Gotthard Bonell

Gotthard Bonell (* 1953 in Truden , South Tyrol ) is an artist , graphic designer and singer . Today he lives and works in Bolzano and Truden.

biography

Gotthard Bonell studied at the St. Ulrich art school and at the art academies of Venice and Milan (Brera), and he also attended summer courses at the international summer academy in Salzburg , where he worked as an assistant in 1980 and 1981. His works are in various private and museum collections. Bonell was a member of the South Tyrolean Provincial Cultural Council for 15 years.

• 1980/81 assistant at the international summer academy in Salzburg
• 1983 Foreign scholarship for Vienna by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1985 Start of singing studies at the Conservatory in Bolzano
• 1997 graphic portfolio (25 etchings for Schubert's "Winterreise") - CD - "Winterreise" with Norman Shetler
• 1988 - 2003 member of the regional cultural advisory board
• 2000 CD and graphic project in collaboration with the Italian pianist Antonio Ballista
• 2002 Together with KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Norman Shetler, GB initiated the “Liedsommer Eppan” and looked after it for many years on behalf of the South Tyrolean Education Center.
• Freelance worker at Rai Suedtirol where he has already designed over ninety programs (“Der Liederabend”).

Prices

• 1984 prize at the Austrian graphics competition
• 1986 Acquisition by the Austrian graphics competition
• 1992 first prize at the “Premio di pittura - G. Sobrile” in Turin
• 1993 First prize from the city of Laives
• Numerous works can be found in museums and public collections.

bibliography

Monographic publications

• 1982: drawings from the military . Text Leonhard Paulmichl, Eva Eccel. Catalog
• 1984: Gotthard Bonell . Catalog Edition Galerie Elefant, with texts by ten South Tyrolean authors
• 1990: Shadow of Life . Eva Eccel, Carl Kraus. Catalog, Tappeiner Verlag, Lana
• 1991: Gotthard Bonell . Catalog. Text: Peter Weiermair Tappeiner Verlag, Lana
• 1993: Wisps . Etchings for F. Schubert's Winterreise , with CD
• 1994: Portraits - ritratti 1973–1994 . Text: Peter Weiermair Tappeiner Verlag, Lana
• 1994: Catalog for the exhibition, Goethegalerie Bozen
• 1999: staging and transformation . Monograph . Text: Peter Weiermair , Andreas Hapkemeyer and Marion Piffer
• 2000: The little things - Le piccole cose with Antonio Ballista, book with CD. Text: Fulvio Vicentini
• 2003: Portraits book. Texts: Claudio Widmann, Giorgio Segato, Fulvio Vicentini
• 2004: skin border book. Texts: Monika Knofler, Marion Piffer Damiani, Peter Weiermair . Folio Publishing House
• 2005: Rituals book. Text: Peter Weiermair . Folio Publishing House
• 2006: Vis-à-vis. Portraits | Ritratti 1973-2005. Book. Text: Andreas Hapkemeyer . Edition Raetia, Bolzano
• 2006: Exhibition catalog Caderzone . Text: Federico Mazonelli, Trentino
• 2014: Vis-à-vis. Portraits | Ritratti 1973-2013. Book. Text: Andreas Hapkemeyer . Edition Raetia, Bolzano
• 2015: Late light . Texts: Günther Oberhollenzer. Folio Verlag, Bozen Vienna
• 2016: Le montagne della luce . Texts: Daniela Ferrari
• 2017: Cardo exhibition at Castle Tyrol (with Roberta Dapunt and Lois Anvidalfarei)

Films about Gotthard Bonell

• 1994: love and evil color . ORF film "Austria Image" by Zeno Braitenberg
• 1997: Film about the winter trip by Traudi Messini and Peter Paul Kainrath. RAI transmitter Bolzano
• 2001: When my pain is silent - a winter trip . Film by Zeno Braitenberg and Josef Ebner. RAI transmitter Bolzano
• 2002: skin border . Tricks, film by Peter Paul Kainrath, ORF Vienna
• 2018: In good company , film portrait about G. Bonell by Michael Seeber

Critical contributions to the work of Gothard Bonell

• 1982: departure . Eva Eccel Kreuzer, Athesia Verlag Bozen
• 1992: Premio nazionale di pittura Giuseppe Sobrile, Torino . Catalog, Rosanna Maggio Serra
• 1992: Positions in an exhibition . Text: Peter Weiermair Edition Per Procura
• 1995: Painting between major and minor . Cover article in the Dolomiten Magazin by Irmgard Flies
• 1997: Form and function of the drawing today . Text: Peter Weiermair , Catalog Art Frankfurt
• 1997: Art without borders . Catalog, text: Gianni Faustini, exhibition Castello Caldes - Trentino
• 1998: 20 portraits of the painter and singer Gotthard Bonell . Wolfgang Pfaundler in Das Fenster , Tyrolean culture magazine No. 66 Innsbruck
• 1998: Ideal and Reality. The image of the body in the art of the XX. Century . Ed .: Peter Weiermair , Rupertinum Salzburg
• 1998: Art Tirol . Exhibition Bruxelles, Magdalena Hörmann
• 1999: Figuration. Catalog book, text: Peter Weiermair and Andreas Hapkemeyer
• 1999: Motives of the silent catalog. Text: Andreas Hapkemeyer and Marion Piffer
• 2000: Text for the exhibition , Walter Fink, ORF Studio Vorarlberg , Dornbirn
• 2000: Dying and death of my parents in Das Fenster , Tyrolean culture magazine No. 70 Innsbruck
• 2000: L'intelligenza della mano . Catalog book "Triennale europea dell'incisione"
• 2001: Desire , catalog book, text: Peter Weiermair
• 2005: Tiroler Spirale , Vienna
• 2005: Art catalog for the Eppan Music Weeks . With Brigitte Fassbaender , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Herbert Rosendorfer , Antonio Ballista and Gotthard Bonell
• 2006: exhibition catalog . Caderzone, Trentino
• 2015: Late light . Text: Günther Oberhollenzer , Vienna / Bozen 2015, Folio Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85256-681-8 .

Exhibitions (selection)

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• Agrigento - Congresso int. Di Studi Pirandelliani
• Lugano / Switzerland (Accademia delle "belle Arti" Brera / Milano)
• Milano Palazzo del Turismo
• Innsbruck Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum
• Bregenz Palais Thurn and Taxis
• Basel Art (Elephant Gallery)
• Munich House of Art ("Great Art Exhibition 1988/89")
• Graz Neue Galerie ("South Tyrolean Culture Weeks")
• Bolzano "Panorama Panorama"
• Innsbruck Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum ("Mozart in Tyrol")
• Bolzano Museum of Modern Art "Positions"
• Torino Mole Antonelliana
• Innsbruck: Gallery "Thurn and Taxis"
• Bologna: Arte fiera 95
• Vienna: Austrian Gallery - Ambrosi Museum
• Frankfurt: Braas Gallery
• 1997 Caldes Castle / Trentino
• 1997 ART - Frankfurt: Form and function of drawing today (Peter Weiermeier)
• 1998 Rupertinum Salzburg: Ideal and Reality, the Image of the Body in the 20th Century.
• 1998 ART - Innsbruck
• 1998 Acquisition by the "Rupertinum" Salzburg State Museum
• 1998 Goldach CH "cross-border commuters"
• 1998 St. Pölten "Motives of Silence"
• 1998 Katzenzungen Castle Prissian "Motifs of Silence"
• 1999 Blicklestiftung Bruchsal "Figuration"
• 2000 Museum Rupertinum Salzburg "Figuration"
• 2001 Museion Bolzano "Figuration"
• 2002 Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna
• 2002 Galleria Isola Trento
• 2003 Ala Palazzo Malfatti Scherer
• 2003 Bolzano Piccola galleria "Self-portraits"
• 2003 Padova
• 2010 Innsbruck Folk Art Museum “Au! Pain"
• 2011 Mezzano TN "Mezzano romantica" etchings (with Antonio Ballista)
• 2011 Schwaz Rabalderhaus "The Self-Portrait"
• 2011 Eppan Lanserhaus "Figure"
• 2011 Bolzano Museion "The Museion Collection"
• 2011 Bolzano Museion "Arsenale"
• 2011 Meran - Museum - "Portraits"
• 2012 Bruneck City Museum - "Between North and South"
• 2012 Neumarkt - "15 Years of the Art Forum"
• 2013 Galerie Meier Innsbruck - Landscapes - A
• 2013 Galerie Detterer - Frankfurt - D
• 2013 Kastelbell Castle - Still life
• 2013 Galleria Goethe Bozen
• 2014 “Natural World Heritage Wadden Sea - Dolomites” Bremerhaven - curator Eva Gratl
• 2015 Bozen- Waaghaus - Suedtiroler Sparkasse- curator Sabine Gamper (catalog)
• 2016 Fiè allo Sciliar - Goethe Gallery Bozen
• 2016 Castellabate - Progetto Sgarbi (catalog)
• 2016 Innsbruck art fair / Milionart (catalog)
• 2016 Innsbruck - Galerie Maier - abstraction
• 2017 Trento - Spazio delle Arti - Disegno
• 2017 Trento - Palazzo Trentini - Collection Dr. Josef Kreuzer (catalog)
• 2017 Sexten - Rudolf Stolz Museum
• 2017 Neumarkt - Kunstforum - self-portraits
• 2017 Trento - Spazio delle Arti - Disegno
• 2017 Bolzano - "Outlook" - Sparkasse
• 2018 Trento - Palazzo Trentini "La noce" (catalog)
• 2018 Innsbruck - Hofburg - Guernica / Icon of Peace (catalog)
• 2018 Kitzbühel / Tyrol - Museum Kitzbühel - Art Landscape Tyrol (Catalog)
• 2018 Cavalese / TN- Museo Arte contemporanea - "La collezione"
• 2019 City Museum Bolzano - "The Rose Garden"
• 2019 Mercantile Building Bolzano - "The Brenner Route"

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• Innsbruck, Landeck, Hall in Tirol, Vienna, Merano, Prösels Castle, Renon Coming, Salzburg, Bad Reichenhall, St. Ulrich, Brixen, Dornbirn, Eisenstadt, Feldkirch, Schaan;
• 1992 Goethe Gallery (Catalog Peter Wieremaier, Frankfurt)
• 1993 Gallery Schiestl Feldkirch
• 1994 Goethe Gallery in Bozen
• 1994 Galerie Prisma Bozen (20 years portrait, catalog Peter Weiermaier)
• 1997 Goethe Gallery Bozen
• 1997 Brunico Graphics Museum
• 1997 Schubertiade Feldkirch Montforthaus
• 1997 St. Gerold - Probstei
• 1998 Lana residence rose garden
• 1998 Moos Castle in Eppan
• 1999 Galerie Thomas Flora Innsbruck
• 1999 ORF radio station Dornbirn
• 2000 Salzburg Galerie Thomas Seywald "Pictures of Twilight"
• 2000 Bozen Goethe Gallery
• 2002 Kupferstichkabinett - Academy of Fine Arts / Vienna - curator Monika Knofler
• 2003 Goethe Gallery in Bozen
• 2003 Gallery Prisma Bozen "Portraits"
• 2003 Moscow - German-Russian Center
• 2003 Gallery Prisma Bozen "Portraits" (catalog)
• 2004 Galerie Seywald - Salzburg
• 2004 Galleria Buonanno Mezzo Lombardo
• 2004 Galerie Thomas Flora - Innsbruck
• 2005 City Theater Bolzano "Meat - Lust and Suffering"
• 2005 Meran Kurhaus "Picture Cycles" - curator Andreas Hapkemeier (catalog)
• 2005 Tyrolean Folk Art Museum Innsbruck "Portraits - Vis a Vis" - curator Herlinde Menardi
• 2007 Telfs / Tirol Thöni Säulenhalle - curator Peter Weiermair
• 2008 Goethe Gallery Bozen "Inside-Outside"
• 2008 Caderzone - Palazzo Lodron - Curator Fulvio Nardelli - Meneghelli
• 2008 German Leather Museum - Offenbach am Main - curator Peter Weiermair
• 2008 Brixen Diocesan Museum - Hofburg “Portraits” - curator Johann Kronbichler
• 2008 Messner Montainmuseum (catalog)
• 2009 Schwaz Rabalderhaus "Zeitblick-Weitblick" - curators Peter Weiermair and Otto Larcher
• 2009 Ridanna Mining Museum
• 2010 Innsbruck Gallery Thomas Flora
• 2011 Innsbruck Gallery Maier
• 2011 Karthaus in Schnalstal "Body things" - Heinrich Schwazer (catalog)
• 2012 Am Schubert Tower Vienna (Project Seeste) - Curator Peter Weiermair (catalog)
• 2012 Husum D - Castle in front of Husum - Curator Uwe Haupenthal (catalog)
• 2013 Goethe Gallery Bozen
• 2013 officina da camera - musica - arte e spazio -Brescia
• 2013 Museo Centro Arte contemporanea - Cavalese Tn - with Lois Anvidalfarei - curator Elio Vanzo (catalog)
• 2013 Brixen City Gallery
• 2014 Kaltern prison gallery - together with Ute Rakob - curator Brigitte Matthias
• 2014 Vienna Gallery Wolfrum
• 2016 Innsbruck - Galerie Maier
• 2016 Trento - Palazzo Trentini - curators Daniela Ferrari (Mart Rovereto) and Gianluigi Rocca - (catalog)
• 2016 Spazio delle Arti -Trento
• 2017 Schloss Tirol - Meran with Roberta Dapunt - Lois Anvidalfarei- curator Leo Andergassen (catalog)
• 2018 Galerie Maier - Innsbruck
• 2019 Lanserhaus Eppan retrospective

Portraits

Many well-known personalities were portrayed by Bonell: Bishop Wilhelm Egger - LH Tirol Alois Partl - LH Tirol Wendelin Weingartner - LH Tirol Herwig van Staa - Mayor of Innsbruck Hilde Zach - Mayor of Lienz Helga Machne - LH of Vorarlberg Martin Purtscher - LH South Tyrol Luis Durnwalder - Minister Lujo Sorrini Toncic - Rector of the University of Innsbruck Rainer Sprung - Rector of the University of Innsbruck Christian Smekal - Abbot / Marienberg Monastery Bruno Trauner - Abbot / Neustift Konrad Lechner - Abbot / Neustift Monastery Georg Untergaßmeier - LR Vorarlberg and President of the Austrian Red Cross Fredy Meier - State Director ORF Vorarlberg Leonhard Paulmichl - Bishop Karl Golser, Hofburg Brixen - Vicar General Dr. Josef Michaeler / BZ- Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Dr. Platter / Vienna - Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Dr. Arnold Wieland / Bozen - Vicar General Dr. Josef Matzneller / Bozen - Dr. Josef Kreuzer / Bozen - Abbot Raimund Schreier / Wilten Abbey Innsbruck.

• 2010 Bonell portrays Pope Benedict XVI on behalf of the Hofburg Bressanone
• 2011 Presentation of the Pope's portrait in the Hofburg Brixen
• 2013 Portrait of Dr. Dieter Karner (President of the Wiener Musikverein) on behalf of the Wiener Musikverein
• 2016 Portrait of Governor Dr. Luis Durnwalder (commissioned by the State of South Tyrol)

Bonell as a singer

Gotthard Bonell is primarily a visual artist. He began his singing studies with Luise Gallmetzer at the Conservatory in Bolzano. He took part in song interpretation courses a. a. with Erik Werba, Ada Zapperi and Norman Shetler and was a member of the Cobochti - Ensemble -Bozen.

• In 1997 he created an etching cycle for Schubert's Winterreise and a CD recording with Norman Shetler at the piano. Further studies with Othmar Trenner.
• 2000 Start of collaboration with Antonio Ballista, joint graphic project and recording of a CD.

Further studies with Prof. Othmar Trenner recitals with the pianists Toni von Walther - Eduard Demetz - Peter Paul Kainrath - Antonio Ballista - Norman Shetler - Othmar Trenner and Charles Spencer. On behalf of the South Tyrolean Education Center, Bonell founded the Song Summer Eppan together with Brigitte Fassbaender and Norman Shetler.

CD recordings

• 1996: winter trip. Gotthard Bonell (baritone), Norman Shetler (piano)
• 2000: Songs by Beethoven, Bellini, Loewe, Schubert. Gotthard Bonell (baritone), Antonio Ballista (piano)
• 2015 book project “Late Light” - curator Günther Oberhollenzer -Wien / CD 12 Schubert songs -G. Bonell baritone / Charles Spencer piano

Web links

• Literature by and about Gotthard Bonell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the artist Gotthard Bonell
• Short interview about the exhibition in the Lanserhaus, Eppan
• Review "skin boundary" , University of Innsbruck
• Review "Vis-à-vis
• Pictures at Art4Public
• Press releases based on Vienna
• Press releases II based on Vienna

Individual evidence