Michael Blaszczyk

Michael Blaszczyk (* 1959 in Duisburg ) is a German painter and draftsman .

Life

Born in Duisburg in 1959 as the son of East Prussian and Upper Silesian parents, Michael Blaszczyk took part in exhibitions and art competitions since 1975 before he finished his school career and graduated from the Dinslaken Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in 1980 . In the same year he took up the study of art, art history , the history and archeology at the European Academy of Arts and the University in Trier and received from 1986 until his graduation in 1987, a grant from the European Art Academy.

During his artistic training, Blaszczyk was involved in exhibitions and competitions, including at the European Art Academy in Trier in 1982, at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 1983 and in the Kunst palast Museum in Düsseldorf in 1984 . In 1984 he was awarded the Rheinische Post Art Prize. From 1987 to 1989 Blaszczyk did community service at the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg and increasingly participated in exhibitions in Trier and on the Lower Rhine, as well as in 1988 and 1989 at the Theater Municipal in Luxembourg .

Working as a freelance artist since 1989, Blaszczyk took part in the "5th" and the "6th Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art" in the Convention Center in Toronto in 1990 and 1991 and again in Luxembourg in 1993 and 1994. After establishing the Atelier Tor 1 in Alpen in 1995, Blaszczyk's exhibition activities increasingly shifted to the Lower Rhine, in particular to Alpen, Dinslaken and Xanten , where he also settled in 1999. After participating in exhibitions in Duisburg's Cubus Kunsthalle , in the Kulturpalast in Sofia and in the Kulturpark Kesselhaus in Stuttgart in 2004, a work by Blaszczyk was also on view in the Foreign Office's virtual gallery until the end of 2005 . Since 2004/2005 he has devoted himself increasingly to artistic project work. From 2006 to 2010 he curated the “Open Ateliers” and the “Big Annual Exhibition” for the Verein Stadtkultur Xanten e. V. In 2010 his project "Room to warm up" for the Local Heroes Week of the European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010 in Xanten received a lot of attention. In the same year he coordinated the publication of the first image flyer for the Verein Stadtkultur Xanten e. V. Michael Blaszczyk has been running the gallery in the DreiGiebelHaus in Xanten since 2011, which is located in the building of the former regional museum next to the Xanten Cathedral. In 2013 the Ministry for Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded Michael Blaszczyk the prize “On the way to the youth culture region of North Rhine-Westphalia” for the project “working gallery - Snow White with a difference”, which he carried out in collaboration with the Marienschule Xanten and the gallery in the DreiGiebelHaus in the same year.

In addition, Blaszczyk is a member of the Dinslaken cultural group , the Society for Fine Arts and the European Art Academy in Trier, as well as the Xanten City Culture Association (member of the board since 2007).

literature

• Niederrheinischer Kunstverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Current art in the Wesel district: Michael Blaszczyk (= Weseler Museumsschriften 29). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3792712415 .

Web links

• Michael Blaszczyk's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minister Schäfer awards the "On the Way to Children's and Youth Cultural Land of North Rhine-Westphalia" ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia, November 6, 2013.