David D. Stern

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David D. Stern (born February 3, 1956 in Essen ) is a German painter living in New York who uses free, sweeping swings of viscous oil paint to build complex surfaces that represent the multi-layered experiences of an increasingly globalized world. Stern dedicates his main work to abstract figurative representation.

Stern has described himself as an "action painter", referring to the artistic legacy of the painters of the New York School Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline . His portrait painting is based on historical portraits, but his painting is freed from a superficial recognition intention, but uses the play of colors of a face or a scene as a template for a colorful frenzy of abstraction, which apparently by chance conveys the connection to the template again in its completion.

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a sign painter, Stern attended the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences for Design and Art (1975–79) and the Düsseldorf Art Academy (1980–82). Subsequently, he taught painting at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences for Design and Art, while living in a village near Münster, where he developed his painting skills.

In 1986 he moved to Cologne , where he developed his artistic language and gained national and international attention with exhibitions in Austria , Hungary , the Netherlands , Belgium and England . The Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest) showed Stern's exhibition David Stern: Study for a Path in 1992 as the first exhibition by a contemporary Western artist after the opening of Hungary.

In 1993 Stern showed his work for the first time in the USA and immigrated in 1994. Since his arrival in New York he has been fascinated by the energy, intensity, fast pace and cosmopolitanism of the city. His US touring exhibition David Stern: The American Years (1995–2008) , conceived by Karen Wilkin, demonstrated the changes in form and content that this move triggered.

Stern has exhibited in New York City, the United States, and Europe. His works are in public and private collections in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett , the Polish National Museum (Poznań), the Dresdner Bank (Cologne), the University's art collection Goettingen and Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock), the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida), the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida) and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum (New York) .

September 11, 2001

Stern's painting The Gatherings are powerful monuments of collective mourning after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 . The paintings can be seen in the collection of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York.

Portraits

Throughout his career, David Stern has created portraits - portraits of those around him and always self-portraits - and always in the same almost life-size format based on drawings made in front of the model. In addition to family members, he painted portraits of friends such as the philosopher Günther Anders (1986/90) and Abraham Ehrlich (1990), the saxophonist Matze Schubert (1988), the artist Emil B. Hartwig (1990), Al Hansen (1993), Marvin Hayes , Frank Bara (2001/02) and William Wegman (2008), football player Willis Crenshaw, diplomats Berel Rodal (2002/03) and Ronald Fagan (1999), poet and screenwriter Jeremy Larner (1999), actress and therapist Doe Lang (2011/12) or the art critic and curator Karen Wilkin (1999).

Digital drawings

Stern has been creating digital drawings since the first iPhone drawing apps were created. His thoughts on the nature and practice of digital drawing were published in 2013. In the same year he published the artist's book heros and graces 21 years after the publication of the erotic nature of truth with the philosopher Abraham Ehrlich (among others in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ). It is a meditation on sexuality and is based on digital drawings.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justus Bierich and Cornel Wachter (eds.): David Stern: Study for a way / Tanulmany egy utrol / Study for a way 1987–1992. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1992, with contributions by Lorand Bereczky, Werner Schmalenbach, Karl Arndt, Avraham Ehrlich and Jürgen Kisters, Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna 1992
  2. ↑ Karen Wilkin and Lance Esplund: David Stern: The American Years (1995-2008) . New York: Yeshiva University Museum (2008/2009); Tulsa, OK: Alexandre Hogue Gallery (2008); Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix College (2010); Charleston, SC: William Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (2010), ISBN 978-0-615-21645-4
  3. ↑ Monica Strauss: Revisiting those stunned evenings. Construction, September 2002
  4. ↑ David Stern talks about "The Gatherings" ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / video.google.com
  5. ↑ http://registry.national911memorial.org/view_artist.php?aid=110 >
  6. ↑ http://www.davidstern.us/drawings/Pages/touch_screen_drawings1.html >
  7. ↑ http://www.davidstern.us/essay_on_drawing.html >
  8. ↑ http://www.blurb.com/b/4234682-david-stern-heros-and-graces >

Literature and Sources

  • David Stern: In the Beginning was a Drawing… (Thoughts on Drawing and Binary Code) . Chapter 14: Black and White Magic by David Stern, New York, USA. In: David Scott Leibowitz: Mobile Digital Art. Using the iPad and iPhone as Creative Tools. 2013, ISBN 0240825020 , ISBN 978-0240825021
  • Star of David: heros and graces. New York 2013
  • Thomas Ketelsen: Skypieces or "Epiphanies of Chance". David Stern's New York sketchbook in the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett . In: Nina C. Illgen, Martin Roth : Dresden - New York: in honor of the 90th birthday of Henry H. Arnhold . German Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011
  • Karen Wilkin and Lance Esplund: David Stern: The American Years (1995-2008). New York: Yeshiva University Museum (2008/2009); Tulsa, OK: Alexandre Hogue Gallery (2008); Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix College (2010); Charleston, SC: William Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (2010), ISBN 978-0-615-21645-4
  • Teel Sale and Claudia Betti: Drawing. A contemporary approach. 4th edition, Belmont, CA 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-501580-7 , p. 34, no.2.12
  • Lonnie Pierson Dunbier (Ed.): The Artists Bluebook. 34,000 North American Artists. 16th Century to March 2005. Scottsdale, AZ 2005, p. 479
  • Karen Wilkin and Mitchell Cohen: David Stern: Recent Paintings. Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York 1999
  • Marc Scheps and Ori Z. Soltes: David Stern: Identity and Relationship. National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC 1994
  • Justus Bierich and Cornel Wachter (eds.): David Stern: Study for a way / Tanulmany egy utrol / Study for a way 1987–1992. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1992, with contributions by Lorand Bereczky, Werner Schmalenbach, Karl Arndt, Avraham Ehrlich and Jürgen Kisters, Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna 1992
  • Karl Arndt and Gudrun Meyer: David Stern: Painting. Art collection of the University of Göttingen, Göttingen 1992

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personal data
SURNAME Stern, David D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , Germany