Gerd Sonntag (artist)

Gerd Sonntag (born March 3, 1954 in Weimar ) is a German artist who, in addition to creating paintings and glass works, also published poems.

Life

Gerd Sonntag attended the elementary art school in Jena until 1973 and then began studying at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig . 1980 to 1982 he was a master student at the Academy of Arts with the sculptor Professor Theo Balden . From 1991 to 1996 Gerd Sonntag was managing director and partner of the Berlin IMKABINETT gallery (also: Galerie Im Kabinett GmbH). He was also deputy chairman of the NEUE KULTUR foundation in Berlin. The artist has been working with glass as a material since the mid-1990s and has exhibited at home and abroad.

In addition to his work as a visual artist, Gerd Sonntag published his own poems for the first time in the 1970s. In 2003 his book NOTWEHR on the language of German art criticism was published.

Gerd Sonntag has a daughter.

Works

Texts and poems

• EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. Flesh and spirit in the art scream. The language consumption creating art knowledge based on text examples by the well-known author Christoph Tannert and an unknown critic. (on the language in German art criticism). Ginkgo Park Media Society for Science and Culture, 2003, ISBN 3-932463-20-X .
• The smug in art and the lonely iconoclast of Erfurt . In: Musselhaufen No. 47/48. Viersen 2007. ISSN  0085-3593
• Dead in a corner of the city and other poems . In: Dimension 13.1, 1980, pp. 268-273.

photos

• Waiting , mixed media on paper, 1987, Deutsche Bank Collection
• The Red Boy with the Dog , 140 × 170 cm, oil on hardboard, 1987, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt (Oder)

Typefaces

• Font garden , 150 × 120 cm, oil on canvas, 2003, Augusta Collection 664, Sao Paulo
• Me, life, work, art, luxury , 285 × 220 cm, special paint on metal, 2001, K-PLUS collection, Lünen

Working with glass

• Spaceship Virus, landed , height 65 × 45 × 35 cm, glass 2003, Pedro Hiller Collection, Sao Paulo
• The eye , 47 × 17 × 24 cm, glass, 2004, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris

literature

• Lothar Lang : Berlin Montmartre. Artists from Prenzlauer Berg. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-352-00441-2 .
• Lothar Lang: Book Art and Art History in the 20th Century. Anton Hiersemann , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7772-0510-9 .
• Anne Dräger: The Jacques Mallet Collection. Kerber, Bielefeld-Leipzig-Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-938025-31-X . (English)
• Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany. Faber & Faber , Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 .
• Karla Bilang: IMAGE AND COUNTER-IMAGE - The original in the art of the 20th century. Kohlhammer , Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-17-010834-4 .
• Barbara Klemm; Wilfried Wiegand (Ed.): ARTIST PORTRAITS. Nicolai , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89479-157-8 .

Literature on the glass work

• Janine Bloch-Dermant: Bleu, Grand. In: VERRE CONTEMPORAIN 7, 2006, cataloque Drouot Richelieu, Paris.
• Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland: The blue in the Inca sun. Glass and space creations by Gerd Sonntag. In: Glashaus / glasshouse , Heft 3, 2005, pages 12–13, ISSN  1435-8565 (German / English)
• Janine Bloch-Dermant: Gerd Sonntag, peintre verrier…. In: VERRE CONTEMPORAIN 6, 2005, cataloque Drouot Richelieu, Paris p. 18 ( L'ŒIL ), p. 19 ( Sculpture Jaune ).
• Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland: Sculptures from the furnace, Gerd Sonntag…. In: SPEKTRUM , Schott Magazin, June / July 2005, p. 14.
• Gerrit Prinsen: Gerd Sunday. In: NEW GLASS , spring / 2004, Schott AG, p. 49.
• Helena Horn: Gerd Sonntag - Designing rooms with color and light. In: Glashaus / glasshouse , issue 1/2004, ISSN  1435-8565 , pages 10-11.

Further literature

• Kassandra calls and swan songs, critical pictures and sculptures from the late GDR. Unna 2001, ISBN 3-924210-41-1 .
• De la couleur et du feu. Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris et Musées de Marseille, Édition Musées de Marseille, 2000, ISBN 2-7118-3819-6 .
• Art from the new federal states. Kaiserslautern 1992, ISBN 3-89422-061-9 .
• Mike Hill: Turning Points: East German art in revolution. NCCA, Sunderland 1992, ISBN missing.
• Birgit Lahann: Beloved Zone. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05097-X . (Pp. 225–226)
• The disobedient painters of the GDR. Verlag Europäische Ideen, 1st edition 1979, ISBN 3-87628-164-4 .
• It seems to me that the guy is glazed - poet over painter . Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin (GDR) 1978

International magazine articles

• Klaus Killisch, Gerd Sonntag: East Side / West Side. Report. In: Art in America , The Global Issue, July 1989, (pp. 59–61)
• Grace Glueck: East Germans Art gets a Brooklyn Home. In: The New York Times , Arts
• International magazine for studio glass : Clementine Schack von Wittenau: "Gerd Sonntag or the border to glass madness", The International Magazine of Studio Glass, 4/2013, German edition, pp. 10-11.

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Gerd Sonntag “looked inside once”: Exhibition 2014 at JENOPTIK AG , accessed August 6, 2015.