Michael Schwill

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Michael Schwill (born May 11, 1962 in Genthin ) is a German painter .

Life

Michael Schwill was born in 1962 as the son of the agricultural engineer Georg Schwill and the employee Siglinde Schwill. He has an older and a younger brother and a younger sister.

After graduating from high school and completing his military service, Michael Schwill completed adult training as a lathe operator in Magdeburg from 1982 to 1984. During this time he found his drawing teacher Wilhelm Paulke in Magdeburg. At the district culture academy in Magdeburg he completed the special school for directors in visual folk art from 1985 to 1987 and, at the same time, an evening course at the college for graphic and book art in Leipzig. From 1987 to 1989 he studied painting at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle and then moved to Dresden in 1989 to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . His most important teachers there were Elke Hopfe , Hubertus Giebe and Siegfried Klotz . At the HfBK he graduated in 1993 as a painter and graphic artist with Claus Weidensdorfer and Horst Leifer.

From 1995 to 1997 there were presentations of his painting in the Galerie Mitte Dresden with Karin Weber under the direction of Philip Morris Art Funding. From 2003 to 2014 Michael Schwill was represented by the Sybille Nütt gallery in Dresden. Michael Schwill has been painting watercolors since 2016. He lives and works in Dresden.

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Michael Schwill paints his panels with various oil painting techniques . He lets the subjects of his pictures arise from the memory of his personal story in the painting process that is characteristic of him. Sometimes his painting appears so abstract that the everyday dominance of the human form fades into the background. Even if the central human themes of his compositions seem to disappear in the glow of the colors, the human presence remains visible. The disappearance of things can be described as one of the most important aspects of his oil paintings. In his watercolors and drawings, the painter delves into the perception of everyday things. He paints still lifes, flowers, landscapes and portraits with a hauntingly colored presence.

Exhibitions

Michael Schwill has exhibited his paintings in personal and group exhibitions since 1987 in public spaces such as art associations, galleries, collections, salons and at trade fairs. The most important exhibitions:

  • 1987 Student Club of the Technical University of Magdeburg
  • 1990–93 Spring Salon HfBK Dresden (group exhibitions)
  • 1991 Exhibition in the Galerie Süd in Magdeburg
  • 1992 "The 4th year of study at the HfBK Dresden", exhibition in the Villa Oppenheim Berlin
  • 1993 Diploma exhibition at the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • 1995 “From and to Gipsberg” in the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen
  • 1995 "Blueprint" in the Galerie Mitte Dresden
  • 2000 "5th Bautzen Autumn Salon "at the Art Association Bautzen (group exhibition)
  • 2002 "Observer on two posts" Art Association Bautzen
  • 2003 "Self-Operation" Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists Saxony
  • 2004 “The Mandarin” in the gallery Sybille Nütt Dresden
  • 2005 “Two Same - Three Same”, Kunstverein Löbau
  • 2006 "Green Cloud - Blue Ribbon" in the KV Freital revenue house with Christiane Latendorf
  • 2007 "Halbe Halbe", Saxon State Medical Association Dresden
  • 2008 Rosementis Bautzen
  • 2010 “Who dreams who” in the gallery Sybille Nütt Dresden, laudation by Heinz Weißflog
  • 2010 “Drumming Curves” with Christiane Latendorf in Haus Schulenburg Gera , laudation by Kathrin Lahl, video documentation of the exhibition
  • 2011 participation in the " Art Karlsruhe " trade fair
  • 2011 "... as romantic as possible" 11th Bautzen Autumn Salon at the Art Association Bautzen (group exhibition)
  • 2012 participation in the "Art Karlsruhe" trade fair
  • 2013 participation in the "Art Karlsruhe" trade fair
  • 2013 Galerie Interart, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands (group exhibition)
  • 2015 “The double pyramid” in the Opfikon gallery in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, with Christiane Latendorf
  • 2016 "Into the Blue Eternal Green" in the gallery Ines Schulz in Dresden with Christiane Latendorf, laudation Dr. Jördis Lademann
  • 2019 “The big party” anniversary exhibition 40 years of Galerie Mitte Dresden, 35 years of Karin Weber, greeting Annekatrin Klepsch, Mayor of Dresden (group exhibition)
  • 2019 "Garden and Landscape" anniversary exhibition 250 years of gardens and parks at Reinhardtsgrimma Castle, laudation Dr. Jördis Lademann (group exhibition)

Art in public space

Awards, grants

Catalogs

  • 1992 Catalog for the exhibition "The 4th Year of Studies at the HfBK Dresden" in the Villa Oppenheim Berlin
  • 1995 "Four in Dresden" Philip Morris Art Funding, together with the scholarship holders Maik Wolf, Nicolai Angelov and Roland Boden
  • 2000 "5th Bautzener Herstsalon “Kunstverein Bautzen eV
  • 2000 "Acquired" inventory catalog of the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony
  • 2004 “Der Mandarin” catalog for the personal exhibition Galerie Sybille Nütt with a foreword by Sybille Nütt, a text by the artist and two poems by Octavio Paz

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schwill, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Genthin