David Schnell

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• Publications

  → David Schnell, Hatje Cantz, 2008

  → David Schnell, Hover, Edited by: Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig/Berlin, 2007

• Exhibitions

  → Summer at EIGEN + ART, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
  Familiar territory. Current art in & about Germany, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany 2008

  → Rosebud. A search for opulence and emptiness, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
  Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2008

  → Hover, Mönchehaus Museum for Modern Art, Goslar, Germany (solo) 2007

• Awards

• Links

Quartier, 2017 Oil on canvas 300 x 215 cm

Sage, 2023 Oil on canvas 60 × 50 cm

Ton, 2018 Oil on canvas 290 x 460 cm, 2 parts, each 290 x 230 cm

Via strata, 2013 Oil on canvas 230 x 360 x 4 cm

Downtown, Oil on canvas 360 × 240 cm

Figur, 2023 Oil on canvas 170 × 130 cm

Kalender, 2017/2021 Oil on canvas 230 x 360 cm

Stangen im Mai (Gestänge 4), 2004 Acrylic on canvas 508 × 762 cm

August, 2023 Oil on canvas 80 × 60 cm

Abschied, 2023 Oil on canvas 220 × 155 cm

David Schnell is a contemporary German painter and member of the Leipzig School. Born in 1971 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, he went on to graduate from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in 2000.

As with many of his contemporaries, his work features colorful Geometric landscapes. By intersecting representational space with bars of color rendered in Renaissance perspective, Schnell suggests domestic and commercial places with floorboards or bleachers.

By including man-made architectural elements infringing on a natural space, he comments on the growing industrial complex and globalization of the contemporary world. Schnell’s work is notably influenced by contemporary painters such as Barnaby Furnas, Jules de Balincourt, and Neo Rauch.

Schnell been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hannover in The Hague, Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin, and the Neue Galerie in Gladbeck, among others.