Norbert Schwontkowski

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Norbert Schwontkowski (born April 29, 1949 in Bremen-Blumenthal , † June 14, 2013 in Bremen ) was a German painter .

Life

Schwontkowski studied free painting from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Design in Bremen and at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg . In 1973 he had his first solo exhibition at the Böttcherstraße art show in Bremen. In 1974 he was involved in the exhibition 20 Bremer in the Kunsthalle Bremen . He has participated in several group and solo exhibitions in New Zealand, the Netherlands and Italy. In 1994 he was awarded the Bremen Art Prize together with Andreas Slominski . In the same year he received the Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts . He is now one of those contemporary German painters whose work is also attracting attention in the international art scene. His paintings and other works can be found in several private and public collections at home and abroad. In 2003 Norbert Schwontkowski was one of the more than 100 new members of the German Association of Artists over the past four years . Forty new members were given an exhibition opportunity in Bonn's Bundeskunsthalle (on the occasion of the club's centenary) ; including Harald Naegeli , Bjørn Melhus and Susanne Weirich . After Schwontkowski had already lectured in Bremen and Greifswald as well as a visiting professorship in Braunschweig, a professorship for painting followed in 2005 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, which he resigned in 2009.

Schwontkowski's mostly figurative subjects play with the unconscious and the surreal, his figures and motifs, which are put into the picture with a variety of painterly means, often float in wide, undefined spaces.

Exhibitions

  • 2019: Norbert Schwontkowski. Some of My Secrets , Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 2017: Norbert Schwontkowsky, Laughing in Death's Face , Museum Goch ; then in the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 2014: Norbert Schwontkowski. Pictures from the estate , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2013: Norbert Schwontkowski. That I was a painter. , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 2013: The Inner Architecture of Painting , Kolumba Museum , Cologne
  • 2013: Blind Man's Faith , Hamburger Kunstverein
  • 2010: Love of life and dance of death , Kunsthalle Krems ; Steppin 'Out , Kunsthalle Kiel
  • 2010: Dirty , Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
  • 2009: Decision of the Hand , Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 2009: Ångstrœm , Mitchell Innes & Nash Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2009: New Pictures , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2008: Good Year . Haas Gallery, Zurich.
  • 2008: Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel) , Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
  • 2007: Norbert Schwontkowski , Stadtgalerie Schwaz
  • 2007: My face in my next life , Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2007: Works on paper , Gallery at the Stone Cross, Bremen
  • 2006: 4th Berlin Biennale , curated by Maurizio Cattelan , Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick
  • 2006: Goethe downwards - German boys etc. , Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
  • 2006: Vertigo , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2005: Project Room: Norbert Schwontkowski , The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
  • 2005: Bossa Nova , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2004: Cinema , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 2003: Herbarium of Views , Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
  • 2003: The Blumenthal Patterns , MUKA Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2003: Broken China , producers' gallery, Hamburg
  • 2000: Cabinet of Drawings , Kunstverein Düsseldorf (also Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart and Kunstverein Lingen)
  • 1993: Painting , Kunsthalle Bremerhaven

literature

  • Schwontkowski, Slominski: Art Prize of the State of Bremen 1994 . Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-928761-24-2 .
  • Susanne Pfeffer (text): Norbert Schwontkowski: Vertigo . English version. König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-931355-38-8 .
  • Reiner Speck , Gerhard Theewen (Ed.): Norbert Schwontkowski: Hotel. édition séparée No. 49, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-932189-49-4 .
  • Andreas Kreul (Ed.): Norbert Schwontkowski: Kino. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89770-231-2 .
  • Eva Schmidt (Ed.): Norbert Schwontkowski: Flos. Salon Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89770-012-3 .
  • Nora Schattauer (Hrsg.): Draw: Booklets for contemporary drawing. Volume 5: Norbert Schwontkowski. Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86895-230-8 .
  • Norbert Schwontkowski presents: Roberto Bazlen: The captain . Edition Ex Libris No. 12, Salon Verlag, Cologne ISBN 978-3-89770-942-3 .
  • Norbert Schwontkowski: Thinking about a dead horse . Salon Verlag, Cologne ISBN 978-3-89770-436-7 .
  • Jörg Heiser: Steep template for the motif. The painter Norbert Schwontkowski has died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Feuilleton, No. 140, Thursday, June 20, 2013, HF2 p. 11.
  • Kolja Reichert: Wherever the color took him. Discovery in Goch : Norbert Schwontkowski's enchanting painting proves that the true expert reveals himself not in the heroic gesture, but in their undermining. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Feuilleton, No. 186, Saturday, August 12, 2017, p. 9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: exhibitions since 1950/2003 / Herbarium der Blick. New entries in the German Association of Artists ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on June 12, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Information from Norbert Schwontkowski. Some of My Secrets. October 31, 2019 - February 16, 2020. In: Kunstmuseum Bonn . Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kolja Reichert : 'Where the color carried him' . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 12, 2017, page 9
  4. ↑ Page of the museum on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Schwontkowski, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen-Blumenthal
DATE OF DEATH 14th of June 2013
Place of death Bremen-Blumenthal