Piotr Sonnewend
Piotr Sonnewend (* 1953 in Poznań , Poland ) is a Polish draftsman, graphic artist and set designer.
Life
Sonnewend studied painting, graphics and sculpture at the Poznań Art Academy from 1973 to 1979 and completed an internship in the stage design department at the Szajna Theater in Warsaw. In 1979 he received his diploma in lithography and drawing. In 1981 he decided to move to the Federal Republic of Germany, initially living in Berlin, then in Schöppingen and since 1997 in Legden .
His works have been shown at exhibitions a. a. shown in Berlin, Poznan, Warsaw, Krakow, Sofia and Liège . Since 1981 he has been exhibiting increasingly in West Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.
Sonnewend works as a set designer and stages performances. He is a permanent visiting professor for drawing, lithography and stage design at the Art Academy in Poznan and Danzig. He had lectureships at the University of Paderborn and at the Free Art Academy Essen and led art student projects at the art academy aki - Enschede / Netherlands and IBKK Bochum. Works by him are in public collections (National Museums in Poznan, Brussels) and municipal galleries, sculptures and objects in Schöppingen, Heek-Nienborg and Ahaus (Kunstroute).
His artistic interests focus on drawings and lithography, stage design and performance. In his two-dimensional works, using the specific properties of material and technology, he develops richly differentiated image areas of the finest graphic structures and monochrome colors.
Awards
- Prize of the Polish Minister of Culture for graphic works of the best art students in Poland , Poznań 1976
- Wroniecki Prize for Drawing, Poznań 1980
- Prize of the Wolfgang Borchert Theater for the best stage design in Münster 1990
- Annual graphics edition - Aldegrever Gesellschaft, Münster 2005
- Large art exhibition in Halle, Audience Award Kunsthalle Villa Kobe , Halle an der Saale 2007
Web links
- Vita on the website of the Free Art Academy Augsburg
- Vita on the website of the IBKK Bochum
- Monochrome drawing , Edition M Fischer Verlag
- Homepage of Piotr Sonnewend
- Literature by and about Piotr Sonnewend in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Great art exhibition in Halle (Saale), catalog 2007
- ^ Catalog for the Great Art Exhibition 2008, foreword by the Board of Directors
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Solstice, Piotr |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish draftsman, graphic artist and set designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Poznań |