David Schnell

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David Schnell (* 1971 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German painter . He lives and works in Leipzig and is considered a representative of the so-called " New Leipzig School ".

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1991, David Schnell studied painting from 1995 to 2000 at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . From 2000 to 2002 he was a master student of Arno Rink and in 2002 co-founder of the Liga producer gallery in Berlin , which was supported by eleven former HGB students, including Christoph Ruckhäberle , Matthias Weischer and Tom Fabritius . As early as 2002, the press formed the term “New Leipzig School” (NLS) for the exhibitions of this heterogeneous group of artists. The producer gallery league disbanded in 2004 after two years of existence. He was also a musician.

In 2001 Schnell received the Saxon State Scholarship. In 2009 he designed the so-called Peace Window of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig . In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo Rome . In 2016 he was commissioned to design the church windows for the Christ Church in Cologne. Schnell has been working at the Alte Handelsschule since 2018 .

exhibition

literature

  • David Schnell. Hour / Hour / Uur. Hatje Cantz, Westfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2129-5 .
  • Sophie Wojtyschak: David Schnell and his constructed landscapes: An art-historical analysis of the central aspect in the oeuvre of the Leipzig artist. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-639-34748-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ League gallery website
  2. ↑ Melanie Jordan, Malcolm Miles: Art and theory after socialism. Intellekt Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84150-211-3 , pp. 16 f.
  3. ↑ Saxon State Scholarship.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ,.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cgi.eigen-art.com  
  4. ^ Peace window in Leipzig Thomaskirche reminds of 1989. Leipziger Volkszeitung
  5. ↑ Entry on the website of Villa Massimo ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de
  6. ↑ Engelbert Broich: David Schnell designed the new windows of the converted Christ Church in the city garden. Article on kirche-koeln from April 27, 2016. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2017 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 / www.kirche-koeln.de
  7. ↑ Dominic Röltgen: Christ Church A Bridge to Transcendence. Kölnische Rundschau .

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personal data
SURNAME Quick, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach