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Thursday the 22nd
Opening of Exhibit

Gonn Mosny

Drawings

From May the 22nd   to June the 30th

20:30 Hrs
Galería Haus der Kunst

Gonn Mosny

• 1930 born 1st May, Hamburg, Germany
• 1948 began studies at Hamburg State School of Art
• 1949-1952 studied and trained as a lithographer in Hamburg
• 1952-1957 studied painting under Willi Baumeister until the death of his master at the Stuttgart National Academy of Fine Arts. Period of his first abstract paintings.
• since 1957 free-lance professional painter in Stuttgart. Awarded prices in numerous contests and competitions of predominantly architectural painting (Media: stone, ceramics, wood). Orders for public buildings: Hospitals,
  schools, swimming-baths, concert-house, town-halls etc.
• 1964 began lectureship of painting and drawing at the Pforzheim School of Fine and Decorative Arts. Later he became the director of this school.
• 1971 Founder and 1st President of the National College of Design: In this year he was awarded his professorship in painting.

• 1977 resigned the presidency in order to concentrate on teaching painting.
• 1984 he relinquished his university teaching activities in order of concentrate on painting. From this time he declined any further architectural or sculptural commissions.
• 1985 moved to Fontanille at Gordes near Avignon in the South of France. The new surroundings caused far-reaching changes his personal philosophy, permitting a new and undisturbed artistic activity in the mind as American abstract expressionism around Cy Twombly, Rauschenberg and Motherwell.

• 1986-1989 Intensive work in painting and drawing with contacts to American galleries.
• 1989 Publication of an illustrated art book <GONN MOSNY> by Mark Gisbourne, art historian and art critic, London, today Berlin.
• 1990 began anthropomorphic sculptures
• 1990-1996 Individual exhibitions among others in the galleries Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt – Joachim Becker, Cannes – Arnold Herstand & Comp., New York – La Maison Française of New York University – ART Fair, Cologne – Galerie Kunst Parterre, Koeln/Viersen
• 1993 FIAC Paris - meeting with Cy Twombly

• 1997 returned from Provence to Stuttgart in his own studio house.
• 1998 ART COLOGNE – Art Fair Cologne
• 1999 Exhibitions of the anthropomorphic sculpture group by the
• 2000 gallery Benden & Klimczak
• 2000 Gallery of Rottenburg / Neckar: Individual exhibition “Gonn Mosny - Gruppe aus Gordes” – Steles and Drawings“
• 2001 Individual exhibition of the whole sculpture group of 150 steles “Museo Cabañas” in Guadalajara / Mexico, purchased by Centro J.V.C.
• Exhibition of canvas and drawings “Haus der Kunst”, Guadalajara
• 2005 moved to Telfs in Tyrol/Austria in his second studio house
  keeping up Stuttgart

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