Sebastian Burckhardt

1950 born in Bern - Switzerland
Valeria S. Lombardi, Dr.Kunstgeschichte Universitt Mailand "Selten erreignet es sich, dass bei einem Kuenstler gleichzeitig mehrere Stile entstehen und das diese zu einer totalen szenischen Harmonie fuehren."......" Man nimmt einen tiefen Elan wahr, eine konstante malerische Veraenderung......"


He studied in Munich's` Art School from 1974 - 1980 for a MA in Fine Arts. During his studies, he went several times to South America, attracted by the intensity of tropical nature and a very different world. After completing his studies, he immigrated in 1980 to Caracas, Venezuela and stayed there till 1986. ("Tropical Panorama" 11x1.60m exhibited 1983 in the gallery of the "Foundation Mendoza", Caracas). He taught art and German.

After returning 1987 to Zurich he opened a series of exhibits in an old factory in Zurich, where he had his studio for two years; he had been invited by an artist group called KOPROD. He worked and showed his paintings in many galleries in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Israel.
In 1991, he had a retrospective at the "Kulturforum Villa Oppenheim" in Berlin. In summer of the same year he married Gillat Bartov. He gave workshops at the University of Siegen in Germ...

1974-1980 art academy of Munich Germany - teaching art and exhibiting since 1979

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS (Selection)

1973 GALERIE 5 GENEVA SWITZERLAND

1989 KUNSTVEREIN WETZLAR GERMANY

1989 GALERIE CONVENTO VECCHIO ASTANO SWITZERLAND

1987/90 GALERIE WERNER BOMMER ZUG&ZURICH - SWITZERLAND

1991 KULTURFORUM VILLA OPPENHEIM BERLIN GERMANY

1991/94 GALERIE PALLETTE ZÜRICH - SWITZERLAND

1992 UNIVERSITÄT SIEGEN - GERMANY

1994/95 AGUDA, Haus der Maler und Bildhauers Israels Tel Aviv

1996 WERKFORUM DOTTERNHAUSEN BALINGEN GERMANY

1997 KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN USA

1998 KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN USA

1999 POWER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS ANN ARBOR MI USA

2005 GALLERIA IL CASTELLO TRENTO ITALY

2007 GALERIE ARTEPICTURA KUESNACHT/ZURICH

2013 Artforum Gartenflügel Ziegelbrücke Switzerland
2016 Gallery Of the Municipality of Jerusalem
2020 Kunstraum Königsfeld Germany Black Forest



GROUPE EXHIBITS (Selection)

1973 GALLERIE 5 GENF CH 1979 HAUS DER KUNST MÜNCHEN

1979 GALERIE BÜRDEKE ZÜRICH CH 1979 GALERIE WALDSTÄTTEN CH

1981 FUNDACOMUN CARACAS VENEZUE...