Norbert Schwontkowski was born in 1949 in Bremen. He studied at the Akademy in Bremen and Hamburg. In 1994, Schwontkowski was awarded with the Bremen Art Prize and the Overbeck Prize for forming art. Schwontkowski's mostly representational painting themes play with the unconscious and surreal, with its diverse male literary agents into image set figures and motifs wea vibration often in broad, undefined spaces.

German painter. - 1968-73 Studied Fine Arts at the Bremen University of the Arts and at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Mostly representational subjects that play with the unconscious and the surreal; the figures and motifs, rendered with diverse painterly means, often float in vast, undefined spaces.