Thomas Schönauer

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Thomas Schönauer, Cultivator II, 2017, stainless steel, Bad Ragaz 2018 (c) Thomas Schönauer

Thomas Schönauer (* 1953 in Düsseldorf ) is a German visual artist . His works are represented in public spaces as well as in private and institutional collections.

Life

Between 1974 and 1978, Schönauer completed a degree in German , Romance languages and philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . From 1975 to 1978 he was also an assistant in the sculpture studio of Friederich Werthmann in Düsseldorf. He intensified his art studies through a stay at the Manitoba Institute of Design, Winnipeg , Canada and close contact with the Düsseldorf Art Academy and its personalities. He has had his own studio in Düsseldorf since 1978 and lives with his family in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth . In 2011 Schönauer was appointed to the design advisory board of the University Hospital Düsseldorf. In 2012 he was appointed an extraordinary member of the BDA (Association of German Architects).

Artistic work

sculpture

Lacquered steel sculptures are typical of Schönauer's work . The fact that metal serves as the substrate for a layer of paint only becomes apparent on closer inspection. A wide variety of works form the basis of his overall works, including experiments with copper assemblage , spatial tensioning with ropes and elastic bands, a series of communication, tree trunks in steel rod sculptures, metaphysical sculptures as well as elementary geometry and metaphysics . Schönauer's central theme is the interplay of matter and vacuum, body and mind.

Since 1988 the artist has expanded his work with sound sculptures I, geometry and astronomy transformed into sound . In 1990, multimedia environments on the subject of ecology followed , in 1993 sound sculptures II, amorphous metal bodies and vowel intonations . In 1995 the material and immaterial space was created as a multi-part, sculptural ensemble. In 2001 Schönauer formulated the topic “Dynamics - Equilibrium ” as colored steel works in the context of vibration, mass and balance. In 2004 the artist created the series “space paintings on steel” as a spatial body made of lacquer and stainless steel sheet. He took part in numerous projects and competitions at home and abroad, e.g. B. in Europe, North and South America, India, Africa and the Middle East.

painting

In addition to sculpture, Thomas Schönauer is also involved in painting. This work area arose from the idea of moving from the two-dimensional ink or watercolor drawing to a three-dimensional object -like nature of painting. The artist uses steel as a basis, onto which he applies non-planar material in the form of varnish. He achieves the spatiality both through the layering of the material and through the content of the paintings. The color itself becomes the form.

CT-Paintings and CT-Universe

In the CT-Paintings (computer tomography paintings) series, Schönauer turns to an expressive polychromy , which is achieved using epoxy resin with quartz sand and liquid pigments . A special color intensity is given by a finish made of acrylic varnish . The presentation of entire color landscapes is expressed.

Sculptures in public space

  • 1984 Communication2, Johanniterstraße, Duisburg
  • 1988 Energy pyramid, Rheinturm, Düsseldorf
  • 1992 Multimedia installations, Aquarius Water Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Cacique, Escola de Arte Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1996 17/96, Columbia-TTI, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2000 Milestones Urstele, State Chancellery NRW, Düsseldorf
  • 2001 Media-Mobile, Media Sculpture BBDO Group, Düsseldorf
Milestones 13/99, Middelburg, Netherlands
Milestones 16/99, Frankfurt ad Oder
5/2001, Kulmer Strasse, Duisburg
  • 2004 The round rectangle, sculptures / photo installation with Stefan Lindauer, Rhenus Logistics, Holzwickede
Check-in, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne
  • 2006 BatlasII, sculpture on the campus of Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
Millstone, Karl-Gieseking-Platz, Sulingen
Seven Pillars, with Michael Burges , Radisson SAS Hotel, Media Harbor, Düsseldorf
  • 2008 Skink, sculpture in the new quarter 'Quartis Les Halles', Düsseldorf
Tratlas II, Jumeirah Palm, Dubai
  • 2010 Rigistones, Weggis, Switzerland
  • 2011 Purple Sky, Küsters garden courtyard, Neuss
  • 2016 Himmelskreuz, Wittenberg
  • 2018 Invader IV, Mönchengladbach
  • 2019 Cultivator 4, Duisburg

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018/19 Art Inspiration Science. Thomas Schönauer - The Engineering Artist, House of the University, Düsseldorf
  • 2018 Secret Ingredients, Engelage & Lieder, Düsseldorf
  • 2016 Inner Logic, Engelage & Lieder, Düsseldorf
  • 2015 Thomas Schönauer - Sculpture and Painting, Municipal Gallery Schloss Neersen, Willich
  • 2014 Space Color Game - The Union of Opposites, GRS-Art House in cooperation with 'Sans Titre', Potsdam, The engineering Artist, Foyer VDI-Haus, Düsseldorf
  • 2013 Nuovo Laboratories, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Landscape-seascape-spacescape, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, From black holes and other stars, Galerie Freitag, Aachen
  • 2012 Universe, Galerie Schwenk, Castrop-Rauxel, micro-macro, Museum Burg Vischering, Coesfeld
  • 2011 Thomas Schönauer, Mies van der Rohe's 125th birthday, in collaboration with Sascha Berretz and W. Blaser, Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, CT-Universe, Merck Finck & Co Bank, Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Raumguss, Galerie Reitz, Cologne
  • 2009 Nuove Laboratories, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy; Exhibition with Sascha Berretz, Galerie Friday 6.30pm, Aachen; Atompops, Highlights of Physics, Gürzenich, Cologne; Time is color, Gallery LS, Nuremberg
  • 2008 2008+, Galerie Noack, Mönchengladbach
  • 2007 Skyfall - fallen from the sky, Villa Heusgen, Krefeld; Wende Art Gallery, Düsseldorf / Krefeld
  • 2006 exhibition with Michael Burges, Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden; Siebai, Galerie Nicols, Düsseldorf
  • 2005 Nuove Laboratories, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy; Two and a half three-dimensional, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2004 Leichtkraft, anders-Galerie im Stilwerk, Düsseldorf; Exhibition with Michael Burges, Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Cachan, Paris,
  • 2003 conditions, APC Gallery Friborg, Switzerland
  • 2002 Matter, Energy and Space, exhibition with Michael Burges; Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg; The world behind things, Mercatorhalle, Duisburg
  • 2001 Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
  • 2000 and they are still turning, I, APC Gallery, Cologne: Cologne Sculpture I, Art-Cologne, Cologne
  • 1999 if you rest, you won't rust, with Eva Ohlow, Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld
  • 1998 Vice Versa, with Manfredo de Souzanetto, Galerie Lekon, Essen
  • 1995 Galeria Plurima, in collaboration with Norbert Frensch, O2 or 3, APC Galerie, Kölb, IN AND OUT, in collaboration with Peter Kowald, Museu de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro IN AND OUT, in collaboration with Peter Kowald, Museu da Escultura Brasileira , São Paulo IN AND OUT, in collaboration with Peter Kowald, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte IN AND OUT, in collaboration with Peter Kowald, Museu do Estado de Pernambuc
  • 1993 IN AND OUT, in collaboration with Peter Kowald, Galerie Artco, Leipzig IN AND OUT, APC Galerie, Cologne IN AND OUT, Galerie b., Paderborn
  • 1992 Cacique, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1991 Vishwa, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl
  • 1990 Vishwa, with Klaus Gendrung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Group exhibitions

  • 2017 Artist of the LandskronSchneidzik Gallery, LandskronSchneidzik Gallery, Nuremberg
  • 2016 Between Medium and Form, with Heiner Nitsch and Ralph Richter, Engelage & Lieder, Düsseldorf, The International Art Project 2016, Edition French Riviera, Chateau des Terrasses, Monaco, The Innovation Art Project 2016 Hamburg, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg
  • 2015 Orti del Paradiso, Fundazione Filatoio, Caraglio
  • 2014 Myth Forest, House Beda, Bitburg
  • 2013 Black and White, Galerie Friday 6:30 p.m., Aachen, The Flying Cubes, Museum Kunstpalast, Robert Schumann Saal, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Blue Fatamorgana, 1000 cans and an illusion, in collaboration with Andreas Kipar, Landschaftsarchitektur LAND, IGS ( International Garden Show) Hamburg, Milan
  • 2012 Sculpture Triennial Bad Ragaz, Bad Ragaz, Plurima propone, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Ostrale, Ostragehege, Dresden
  • 2011 Ostrale, Ostragehege, Dresden, Gallery Friday 6.30pm, Aachen
  • 2010 540 °, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi / Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador do Bahia, FAAP, Sao Paulo, Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, miniatures, Gallery Friday 6.30 p.m., Aachen, Growth, Gallery Friday 6.30pm, Aachen
  • 2009 Auguri, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Accrochage, Galerie Reitz, Cologne
  • 2010 540 °, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art, Salvador do Bahia, FAAP, Sao Paulo; Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte
  • 2008 12 am Ring, Wiesbaden Art Summer, Wiesbaden
  • 2007 Arbres d'Acier, Château de Jehay, Belgium, European Capital of Culture 2007 - Greater Luxembourg
  • 2006 Abel, Bolenz, Burges, Droese, Göhringer, Gross, Heerich, Ronkholz, Schönauer, Wolkenar; Monos Art Gallery, Liège, Belgium; The fate of paradise lies in its geometry, Kunstverein Kunst im Schloss, Untergröningen; SculpTour 2006, Galerie Beukenhof, Belgium
  • 2005 Dal 2 Juglio 2005, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy; Abstract in the room, Wolfgang Schäfer and guests, CON-SUM, Düsseldorf; Nest box project, Rullingen Castle, Borgloon, Belgium; Noack Gallery, Mönchengladbach; Papiers d'hivers, Monos Art Gallery, Liege, Belgium
  • 2004 Papiers d'hivers, Monos Art Gallery, Liège, Belgium
  • 2003 Sabara, 5th Architecture Biennial, with Joao Diniz, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2001 Plan 01, Forum of Current Architecture in Cologne; APC Gallery, Cologne
  • 2000 Museu de Agua de Pampulha, Museu de Arte, Belo Horizonte
  • 1998 Beyond the Limits of Form, Karl Hofer Society, Berlin; Nuove Contaminazioni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Udine, Italy; No comment, APC Gallery, Cologne
  • 1997 Across the Frontier of Form, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Casas das Rosas, São Paulo; Palácio Das Artes, Belo Horizonte; Artist at the Plurima Gallery, Udine; Artist of the Lekon Gallery, Essen; No limit da forma, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo
  • 1994 Pédakondji, Grassi Museum, Leipzig; Municipal Gallery, Prien; Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1993 Pédakondji, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf; Time out for democracy, Halle Kalk, Cologne
  • 1992 African-European inspiration, Goethe-Institut, Lomé, Togo; Center Culturel Francais, Lomé; ATW body in bublic, Galerie Arting, Cologne
  • 1991 ATW Past-Present-Future, Museo de Artes Plasticas, Montevideo, Uruguay; ATW Past-Present-Future, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl; ATW sounding room, Amsterdam, New York, Cape Town
  • 1990 ATW Past-Present-Future, PS1 Museum, New York; ATW Past-Present-Future, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Pictures from New Germany, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1989 ATW Past-Present-Future, Langage-Plus Museum, Québec, Canada
  • 1987 ATW THE TWO-DIE ZWEI, slide projection in public space, Düsseldorf; ATW THE TWO-DIE ZWEI, slide projection in public space, New York
  • 1986 Die Torte, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Quirl, artist symposium, Jagenbergfabrik, Düsseldorf
  • 1980 Exhibition Advance Gallery, Düsseldorf

social commitment

Inspired by his participation in the UN Earth Summit , which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 , Thomas Schönauer founded the aid organization favela education with Rainer Zimmermann and other friends . The aim of the organization is the long-term promotion of school and extracurricular education for children from halfway intact family backgrounds in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The aid organization cooperates with the Third World Youth Network of the Salesians Don Bosco and Human Network Brasil of the Eckes Family Foundation .

literature

a. Monographs

  • Thomas Schönauer, Universe, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2014
  • Dorothee Achenbach, Volkmar Hansen, Andreas Kipar, Werner Küsters, Patricia Laura Figueirdo, Ursula Lytton, Thomas Schönauer, Juliane Zetzsche: 'Landscape Paintings - Engineered by Thomas Schönauer', Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2012
  • Bernd Kortländer, Barbara Schildt-Specker, Ursula Lytton, Rainer Zimmermann: Thomas Schönauer - Fallen from Heaven. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2009
  • Ursula Lytton: Contribution to the exhibition of works of art by Michael Burges and Thomas Schönauer, Galerie Winter (Ed.), Wiesbaden 2006
  • Blaženka Perica, Uwe Elolf (ed.): Thomas Schönauer ... and they turn, Düsseldorf 2003
  • Taubert, Thomas (Ed.): Macacos Thomas Schönauer, Verlag Biering & Brinkmann, Munich 2000

b. Exhibition catalogs

  • From semi-finished product to sculpture. From semi-finished product to sculpture, Engelage & Lieder (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf 2018
  • Inner Logic - engineered by Thomas Schönauer, catalog for the exhibition, Engelage & Lieder (ed.), Düsseldorf 2016
  • SPACE. Thomas Schönauer + Ralph Richter, Latham & Watkins
  • Klaus Noack, Ursula Lytton: "2008+", catalog for the exhibition, Galerie Noack (ed.), Mönchengladbach 2008
  • Uwe Rüth: Vishwa. Sculpture sound installation; Thomas Schönauer, Klaus Gendrung; Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl, 5. – 26. September 1991 (entry from the documenta archive / library catalog)

c. Essays, articles

  • Ursula Lytton: How does a song turn into a song? Contribution to the unveiling of the sculpture 'Millstone', Volksbank Sulingen, Sulingen 2006

d. Anthologies

  • Bad Ragartz. 7th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz 2018

e. Press

  • André Paetzel: Thomas Schönauer, Engineering Artist, in: Liquid inspiration, February 26, 2018
  • Angela Wilms-Adrians: Trützschler celebrates double company anniversary, in: Rheinische-Post online, May 7, 2018
  • Corinna Nitz: firmly rooted! The anniversary of the Reformation is over - but the Luther Garden remains, in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 5, 2018
  • Martina Stöhr: “Aachen 2025” also welcomes utopian ideas, in: Aachener Nachrichten, May 22, 2018
  • Corinna Nitz: Federal President Gauck unveils “Himmelskreuz” in Wittenberg, in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 15, 2016
  • Claudia Burger: The researching artist, in: VDI Nachrichten, January 29, 2016
  • Thomas Lindner: World Heritage Cross from Tornitz, in: Volksstimme.de, July 5, 2016
  • Contribution, WDR local time 2016
  • Christina Elbel: Alchemist of the Arts, in: Rheinische Post, December 1, 2016
  • Gerold Paul: The philosopher as an artist, in: Tagesspiegel. Potsdam Latest News, September 13, 2014
  • Dorothee Achenbach: Rheinische Post, December 11, 2014, p. 21
  • Verena Wengorz: Weightless: Galerie Schwenk shows works by Thomas Schönauer, in: Lokalkompass.de, March 13, 2012
  • Ingrid Rheinhardt-Franke: New Worlds with Brocade, Steel and Findelholz, in: Aachener Nachrichten, September 12, 2009
  • M. Schürmann: The painter on the roof, in: Culture, July 23, 2009
  • Ursula Lytton: The sculpture 'Skink' by Thomas Schönauer at the Interboden service point in “Le Quartier Central”. Festschrift for the inauguration of the service point for 400 condominiums and rental apartments and unveiling of the sculpture 'Skink' by Thomas Schönauer, Interboden Innovative Lebenswelten GmbH (publisher), Düsseldorf 2008
  • Franziska Puhan-Schulz: Sculpture Parcours 12 am Ring, in: db deutsche bauzeitung, June 2008, 142nd year
  • Uwe Reimann: Quartis les Halles 2.0. All-round service in the residential area, in: Rheinische Post, June 6, 2008
  • Peter Littek: A district with service . Topping-out ceremony for the Quartis Les Halles district and unveiling of the Skink sculpture by Thomas Schönauer. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 7, 2008
  • Andrea Springer: Refuge for deep thoughts. Review of the sculpture Refuge on the occasion of the Wiesbaden art summer, in: Wiesbadener Tagesblatt, May 3, 2008
  • Hayke Lanwert: jeweler of sculptures . Portrait of the artist Thomas Schönauer. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 22, 2007
  • Berit Ganzow: "Foray through Düsseldorf sculptures . In: Rheinische Post , November 7, 2007
  • Rainer Vogt: Conjectures about the geometry of paradise . Report on the 6th Art Summer of the Untergröningen Art Association. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , June 8, 2006
  • Christiane Dressler: Mixtures of colors ferment, simmer . Portrait of Thomas Schönauer. In: Rheinische Post , December 30, 2006
  • Klaus Sebastian : Swinging stainless steel . Review of the exhibition Leichtkraft in the Anders gallery in Düsseldorf. In: Rheinische Post , March 3, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Schönauer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf