Piotr Sonnewend / born 1953 in Poznan (Poland) / Studies: painting, graphic arts, sculpture at the Poznan Academy of Art / internship in stage design at the Szajna Theater in Warsaw / 1981 moved to the FRG (Berlin, Schöppingen, since 1997 Legden) / numerous exhibitions: among others in Poznan, Warsaw, Krakow, Sofia,
Liège / Since 1981, he has been increasingly active in West Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Poland. He has worked as a stage designer in Münster, Castrop Rauxel, Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, among others, staging performances and the like. / Permanent guest professorship in drawing, lithography and stage design at the art academies in Poznan and Gdansk / Teaching position at the University of Paderborn, at the Free Art Academy in Essen and Bad Reichenhall / Art student projects at the art academy aki – Enschede /Netherlands / Further exhibitions: Museum Ostwall – Dortmund, National Museum Leszno, National Museum Poznan, City
Museum in Bremervörde, Academy of Arts Poznan/Poland, Academy of Arts Gdansk/Poland / Works in public collections (National Museums Poznan, Brussels) and municipal galleries / Sculptures and objects in Schöppingen, Heek-Nienborg and Ahaus (Kunstroute) / His artistic interests lie
in the field of drawings and lithography, stage design and performance / In his two-dimensional works, he develops richly differentiated image surfaces of the finest graphic structures and monochrome colors, using the specific properties of material and technique.
