Timo Dillner

Timo Dillner (born December 20, 1966 in Wismar ) is a German artist and writer.

Life

Timo Dillner came to Cottbus in 1975. After graduating from high school, he studied education, art and German at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. From 1989 to 1998 he worked as an assistant in the Brandenburg art collections in Cottbus. Since then he has lived in Portugal as a visual artist and author.

Act

Parallel to his artistic and literary work, Dillner has devoted himself to answering the question “What is art?” Since 2004 and published the essay “Art = [is equal]” in 2007, in which he attempted a clear definition and overarching formula for the term art. In 2012 he presented the art style he developed from this with the first book of the catalog series “Der Poetic Contineralism”.

The first personal exhibition under this title took place in 2012 at Casa Manuel Texeira Gomes in Portimão. This was followed by the exhibitions “Poetic Contineralism - Graphic Works” at the Museu de Alhandra, Vila Franca de Xira, 2012; “The Poetic Contineralism - New Ports” in the municipal gallery “The Tree House at the Old Harbor” in Wismar, 2013, and “The Poetic Contineralism - New Worlds” in the Museu de Portimão, 2015. Under the title “The Poetic Contineralism - Finds” Dillner's works were presented at the Museu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho (Lagos), followed by the exhibition “Poetic Contineralism - New Horizons” 2017 at the Centro Cultural de Lagos.

Dillner's work was recognized in publications by the city administrations of Lagos, Vila Franca de Xira, Wismar and Portimão as well as by the President of the German-Portuguese Society, Harald Heinke (preface to the book “Der Poetic Contineralism - Paintings and Poems”); by the head of the language department of the Goethe-Institut Lisbon, Dr. Dorothea Klenke-Gerdes (epilogue in the book “Timo Dillner. Não farás para ti imagem. You shouldn't make a picture”) and the Portuguese Ambassador in Berlin, HE Luís de Almeida Sampaio (preface to the book “Der Poetic Contineralism - New Worlds”) In 2016 the Ministry of Culture of the Portuguese Republic sponsored Dillner's film project about Heinrich the Navigator “Aufbeschworen / Vocado”, and in 2017 the painting “The Dream” was included in the permanent collection of the Lagos City Museum as part of the celebrations for the 87th anniversary.

Works

• Sabine Dillner, Timo Dillner: Hexilon. The enchanted book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-5014-5 .
• Sabine Dillner, Timo Dillner: Hexilon. The bad breath. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-5049-8 .
• Paintings and poems. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2004, ISBN 978-989-8161-04-8 . 107 pp., German / Portuguese.
• The show-off ... and other rhymes ”. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2005, ISBN 978-989-8161-05-5 . 60 pp.
• Art = [is the same]. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2007, ISBN 978-989-8161-03-1 . 26 pp.
• The beach ... and other legends of the Algarve. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2007, ISBN 978-989-8161-07-9 . 32 pp.
• A Praia ... e outras lendas do Algarve , BuHch edition, ISBN 978-989-8161-06-2 , Portuguese.
• The Beach ... and other legends of the Algarve , BuHch-Edition, ISBN 978-989-8161-08-6 , English.
• The death of the king. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2008, ISBN 978-989-8161-00-0 . 354 pp.
• Arte = [é igual]. BuHch-Edition Lagos 2009, ISBN 978-989-8161-15-4 . 26 p., Portuguese
• Timo Dillner. Não farás para ti imagem. You shouldn't make yourself a picture. CCL, Lagos 2009, ISBN 978-989-95020-7-9 . German / Portuguese.
• Knopp and the witch from Erlenbruch. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2009, ISBN 978-989-8161-10-9 . 114 pp.
• Kurt and the Enchanter. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2008, ISBN 978-989-8161-02-4 . 68 pp.
• André eo Alquimista. BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2008, ISBN 978-989-8161-01-7 . 68 pp., Portuguese
• The Poetic Contineralism / Paintings and Poems , BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2012, ISBN 978-989-8161-22-2 . 44 p., German / Portuguese.
• Poetic Contineralism / New Ports, portos novos , BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2013, ISBN 978-989-8161-23-9 . 44 p., German / Portuguese.
• The dragon of Sagres , BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2015, ISBN 978-989-8161-24-6 ., German.
• O dragão de Sagres , BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2015, ISBN 978-989-8161-25-3 ., Portuguese.
• The Dragon of Sagres , BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2015, ISBN 978-989-8161-26-0 ., English.
• Poetic Contineralism / New Worlds , mundos novos, Lagos 2015 ISBN 978-989-8161-27-7 . 44 p., German / Portuguese
• "Vocado - Henrique, o navegador / Aufbeschworen - Heinrich der Seefahrer", Video-DVD, BuHch-Edition, Lagos 2016, ISBN 978-989-8161-29-1 ., German / Portuguese.
• "The Poetic Contineralism - New Horizons / Horizontes novos", Câmara Municipal de Lagos, 2017, ISBN 978-989-95020-9-3 ., 36 pages, German / Portuguese

Web links

• Literature by and about Timo Dillner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bibliotheca National de Portugal
• Ibero-American Institute - Prussian Cultural Heritage
• Website Timo Dillner