Norbert Schwontkowski. Some of My Secrets

Norbert Schwontkowski. Some of My Secrets

21.03.2020 - 02.08.2020

Norbert Schwontkowski (b. 1949, Bremen. d. 2013) applied his inexhaustible pictorial inventiveness both to fundamental questions of the human condition and to the absurdity of daily life. He possessed a virtuoso command of insinuation and the surreal. His humorous images always appear to be poised at the edge of an abyss. Some of My Secrets, a major exhibition of Schwontkowski’s work, brings together around eighty paintings and over forty sketchbooks from his estate and from collections in Germany and abroad. Norbert Schwontkowski studied painting at the University of the Arts in Bremen and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Following teaching positions in Hamburg, Bremen and Greifswald and a position as a guest lecturer in Braunschweig, he was appointed professor of painting at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in 2005.

In cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag.