Stefan Szczesny

Stefan Szczesny (born on the 9th of April 1951 in Munich) is an European and international painter, draughtsman and sculptor. After studying successively in Paris and at the Villa Romana in Florence, he came back to Germany where he organized the first exhibition “Rundschau Deutschland” in Munich and Cologne in 1981 and founded, with other figurative artists, the “Neue Wilde” movement which marks the return of figurative art inspired mostly by “The Fauves”. In 1994, Szczcesny moved to New York and then founded the Szczcesny Factory in 1996. In the middle of the 1990’s, he relocated his Studio on the Mustique Island. The Caribbean and tropical environment incarnates for the artist the continuity of the Mediterranean spirit and “way of life” and inspires his work which becomes even more opulent, sensual, colorful and radiant. Travelling all around the world, taking part to numerous and famous exhibitions, Stefan Szczesny moved in 2001 to Saint-Tropez where he lives and works in his Atelier.

- 1969-1975 : Akademie für Bildende Künste, Munich (Germany)
- 1975 : Scholarship exchange in Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- 1980 : Studies at Villa Romana, Florence (Italy)
- 1982 : Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome (Italy)

1981 Initiator of the exhibition entitled “Rundschau Deutschland”, “Neue Wilde”, Munich and Cologne, Germany
1982 Villa Massimo scholarship, Rome, Italy
1984 “Metamorphoses”, State Antique Collection, Munich, Germany
1988 First Retrospective, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1990 Kunstverein Augsburg (Augsburg Art Society), Germany
1990 Kunstverein Mannheim, Germany
1991 “Idols”, Kunstverein Heidelberg , Germany
1992 “Portraits”, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1992 “Portraits”, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
1993 “Caribbean Style”, Neue Galerie, Linz , Austria
1994 Lok Gallery, New York, USA
1994 Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1996 International Senefelder Prize for Printed Graphics
1996 Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1997 “Works 1975-1996”, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
1997 Ceramic Vases and Vessels, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
1997 Ceramics. Painting. Vases, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany
1998 “Pictures of the Côte d’Azur”, Kunsthalle in Emden , Germany
1998 Museo del Grabado Español Contemporaneo, Marbella, Spain
1999 “Pictures of the Côte d’Azur”, Museum of Modern Art, Passau, Germany
1998 Cotton House, Mustique, West Indies
1999 Sculptures, Glass and Ceramics,...