Tobias Kammerer

Baptistery of the Christ Church in Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia

Last Supper Window in St. Catherine's (Kiev)

Tobias Kammerer (* 1968 in Rottweil ) is an internationally active church artist.

Life

Tobias Kammerer studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Arik Brauer and Josef Mikl . After completing the magister artium, he studied sculpture with Bruno Gironcoli from 1992 to 1993. The artist specialized in large-scale painting from an early age. His painting style is more likely to be assigned to informal painting (“monumental informel ”). His main focus has become "Art in Architecture". His work for sacred spaces began with glass work. In the meantime Tobias Kammerer has designed many public buildings and churches in Germany and abroad, including the St. Catherine Church in Kiev , St. Pauls Church in Odessa and the baptistery of the Evangelical Free Church Christ Church in Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia .

Honors

In 1987 Tobias Kammerer received the Arik Brauer Prize (Vienna), the Theodor Körner Prize (Vienna) in 1989 , the Master School Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1992 and the Karl Miescher Prize in Duisburg in 1997. The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature awarded Tobias Kammerer with the pontificate medal in 2000.

Web links

Literature by and about Tobias Kammerer in the catalog of the German National Library
Official website with publications, projects and exhibitions

Individual evidence

↑ Uland Spahlinger: Phoenix from the ashes. St. Paul's Church in Odessa was rededicated at Easter. In: Lutherischer Dienst 46 (2010), Heft 3, p. 12f

personal data
SURNAME	Kammerer, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German church painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rottweil

[1] Uland Spahlinger: Phoenix from the ashes. St. Paul's Church in Odessa was rededicated at Easter. In: Lutherischer Dienst 46 (2010), Heft 3, p. 12f