Stefan Steiner (artist)
Stefan Steiner (born February 9, 1963 in Steinhausen ZG ) is a Swiss visual artist .
Life
Steiner is a painter and draftsman , his abstract pictures in acrylic or as watercolor belong to gestural color painting. From 1985 to 1988 he graduated from the Lucerne School of Design with Anton Egloff . He has lived in Germany since 1988 . In 1988 he received a further training grant from the Landis & Gyr Foundation . In 1989, 1990 and 1996 he received work grants from the Canton of Zug . From 1988 to 1992 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a master student of Günther Uecker . In 1995 he was nominated for the Max Pechstein Award . He gave courses at the Art Academy in Münster .
Steiner had several exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland. He has been creating artist books and art book objects since the late 1980s ; these were shown in a retrospective in 2013 in the Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte in Appenzell, for which a catalog volume was published by Verlag Steidl.
He interweaves his art a. a. with music; so he designed studio concerts a. a. with Malika Kishino and Antoine Beuger .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1992: Myth of the Rhine , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
- 1992: From private ownership - drawings from the 20th century , Kunsthaus Zug
- 1995: Exhibition for the award of the Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis , Städtisches Museum Zwickau
- 1998: Art from Zug - The Collection , Kunsthaus Zug
- 2002: tomorrow the red - light darkness , (with André Gysi ), Kunsthaus Zug
- 2006: count from one to twenty-six , art and museum library of the city of Cologne
- 2013: Stefan Steiner - Efach, Einfach , Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte , Appenzell
- 2016: Contemporary art from Zug, works by the canton , Kunsthaus Zug
Publications
Exhibition catalogs, published artist books
- Roland Scotti (Ed.): Blueprint. Parerga-Verlag, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-930450-08-9 .
- André Gysi - light darkness, Stefan Steiner - tomorrow the blush. Kunsthaus Zug, Zug 2002, ISBN 3-906545-11-3 .
- soon instant. 2002.
- count from one to ninety-six. 2006. OCLC 856662378
- Simple, easy. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-657-5 (exhibition booklet : Stefan Steiner - Efach, Einfach , Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte Appenzell, May 9 to September 1, 2013).
- Andreas Grosz (text), Stefan Steiner (ill.): Works on paper. Exhibition catalog, Salon Verlag & Edition , Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-89770-471-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Stefan Steiner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Stefan Steiner. In: Sikart
- Steiner, Stefan in the catalog of the Cologne Art Library
- Artist's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Steiner - biography. In: stefansteiner.com. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steiner, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinhausen ZG |