Siegfried Santoni

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Siegfried Anton Maranius Santoni (born July 25, 1955 in Leoben , Austria ), born Siegfried Anton Niessl , is an Austrian artist.

Life

Siegfried Santoni was born as Siegfried Niessl as the son of Pauline Niessl, b. Reber and Alois Alois Niessl were born.

He grew up in Leoben, where he attended elementary school. When he was eleven years old, his father died. He went to grammar school in Graz for two years, the Salvatorian boarding school in Graz , and then to grammar school in Leoben for two years. Then he went to the Ortwein School in Graz. Building - Art - Design , followed by a degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz .

Santoni was the official representative of Austria after Alfred Hrdlicka and before Max Weiler in the international cultural exchange with Mexico and had four large individual presentations in the museums of the cities of Mexico City , Veracruz , Xalapa and in Guadalajara in 1991/92.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he received an invitation from the city of Berlin to paint his interpretations of the social changes in Central Europe in 1990 on the remaining kilometers of the Berlin Wall . Santoni's trilogy (10 × 4 m) Machine - Man has been a listed building since 1991 and was awarded the special prize “Lived Unity” in the competition “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” under the patronage of German President Horst Köhler and funded by Deutsche Bank excellent.

Siegfried Santoni lives and works in Styria , Austria.

Awards (selection)

  • 2016: Da Vinci Prize, Art International Contemporary, Florence
  • 2010: First special award “Lived Unity” and “Selected Location 2010” from the German Federal President Horst Köhler .

Exhibitions (selection)

Source:

Radio broadcast

Publications (selection)

Books:

  • On the trail of light

Catalogs:

  • Concentration , Gallery 58, Bern , Switzerland
  • My landscape , Leoben City Museum
  • Triptychs , Weihergut Gallery , Salzburg
  • Sound and Rhythm , Hanau City Museum , Germany
  • A piece of nature - encounters - traces and signs - machine power , Museo Santo Domingo, Mexico City , Mexico
  • New York - encounters - natural pieces - landscapes of the soul - signs and traces , Galerie am Salzgries, Vienna
  • Floods of light , Hartl Gallery, Vienna
  • Terra Magica for the festival exhibition, Gerlich Gallery, Salzburg
  • Transparency of Creation , Gallery Zeugma, Cologne, Germany
  • There is always something going on - body signs , 35 years Santoni
  • Transparency of Creation - New Works , Graz Biennale, Hofgalerie, Graz
  • The Painter of Light , Agora Gallery, New York City , United States
  • Symphony of Creation for the Festival Exhibition, Red Dot Gallery, Salzburg

Art calendar:

  • Soul landscapes , Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg
  • Encounters - Traces and Signs , Galerie am Salzgries, Vienna
  • City stories , Siemens Nixdorf , Vienna
  • Archaic Landscapes - Relationship Networks - Architectural Landscapes , Art Association ARTina
  • Painting of Light , Gerlich Gallery, Salzburg
  • New acrylic paintings , Gerlich Gallery, Salzburg
  • Terra Magica - Encounters - Flora Magica
  • There is always something going on

literature

  • Santoni, Siegfried Anton Artus . In: Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . tape II . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-24737-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johann Zugschwert: Da Vinci crowns his life's work. Siegfried Santoni received the renowned Da Vinci Prize in Florence for his life's work. Little newspaper . February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ Springboard for art "stocks" . In: Kronen-Zeitung . May 8, 2015, p. 29 .
  3. ↑ a b Hofgalerie (Ed.): Hof-Biennale 01 . 2012, p. 2 ( digital copy [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Gerlich Gallery . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . July 21, 2001, p. 40 .

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personal data
SURNAME Santoni, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santoni, Siegfried Anton Maranius (full name); Niessl, Siegfried Anton (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Austria