Stefan à Wengen
Stefan à Wengen (born on August 12, 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss painter and draftsman.
life and work
As a teenager, Stefan à Wengen found out through systematic research that he was descended directly from the à Wengen family of painters in Basel, which dates back to the mid-16th century.
From 1981 to 1986 he attended the art and general trade school in Basel . After completing his training, he won a scholarship from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation for his abstract paintings in 1987 and 1988, and in 1988, at the invitation of John Armleder, he moved to his studio in New York (USA) for two years.
In 1989 and 2000 he received the Federal Prize for Fine Art for his now representational painting. In 1991 he moved to Cologne, since 1999 he has lived and worked in Düsseldorf.
In Switzerland, à Wengen remains present through numerous solo and group exhibitions, such as the exhibition The Mission 2010 in the Lucerne Art Museum . He also exhibits regularly in Germany, as well as in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Spain, Israel and the USA. As a co-founder of the Spam-Contemporary project space in Düsseldorf, he is also active as a curator and mediator.
During his training in the 1980s, Stefan à Wengen was not enthusiastic about the expressive-figurative painting that was dominant at the time, but about the more rational “New Geometry”. He broke away from abstraction by collecting and drawing globe logos; This he added later under the impression of reading Georges Bataille's The Obscene Work. The story of the eye in the eye sockets of skulls.
Exhibitions
- 2020 - Le Singe Peintre, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
- 2019 - Friends, etc. La collection Pierre Keller; Jenisch Museum , Vevey
- 2018 - Carnival of the Animals - from the art collection of the Art Museum; Lucerne Art Museum, Lucerne (Cat.)
- 2018 - possibilities of painting; Märkisches Museum , Witten
- 2018 - lion safari; Kunsthalle Luzern , Lucerne
- 2017 - Stefan à Wengen - Original Gurus and other works; Viersen Art Gallery
- 2016 - Behind the Curtain - Wrapping and Uncovering since the Renaissance; Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
- 2016 - Stefan à Wengen - No Man's Land; Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
- 2010 - Stefan à Wengen - The Mission; Lucerne Art Museum
- 2010 - Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste; Musée des beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 2007 - The art of collecting; Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
- 2007 - Kava Kava - Facets of Fear; Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum
- 2003 - fink forward; Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2003 - The moon point; Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
- 2001 - Ex (o) DUS; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Awards
- 1987 and 1988 - Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize
- 1989 and 2000 - Federal Prize for Fine Art
literature
- Doreet LeVitte Harten; “Stefan à Wengen” in: Ex (o) DUS; Exhibition catalog Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; 2001; P. 84
- Christoph Lichtin; “The artist's mission” in: Stefan à Wengen - The Mission; Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Luzern; 2010; P. 11, ISBN 978-3-03764-112-5
- Beate Ermacora; “Concepts of Unheimlichkeit” in: Stefan à Wengen - The Mission; Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Luzern; 2010; P. 93, ISBN 978-3-03764-112-5
- Julian Heynen; “Arp in the jungle and other habituation to the unusual” in: Stefan à Wengen - The Mission; Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Luzern; 2010; P. 157, ISBN 978-3-03764-112-5
- Raymund Weyers and Stefan à Wengen; "Detected Dictionary and other investigations - a conversation" in: Stefan à Wengen - Detected Dictionary; Exhibition catalog Beck and Eggeling, Düsseldorf; 2015; P. 10
- Raimund connector; "... when beards become shape ..." in: Stefan à Wengen - Original Gurus and other works; Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Viersen; 2016; P. 6
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan à Wengen in the catalog of the German National Library http://www.dnb.de
- In the catalog of the Swiss National Library http://www.helveticat.ch Roswitha Schild: à Wengen, Stefan, in: Sikart http://www.sikart.ch
- Homepage of Stefan à Wengen
- Stefan à Wengen at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
- Roswitha Schild: Stefan à Wengen, in Sikart http://www.sikart.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Gallery Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main: Detail. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Carnival of the Animals. Retrieved on May 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Lion Safari. October 14, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Behind the curtain. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ^ Gallery Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main: Detail. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wengen, Stefan à |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |