Sebastian Meschenmoser

Sebastian Meschenmoser (* 1980 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German artist, illustrator and children's book author .

life and work

In 2001, Sebastian Meschenmoser began studying fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz with Klaus Vogelgesang and Anne Berning. After a year of study at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Dijon , Meschenmoser switched to Anne Berning's master class in 2006. In 2007 he received his diploma in fine arts from Anne Berning at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz. Sebastian Meschenmoser has lived and worked in Berlin since 2008.

Works

Books

• On the Wolf Who Set Out to Teach Fear , 2018, ISBN 978-3-522-45897-9
• The Wind in the Willows , 2017, ISBN 978-3-314-10403-9
• Seven Little Goats , 2017, ISBN 978-3-522-45857-3
• Little Red Riding Hood , 2016, ISBN 978-3-522-45827-6
• Mr. Eichhorn and the King of the Forest , 2015, ISBN 978-3-522-43800-1
• Gordon and Tapir , 2014, ISBN 978-3-480-23189-8
• The Lori Plump case , 2013, ISBN 978-3480230723
• Mr. Eichhorn and the visitor from the blue planet , 2012, ISBN 978-3480228836
• Pug Man's Magical Wonder Wool , 2011
• Mr. Eichhorn knows the way to happiness , 2009, ISBN 978-3522458054
• 3 wishes for pug man , 2008
• Mr. Eichhorn and the first snow , 2007, ISBN 978-3522458047
• Mr. Eichhorn and the Moon , 2006, ISBN 978-3522458238
• Learning to fly , 2005, ISBN 978-3522458283

Image cycles

Wherever is a 14-part picture cycle that was first exhibited in Frankfurt am Main in 2009. These are paintings that revolve around the subject of animals in many different ways.

Animals represent a recurring thematic focus in Meschenmoser's oeuvre, for example in series such as Selenit and Selenit II , for which the artist studied in detail the behavior and movement of various living beings. Influenced by visits to the zoo, Sebastian Meschenmoser's series Wherever shows the observer the ambivalence of wild animals in an artificial and man-made environment. In this way, the contemporary works also enable classic art-historical references to works by painters such as Hieronymus Bosch or the inventor of the diorama, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre .

In 2007 the work cycle of Selenit was created. whose title is based on the characters of the moon inhabitants from Jules Verne's novels De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune (1867). In line with this, Meschenmoser's painting shows astronauts, great apes and robots in blurred, bright colors, which position themselves in front of dark backgrounds.

20,000 Miles is the 2006 series of works inspired by Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . You can see children, sea creatures and people underwater in surreal compositions. The figures are shown very realistically, whereas the background is painted abstract and seems to be almost disappearing.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2017 Sebastian Meschenmoser , Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
• 2016 No wild animal - creatures and stories of Mr. Meschenmoser , LesArt , Berlin
• 2016 Showdown , Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main
• 2015 Höhenrausch , art association in the Bad Gastein power plant, Bad Gastein
• 2014 Patt , Greulich Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Portal, Kunstverein im Kraftwerk Bad Gastein, Bad Gastein, Emy Roeder Prize , Ludwigshafen Art Association , Ludwigshafen
• 2013 Batman Electronics , Mikael Andersen Gallery, Berlin, Abgrund, Greulich Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 2012 Out of the woods and fields , Galerie Krethlow, Bern (CH)
• 2011 Don´t Look Now , Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main
• 2009 Nighthawks , Wewerka Pavilion 2, Münster, Wherever , Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main, Unglückszimmer , Galerie Krethlow, Bern (CH)
• 2008 The Selenite II , Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main
• 2007 Extraterrestrial painting guest of Toni Gerber , Bern (CH), Der Selenit , Mainz Art Academy, Mainz
• 2006 Twenty Thousand Miles , Greulich Gallery, Frankfurt am Main

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2017 Views 29 - "Six in one stroke", Quadrart Dornbirn , Dornbirn curated by Herwig Bitsche, Nord Süd Verlag , Zurich
• 2013 Diversity , Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
• 2012 Krautart 2.0, Greulich Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Vordemberge-Gildewart-Selection , Hessisches Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Landscape , Kunstverein Koelberg Cologne, Cologne
• 2011 Km 500 4 , Kunsthalle Mainz , Mainz, In my dark room , Stadtgalerie, Bern (CH)
• 2010 Blickkontakte - Dutch portraits of the 17th century in dialogue with contemporary art from the SØR Rusche collection , Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Dessau
• 2009 MENSCHENBILDER 1620/2009 - Works from the SØR Rusche collection , Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn, V_kunst frankfurt - May I Introduce Myself , Frankfurt am Main
• 2008 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL), face à face , Galerie Krethlow, Bern (CH), Fluchten , Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden
• 2007 At the moment , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, You won´t Feel a Thing , WYSPA- Institute of Contemporary Art-Danzig, Danzig (PL), You won´t Feel a Thing , Kunsthaus Dresden , Dresden

Exhibition catalogs and publications

• 2016 exh. cat. Showdown , Frankfurt am Main (Greulich Gallery)
• 2013 exh. cat. Abyss , Frankfurt am Main (Greulich Gallery)
• 2011 exh. cat. Don't look now , Frankfurt am Main (Greulich Gallery), exh. cat. Km 500 4 (Kunsthalle Mainz)
• 2009 exh. cat. Wherever , Frankfurt am Main (Greulich Gallery), exhib. cat. Unlucky room, Bern (Krethlow Gallery), exh. cat. Frankfurt am Main (Kunstverein Familie Montez)
• 2008 exh. cat. The Selenite II , Frankfurt am Main (Greulich Gallery), exh. Cat. Fluchten , Wiesbaden (Art Association Walkmühle)

Awards and grants

• 2012: Nominated for the Vordemberge Gildewart Scholarship
• 2011: Next Gastein, Bad Gastein summer residence
• 2010: Scholarship from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Wiepersdorf
• 2008: Culture Prize of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district
• 2008: Silver Brush Award , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL)
• 2008: Toad of the month August for 3 wishes for Pug Man
• 2007: Nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Meschenmoser in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.sebastian-meschenmoser.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian Meschenmoser on Artfacts. Retrieved October 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Book market