Nils Burwitz
Nils Burwitz (* 1940 in Swinoujscie ) is a German painter.
Life
In 1945 Burwitz and his family had to flee to West Germany . In 1958 he emigrated to South Africa with his family . There he finished his school education and received his doctorate in 1963 from the Witwatersrand University as a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts. With the help of a scholarship , he studied in England , Switzerland and Salzburg . In Salzburg he attended a course in lithography at Oskar Kokoschka's School of Seeing. He returned to South Africa and taught at Witwatersrand University, at Dorkey House in Johannesburg and in Soweto . In South Africa he campaigned against the apartheid regime.
In 1976 he moved with his wife Maria and three children to Valldemossa on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca. In addition to watercolors, he created frescoes and oil paintings. Burwitz also created leaded glass windows , which are mainly found in churches on Mallorca.
His works have been purchased by various renowned institutions, including the Albertina Vienna, the Albertinum Dresden, the libraries of the cities of Boston, Buffalo and New York, the Congress Library in Washington, the Kunsthalle Hamburg , the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the National Museum Warsaw, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the British Museum and the Albert Museum in London.
He volunteers for blood donation .
Awards
His works have received awards in Brazil , England, France , Ireland , Japan , South Africa, Spain and the USA .
During the XI. In 1975 he was awarded the Art Critic's Prize in Laibach , Germany. In 1981 he received the Prix de la Ville de Monaco in Monte Carlo and in 1982 the first prize in Ciutat de Palma . In 1987 he received a special award at the 2nd Barcelona Biennale. In 1995 he won first prize in the Premio nacional de acuarela guarro casas . In 1999 he was elected the first European in the Balearic Islands. Further awards followed in 2003 with the Premio diario de Mallorca and in 2004 with the Premi populars - obispo teodor ubeda.
Works (selection)
- Leaded glass window in the Anglican Church of St. James and St. Philip in Palma de Mallorca, 1991
- Leaded glass window in Santa Eulalia, 1993
- Leaded glass window in the rose window for the Lluc monastery , 1994
- three documentaries with Joachim Schroeder about South Africa and Namibia , 1996
- Leaded glass window in the Ermita de la Santissima Trinitat in Valldemossa, 1997
- Leaded glass window in Sant Pere i Sant Pau de Algaida, 1999
- Lead glass windows in the Consolat de Mar , the seat of government in Palma de Mallorca, 1999
- Lead glass window in the Ergoline training center in Windhagen , 1999
- Leaded glass windows in East Worldham , 2001
- three posters for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Leaded glass window in the Royal Carthusian Monastery in Valldemossa, 2004
- Leaded glass window in the Cura monastery , 2005
- Corten steel group on the Plaze de la Concordia in Sa Pobla , 2005
- Einstein Legacy poster, 2005
- Glass dome in the Castillo Hotel Son Vida in Palma de Mallorca, 2006
literature
- Axel Thorer, Mallorca - Lexicon of island secrets , Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 50 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burwitz, Nils |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swinoujscie |