Stefan S. Schmidt

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Stefan S. Schmidt (born August 27, 1958 in Marburg an der Lahn) is a German painter and teacher . He lives and works in Marburg. Schmidt studied painting , graphics and art history at the Kunsthochschule Kassel , in Loughborough and at the Philipps University of Marburg . His main subject is still life . Schmidt also worked as a high school teacher for art at several schools in the Marburg area and continues to do this today alongside painting.

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Schmidt paints realistic pictures. Which means first of all that his painterly expression is objective, almost meticulously committed to the appearance of the object. The decisive factor for his pictures, however, is not the painterly handwriting, but the painterly gaze. In his still lifes, for example, remarkable or typical things are not made visible in the objects themselves, but in the way in which an object is arranged with others or when and where these stagings take place. In contrast to Pop Art , Stefan S. Schmidt does not want to ideologically exaggerate the banality of the object or use it to demonstrate his painting skills, as is often the case with American photorealists . His staging usually refers far beyond the objects themselves to a third aspect: For example, to the relationships that things have or could have with one another, or to something that happened shortly before or will happen immediately afterwards. Through their arrangement, the objects in his still lifes become metaphors . These metaphors, these metaphorical relationships between things then turn out to be the essence of the images in the viewer. They form what remains in the impression that the viewer takes away from them.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002, "40x40", Kunstforum Seligenstadt
  • 2002, "My Home is my Castle", art balcony, Kassel
  • 2004, International Drawing Biennale , Pilsen, Czech Republic
  • 2005, "Architecture", Schmalfuß Gallery, Marburg
  • 2006, "Art in Marburg", Marburger Kunstverein , Marburg
  • 2006, International Drawing Biennial, Pilsen, Czech Republic
  • 2007, Great Art Exhibition Munich, House of Art , Munich
  • 2007, Great Art Exhibition Halle, Kunst Halle eV, Halle

Prizes and awards

  • 1990, European Prize for Painting from the City of Ostend, Belgium (Third Prize)
  • 1991, Premio Agazzi, Bergamo, Italy (special prize for watercolor )
  • 1992, laureate of the Marielies Hess Foundation, Frankfurt
  • 2004 and 2006, winner of the International Drawing Biennale, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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Individual proof

  1. ^ Robert Schützendorf, in: Catalog Marburger Kunstverein "The Reconstruction of the Moment", 1997
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Stefan S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg