Jürgen Schön (artist)

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Jürgen Schön (born November 14, 1956 in Riesa ) is a German sculptor .

Jürgen Schön: Kunstverein Mannheim

Life

In the period from 1975 to 1979 he completed an apprenticeship as a stone mason and stone sculptor . He then studied sculpture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1979 to 1986 . Then worked as a freelancer in Dresden. From 1990 to 1991 he studied at the HdK Berlin with Lothar Fischer. In 1996 he received a teaching position at the HfBK Dresden. Schön lived in Dresden until 2019 and has been a member of the visual arts class at the Saxon Academy of the Arts since 2002 . Objects have been made from paper and cardboard since 1989. The field of work includes objects, drawings, installations, minimalist and purist forms.

Jürgen Schön is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Berlin.

Awards

  • 1989: Working grant in Berlin
  • 1991: Grant from the Vordemberge Gildewart Foundation
  • 1992: Scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Villa Serpentara Olevano Romano
  • 1995: Scholarship from the Berlin Cultural Fund
  • 2001: Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 2002: Promotion Prize of the City of Dresden
  • 2005: Mannheim Board of Trustees Prize for Sculpture

literature

  • Gert Pinzer, Elisabeth Heinrich (texts): Dresdner Kleinplastik. Collection of the Office for Fine Arts, Council of the District of Dresden. 1945-1987. Office for Fine Arts of the Dresden District Council, Dresden 1988, pp. 64–65.
  • Werner Meyer, Jürgen Schön, Pars pro toto , Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen 2003 catalog, ISBN 3-927791-49-0
  • Wolfgang Holler, Claudia Schnitzer (ed.): World views. Masterpieces of drawing, graphics and photography, copper engraving. Cabinet Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, April 25 to July 18, 2004, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, ISBN 3-422-06452-4
  • Michael Semff , Andreas Strobl (ed.): The presence of the line. A selection of recent acquisitions of the 20th and 21st centuries from the State Graphic Collection Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne March 19 to June 21, 2009, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-927803-46-6
  • Ulrich Bischoff , Moritz Woelk (ed.): The new Albertinum, art from romanticism to the present. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2010 Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, ISBN 978-3-422-06994-7
  • Sculpture Collection (Ed.): Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Jürgen Schön, drawings in the Albertinum. Archive Verlag DJM 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809255-9-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  2. ^ Archive University of the Arts Berlin | HdK Berlin
  3. ^ Saxon Academy of Arts: Jürgen Schön. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  4. kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Jürgen Schön (accessed on January 29, 2016)