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George J. Steinmann (* 23 February 1950 in Bern) is a Swiss visual artist, blues musician, researcher and holder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (2011).[1]
His artistic work includes photographs, installations, conceptual art, painting, object art, video art and drawings. As a blues guitarist he has been active in Switzerland, Europe and the USA since 1966.[2]
After Hermann Hesse (1947), Alberto Giacometti (1965), Gottfried Tritten (1986) and Ilja Kabakov (2000), George Steinmann is the fifth artist to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Berne.[3] According to the insurance company Die Mobiliar, he is "internationally one of the most exciting cultural workers who, as an artist, deal with questions of sustainability"[4].
Steinmann sees himself as a "bridge builder" between the disciplines. Thus his works repeatedly reveal complex relationships and interactions. These relate to the natural sciences as much as to philosophy, and to architecture as well as to nature, because according to him, "social reality in the 21st century has become too complex for us to afford the luxury of disciplinary simplification. This is why I also support a transdisciplinary and holistic consciousness with my works."[5] Steinmann explains his work as "transdisciplinary oriented" since it involves fieldwork where he investigates "Cultural Sustainability, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Local Knowledge of Indigenous Cultures and the Ecologies of Forests and Water."[6]
Life
George Steinmann was born in Bern in 1950. He spent his childhood and school years in Thun. After an apprenticeship as a graphic artist in Bern, he studied painting at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Basel and later in San Francisco painting, sound and African-American studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (with Angela Davis, among others). From 1966 Steinmann was active as a blues guitarist with various bands, first in Switzerland and then throughout Europe. From 1970 to 1975 he lived as a musician and visual artist in Finland and from 1978 to 1980 in San Francisco.[7]
Since 1980 Steinmann has lived and worked as a freelance artist, blues musician and researcher in Bern.
Weblinks
- Article about George Steinmann on Swiss radio and television, in the programme Kulturplatz on the topic "Climate change - so what?"
- Interview with George Steinmann by Kultur-Online of Swiss radio and television on the role of art in the sustainability debate
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ Philosophisch-historische Fakultät: George Steinmann - Universität Bern. 1. Januar 2017, abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020.
- ↑ George Steinmann. Abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020 (deutsch).
- ↑ Website des Künstlers. Abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020.
- ↑ Kunst & Nachhaltigkeit Vol. 7. Abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020.
- ↑ Kunst - Die Kunst der Nachhaltigkeit. 20. August 2016, abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020.
- ↑ Homepage des Künstlers. Abgerufen am 24. November 2020.
- ↑ George Steinmann. Abgerufen am 23. Mai 2020 (deutsch).
