Julian Schnabel

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Julian Schnabel at the Hamptons International Film Festival (2010)

Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951 in New York City , New York ) is an American painter and film director .

life and work

The son of Jewish parents - his father was a successful businessman - grew up in Brooklyn . In 1965 his family, which also includes two older siblings, moved to Brownsville , Texas . After moving to the rural area, Schnabel began to suffer from loneliness, sought solace in painting and spent the summer of 1969 in San Francisco .

Schnabel studied at the University of Houston in Texas from 1969 to 1973 . In 1973 and 1974 he attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum in New York. In 1976 he worked as a cook in "Mickey Ruskin's Ocean Club Restaurant", from 1976 to 1979 he spent longer stays in Italy , France and Spain , and in 1978 in Germany too .

He is considered to be one of the main representatives of Neo-Expressionism / New Image Painting . Many of his works are painted on uneven surfaces of broken glass or porcelain. His painting Ahab has been hanging in the foyer of the Opernturm in Frankfurt am Main since 2010 . It is painted on a surface twelve meters high and thirteen meters wide from used canvas and shows a blood-stained black whale and a stylized white swan, reversals of technical terms from the financial world: white whale and black swan .

Schnabel has u. a. also designed the covers of the albums The Raven by Lou Reed and By the Way by the band Red Hot Chili Peppers . The latter depicts his daughter Stella, who at the time had a relationship with the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante .

In 1995 Schnabel presented his own album called Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud , in which the musicians Bill Laswell , Buckethead , Bernie Worrell and Nicky Skopelitis took part.

Since the mid-1990s, Schnabel has also directed several movies. In 1996 he realized Basquiat , a biography about the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat , portrayed by Jeffrey Wright . Before Night Falls (2000) followed four years later . The Spanish actor Javier Bardem slipped into the role of Reinaldo Arenas and received an Oscar nomination for it. This was followed in 2007 with a portrait of Jean-Dominique Bauby , the former editor of the French Elle , with butterfly and diving bell , who suffered a stroke in 1995 at the age of 43 that paralyzed almost his entire body. The award-winning French actor and director Mathieu Amalric played the leading role after the American Johnny Depp had previously been traded as an actor. The film was represented in the competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and brought Schnabel the directing award . In 2008 he also received the Golden Globe Award for best director and for best foreign language film for this work .

Schnabel with his partner Rula Jebreal (left) and the Miral leading actress Freida Pinto (2010)

Julian Schnabel was in a relationship with the 21 years younger Palestinian-Italian journalist and writer Rula Jebreal , whose semi-autobiographical novel La strada dei fiori di Miral (2004) he filmed in 2010 under the title Miral . The fictional film, on which Jebreal also worked on the script, focuses on a young girl from the Dar Al Tifl orphanage in Jerusalem (played by Freida Pinto ), who later learns about the resistance of the Palestinian people as a teacher . He has been in a relationship with model Lykke May Andersen since 2012 . Andersen had a son in 2013. Schnabel's two marriages and his relationship resulted in six children. He owns houses in New York and Spain, including a former New York perfume factory that he had converted into a Venetian palace called Palazzo Chupi .

His son is Vito Schnabel , also an art dealer and ex-boyfriend of Heidi Klum .

In the documentary film Julian Schnabel - A Private Portrait by the director Pappi Corsicato from 2017, painter Julian Schnabel explains about his artistic work: “ I have been painting outdoors since 1979. I enjoy working outside. At the beginning it bothered me when the wind knocked over a picture or blades of grass got stuck in the wax. But then I realized that the benefits outweigh the rest. You can see the pictures from a distance and at different times of the day. It's wonderful to be outside and see the sky. You can see his work in bad and good weather. If you paint a picture outside, it always looks good inside too. "

Filmography

Fonts

literature

Web links

Commons : Julian Schnabel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See Schulz-Ojala, Jan: Who is Johnny Marco? at tagesspiegel.de, September 3, 2010 (accessed September 4, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b cf. Julian Schnabel . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2008 from May 20, 2008, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 24/2010 (accessed on September 4, 2010 via Munzinger Online )
  3. ↑ Discogs : Illustration of the cover of The Raven
  4. ↑ Discogs : Illustration of the cover of By the Way
  5. ↑ cf. Dupont, Joan: A provocateur's stamp on French film . In: The International Herald Tribune, March 31, 2006, Feature, p. 10
  6. ↑ cf. Kniebe, Tobias: Contempt disguised as adoration at sueddeutsche.de, September 3, 2010 (accessed September 4, 2010)
  7. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/panorama/haben/julian-schnabel-mit-victorias-secret-model-verlobt-id7318377 html
  8. ↑ Julian Schnabel, Fiancee May Andersen Welcome Baby Boy . In: Us Weekly . July 11, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Heidi Klum's new lover - Vito Schnabel's famous women. Southgerman newspaper
  10. ^ Documentary Julian Schnabel - A Private Portrait , directed by Pappi Corsicato , 84 minutes, 2017, produced by Buena Onda and Rai Cinema
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States