David Schnell
1971
born Bergisch Gladbach geboren
lives and works in Leipzig

1995 - 2000painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2000 - 2002Meisterschüler (master student) in the class of Prof. Arno Rink

2002graduation as a master student in the class of Prof. Arno Rink Scholarships

2016Scholarship of the Wilhelm Kempff Academy Positano, Positano, Italy

2013Scholarship of German Academy Rome, Villa Massimo, Rome

2001Sächsisches Landesstipendium

Solo Exhibitions (selection)2020
Saison, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands

2019Splitter, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

2018Album, Goethe Gallery, Goethe Institut Hong Kong, China

2017vert, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, Berlin
Fenster, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany

2015via, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck

2014(particolare), Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin

2012morgen, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig

2011Stunde, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

2010Stunde, Kunstverein Hannover/ Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

2009Design of the "Friedensfenster" at the Thomaskirche Leipzig

2008elusive, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin

2007Hover, Mönchehaus Museum für moderne Kunst Goslar; MAP / Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Mikado, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig

2006Streifzüge, Parasol Unit Foundation, London, GB

2005um zwölf, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin

2004Galerie LIGA, Berlin

2002Wandertag, Galerie LIGA

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart
Denver Art Museum
Kunstfond Sachsen
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Arken Museum of contemporary Art
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Parasol Unit Foundation
Sammlung Burda
Sammlung der Sparkasse Leipzig
Sammlung der VNG
The Rubell Famliy Collection
MAP in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Kunst in der Sachsen Bank / Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg



Source:
Website of Galerie EIGEN+ART, 2020

Davis Schnell (born 1971, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) is an internationally exhibited German painter. From 1995 until 2000 he studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and then from 2000 to 2002 he was a student in the master class of Amo Rink, with whom Neo Rauch had previously studied.

In 2010 Schnell had a solo exhibition at the Stunde Kunstverein in Hannover which then traveled to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen. Schnell is considered to be a younger contemporary of the East German painter, Neo Rauch and a member of the so-called "Leipzig school".

In 2009 he was commissioned to design a window at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In 2013 Schnell was a recipient Villa Massimo grant.

Source:
Wikipedia, 2020