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1892 Kankehemen bei Tilsit - 1982 Berlin. Known for: Painting, drawing, prints.
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) . The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first... Read full biography
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) . The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first drawings. However he only began to draw intensively after World War II. Schröder-Sonnenstern's works show... Read full biography
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) . The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first drawings. However he only began to draw intensively after World War II. Schröder-Sonnenstern's works show erotic and dreamlike imagery with bizarre creatures, often hybrids of man and beast. He continuously takes up recurring motifs, meticulously drawn in bold colors. In the early 1950s a gallery organized... Read full biography
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) . The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first drawings. However he only began to draw intensively after World War II. Schröder-Sonnenstern's works show erotic and dreamlike imagery with bizarre creatures, often hybrids of man and beast. He continuously takes up recurring motifs, meticulously drawn in bold colors. In the early 1950s a gallery organized the artist's first show, the surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1959 celebrated him as the most sensational artist of the 20th century, numerous international exhibitions followed. Today Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern is considered to be one of the... Read full biography
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982) . The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first drawings. However he only began to draw intensively after World War II. Schröder-Sonnenstern's works show erotic and dreamlike imagery with bizarre creatures, often hybrids of man and beast. He continuously takes up recurring motifs, meticulously drawn in bold colors. In the early 1950s a gallery organized the artist's first show, the surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1959 celebrated him as the most sensational artist of the 20th century, numerous international exhibitions followed. Today Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern is considered to be one of the most significant representatives of outsider art.
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Frederic Schroeder-Sonnenstern, Friedrich Schroder Sonnenstern
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Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982)
The artist devoted himself to drawing only late in life. In 1933 he met the expressionist painter Hans Ralfs, who inspired him to create his first drawings. However he only began to draw intensively after World War II.
Schröder-Sonnenstern's works show erotic and dreamlike imagery with bizarre creatures, often hybrids of man and beast. He continuously takes up recurring motifs, meticulously drawn in bold colors. In the early 1950s a gallery organized the artist's first show, the surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1959 celebrated him as the most sensational artist of the 20th century, numerous international exhibitions followed.
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