Douglas Swan
Douglas Litterick Swan (born 1930 in New Britain , Connecticut , † June 7, 2000 in Bonn ) was a US-born painter of Scottish descent.
Vita
Swan was born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1930 to Scottish immigrants. In 1936 he moved to Scotland with his family.
Swan studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee and with William Scott in London. There he also attended the Trinity College of Music . In 1966 he began to incorporate the third dimension into his work with his “object painting”. In 1967 he had his first exhibition in Germany in the Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum .
After this exhibition he moved to Germany, Douglas Swan had lived in Bonn since the 1970s. Since 1980 he has had his studio at the laboratory equipment manufacturer C. Gerhardt GmbH & Co. KG (named after Carl Heinrich Gerhardt ) on Bornheimer Strasse, whose management is the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the painter August Macke . In 1986 he received an art grant from the city of Bonn. Douglas Swan has also received scholarships from the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the British Council and the Italian government to study in Rome and Milan. On June 7, 2000, he died as a result of a traffic accident.
In 2002, the Bochum Museum took over a collection of works from the estate as a foundation.
Prices
- 1997: August Macke Medal
Works in public collections
- Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh
- Bochum Museum
- Museu de Arte Contemporanea , Sao Paulo
- Municipal art collection , Gelsenkirchen
- Museum Haus Kley , Dortmund
- Art museums Krefeld
- Hedendaagse Kunst , Utrecht
- Power Gallery of Contemporary Art , Sidney
- National Gallery , Berlin
- West German casino , Bad Oeynhausen
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- Bottrop square
- The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum, Swansea , Wales
- Rheinisches Landesmuseum , Bonn
- Kunsthaus Grenchen , Grenchen , Switzerland
- City of Bonn
- Swiss Museum of Transport , Lucerne
Web links
- Douglas Swan at artfacts.net
- Douglas Swan Foundation
- whitfordfineart.com: Biography of Douglas Swan (accessed December 18, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ grenchen.ch: 1,2,2 Donations: Irène Bäumler: Douglas Swan, Peter Wullimann (p. 159) (PDF file; accessed on December 18, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swan, Douglas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swan, Douglas Litterick (full maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Britain , Connecticut, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2000 |
| Place of death | Bonn |