Peter Dorn (artist)

Installation, "Small container of the standard design", 1992, rented DB roll container. Inner courtyard of the Thon-Dittmer-Palais in Regensburg

Peter Dorn (born February 6, 1938 in Aussig , Czechoslovakia ) is a German graphic and installation artist .

Life

After training as a graphic designer in a Regensburg advertising studio, Peter Dorn studied applied graphics from 1960 to 1963 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Karl Hans Walter . In 1995 he received a scholarship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , USA .

Peter Dorn has lived in Regensburg since 1949 and has been working freelance since 1964 . Dorn is married to the artist Astrid Schröder .

Act

In his works, Dorn deals with the present and the associated search for traces of everyday life.

"Peter Dorn, an artist personality of a" special kind ": reserved, almost silent, his radically conceived, object-like, but also graphic interventions or installations have enriched the art life of the East Bavarian region for years." Herbert Schneidler

"His container installation in the Thon-Dittmer-Hof from last year may have troubled some minds. But today, when art in public space is becoming more and more problematic, it is a solution in which no new values are postulated, but those of the means of transport are illustrated anew before they are returned to their old purpose. As a museum man, I also have respect for someone who would prefer to leave his work at the place of origin in order to create a tension between the place of discovery and the found object. " Veit Loers

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1958 his works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions:

Art and Trade House, Regensburg (1959–60, 1985)
Museum City of Regensburg (1979)
Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg / Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (1981–84, 1991–92 / 2009, 2011)
Large art exhibition: Haus der Kunst , Munich (1982–84, 1988–89, 1994–95)
Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf (1991–92, 1994)
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus , Schwandorf (1989, 2008)
German Poster Museum Essen (1997)
Slovak National Gallery Bratislava / SK (1998)
Diocesan Museum Regensburg (1998)
Art Association Landshut (2010)
Historical Museum, Regensburg (2014)
City Museum Amberg (2017)
Kunstverein Landshut (2018) (together with Astrid Schröder )

Public collections (selection)

Honors (selection)

1979 Culture Promotion Prize of the City of Regensburg
1985 Funding from the Bavarian State Government for artists and publicists
1993 Culture Prize East Bavaria
2010 Gerfried Schellberger Art Prize
2020 Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg

Literature (selection)

Susanna Partsch : Dorn, Peter (1938) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 87.
Peter Dorn, collages and graphics from 1958–1979 , Museum der Stadt Regensburg (publisher), Regensburg 1979.
Peter Dorn, collages and drawings 1980–84 , Kunst und Gewerbehaus Regensburg (ed.), Regensburg 1985.
Peter Dorn, works on paper 1987–89 , Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus / Kebbel Villa Schwandorf (publisher), Schwandorf 1989.
Peter Dorn, works on paper , Galerie Johannes Schilling Cologne (ed.), Cologne 1991.
Peter Dorn, Works 1991-2008 , Kulturreferat der Stadt Regensburg (Ed.), Regensburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-935052-69-6
On the trail of the inconspicuous everyday , Peter Dorn, work 1964–2014, Historisches Museum Regensburg (ed.), Regensburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-943222-14-2

Web links

Professional Association of Visual Artists BBK Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate

The artist has no homepage.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Susanna Partsch : Dorn, Peter (1938) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 87.
^ Herbert Schneidler: Action as a form-forming element. In: On the trail of the inconspicuous everyday, Peter Dorn, work 1964-2014 . Ed .: Historical Museum Regensburg. Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-943222-14-2 , pp. 13 .
^ Veit Loers: Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the East Bavaria Culture Prize in 1993 to Peter Dorn. In: Peter Dorn, works 1991-2008 . Ed .: Cultural Department of the City of Regensburg. Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-935052-69-6 , pp. 12 .
↑ Stadtmuseum Amberg: Stadtmuseum Amberg »detail page. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
^ Kunstverein Landshut eV Retrieved on September 9, 2018 .
^ Peter Dorn - 1st winner of the Gerfried Schellberger Art Prize. Gerfried and Emmi Schellberger - Lifetime Achievement Foundation, 2010.
↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Peter Dorn receives Culture Prize 2020. Accessed on August 22, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dorn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aussig

[AKL-1] Susanna Partsch : Dorn, Peter (1938) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 87.

[2] Herbert Schneidler: Action as a form-forming element. In: On the trail of the inconspicuous everyday, Peter Dorn, work 1964-2014 . Ed .: Historical Museum Regensburg. Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-943222-14-2 , pp. 13 .

[3] Veit Loers: Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the East Bavaria Culture Prize in 1993 to Peter Dorn. In: Peter Dorn, works 1991-2008 . Ed .: Cultural Department of the City of Regensburg. Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-935052-69-6 , pp. 12 .

[4] Stadtmuseum Amberg: Stadtmuseum Amberg »detail page. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .

[5] Kunstverein Landshut eV Retrieved on September 9, 2018 .

[6] Peter Dorn - 1st winner of the Gerfried Schellberger Art Prize. Gerfried and Emmi Schellberger - Lifetime Achievement Foundation, 2010.

[7] Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Peter Dorn receives Culture Prize 2020. Accessed on August 22, 2020 .