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Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present the first New York exhibition of German artist Norbert Schwontkowski from September 21 through November 22 in their Uptown space.

The exhibition presents a dozen new paintings by Schwontkowski among a number of paintings by modern and contemporary masters selected by Schwontkowski himself. Works by Forrest Bess, Philip Guston, Alex Katz and Pablo Picasso hang alongside Schwontkowski’s paintings and serve as an informal homage to these artists while demonstrating Schwontkowski’s affinities with a range of 20th -century artistic traditions.

Born in 1949 in Bremen, Germany, Schwontkowski has regularly exhibited in galleries and public institutions throughout Europe since the late 1970s. In Spring 2006 he was included in the Berlin Biennial and was the subject of a special exhibition at the Rubell Collection in Miami in December 2005. Represented in Germany by Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Schwontkowski is a professor of painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künst at Hamburg.

WE MAKE ANY SIZE OF MIRROR

Norbert Schwontkowski
and Forrest Bess, Philip Guston,
Alex Katz, Pablo Picasso

Opening Reception
Thursday September 21, 6-8PM

Mitchell-Innes & Nash
1018 Madison Avenue
Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm
www.miandn.com
press@miandn.com

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