Dieter Nusbaum
Born 1972 in Neuerburg | Eifel
1992: High School at Priv. St. Josef Gymnasium Biesdorf
1994 - 1995:
Sports and theology studies, Mainz
1996 - 1999:
Studied painting at the Institut Supèrieur des Beaux-Arts Saint Luc in Liège / Belgium with Professor Deuse
1996 - 1997:
Studies in the Department of Design with Professor Welter
1996 - 1999:
Studies in the Department of Gravure and Dessin with Professor Herten
1999: Final exhibition and diploma at the Institut Supèrieur des Beaux-Arts Saint Luc
Since 1999 freelance artist
2002 - 2008: Teacher for Art and Art History at Priv. St. Josef-Gymnasium Biesdorf
2014: Overhead Gallery with Thomas Hoffmann
2019: Overhead Showroom Obersgegen
2020: Overhead Art Salon with Sylvia Bahr and Thomas Hoffmann
Books and Catalogues
Exhibitions (2014 - today)
2024:
Art Karlsruhe - Overhead Gallery
Skulptura Schloss Kewenig - Overhead Gallery
Nachtbrötchen Areal Böhler, Düsseldorf
Carte Blanche, Museum Zinkhütte Stolberg
Carte Blanche, Galerie Augarde
2023:
Soloshow RWTH Aachen
Art Karlsruhe - Overhead Gallery
Skulptura Schloss Kewenig - Overhead Gallery
Soloshow Kunstparty Wochenspiegel Trier, Galerie Kaschenbach
2022:
Overhead Art Salon - New Beginnings - Overhead Art Salon
Discovery Art Fair Cologne - Overhead Gallery
AAF Brüssel - Overhead Gallery
Nachtbrötchen 4.0 - Roermond - Part2Gallery
Dieter Nusbaum: Geist und Materie - Fyal, Münster
Art Karlsruhe - Overhead Gallery
Skulptura Schloss Kewenig - Overhead Gallery
2021:
Overhead Art Salon - New Beginnings
Overhead Showroom - Dieter Nusbaum - Geist und Materie II
Basel Art Week - Volta
Basel Art Week - Paper Positions
Nachtbrötchen 4.0 - Roermond - Part2Gallery
Overhead Showroom - Dieter Nusbaum - Geist und Materie
2020
Overhead Art Salon
- Positions - Contemporary Arts
Nachtbrötchen 3.0, Rheinterrasse Düsseldorf, Overhead Gallery
RaumSchau Münster, Overhead Gallery
Nachtbrötchen 2.0, Drive-In-Gallery, Flughafen KölnBonn, Overhead Gallery
On the road, Groupshow Galerie Nolte, Münster
29, Groupshow, PART2Gallery, Düsseldorf
Art Karlsruhe Soloshow
2019
Very modern art for a very modern Christmas, PART2Gallery
Artconnection Münster
Grenzen, Museum Triangel St. Vith/Belgium
AAF London Battersea, Overhead Gallery
Calibri - Soloshow, Bezirksregierung Münster
Artconnection Köln
Afternachtbrötchen, PART2Gallery
Nola - Charity Exhibition, Galerie K
Summertime, Gallery Fox, Eupen/Belgium
Nachtbrötchen, Ergo Ipsum, , Düsseldorf
Family Album - Soloshow, PART2Gallery
AAF London Hampstead, Overhead Gallery
Art Sylt, Part2Gallery
ARTMUC, Part2Gallery
Lausanne Art Fair, Galerie K
Paris Art Fair, Overhead Gallery
Calibri, Edelfrei, Bamberg
Behind, Galerie Nolte
Saturday Evening - Soloshow, Gallery Fox
Art Innsbruck- Soloshow, Overhead Gallery
2018
Luxembourg Art Fair, Galerie Kaschenbach
Artconnection Münster
AAF Singapore, Overhead Gallery
Artconnection Köln
AAF London Battersea, Overhead Gallery
Saturday Evening Post, Galerie Nolte
AAF London Hampstead, Overhead Gallery
Lausanne Art Fair - Soloshow, Galerie K
Heimat, Galerie Simon Nolte
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie A Spiren, Strassen/Luxembourg
Art Fair Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Overhead Gallery
Art Innsbruck, Overhead Gallery
2017
Artconnection Münster
Luxembourg Art Fair, Galerie Kaschenbach & Galeria K
Artconnection Köln
AAF london Battersea, Overhead Gallery
Visible, Nacht der Museen und Galerien, Galerie Nolte
Visible, Kloster Feldbach Österreich
AAF London Hampstead, Overhead Gallery
Dirk Groß & Dieter Nusbaum, Overhead Gallery
Biennale d´Art Contemporain Strassen/Luxembourg
Kleine Papierarbeiten, Devonium – Geomuseum Waxweiler
Art Karlsruhe, Kunsthandlung Osper
2016
Antiques & Art Fair Luxemburg, Galerie Kaschenbach
Art Innsbruck, Overhead Gallery
Die Gleichzeitigkeit der Ereignisse, Galerie Augustin
Die Gleichzeitigkeit der Ereignisse, Kunsthandlung Osper
Memoarium, Schloss Kewenig|Eifel
Auf Papier, Kunsthandlung Osper
Zeitgeist, Galerie Simon Nolte
ART.SYLT, Goodwin Gallery
Überkopf - Kunst begegnen, Showroom , BZR Münster
Art Fair Cologne, Kunsthandlung Osper
Art Innsbruck, Overhead Gallery
Luxembourg Art Fair, Galeria K
2015
Antiques & Art Fair Luxemburg, nusbaumART
Art Innsbruck, Kunsthandlung Osper
Überkopf - Kunst begegnen, Galerie Überkopf, KSK Bitburg
ArtWeekend, Overhead Gallery
Biennale d´Art Contemporain Strassen/Luxembourg
KonschTour Vianden, Luxembourg
EinMannDreiMann, Galeria K
Überkopf - kunst begegnen, Nacht der Museen & Galerien, BZR Münster
American Dream, Galeria K
Art Fair Cologne, Kunsthandlung Osper/Köln
Artconnection Köln
Neue Arbeiten, Overhead Gallery
The theme of layer, Galerie Nolte / Münster
2014
Vernissage, Künstlermesse, Kulturkirche Altona, Hamburg
Vernissage, Künstlermesse, Schloss Meersburg, Meersburg am Bodensee
KonschTour Vianden, Vianden / Luxemburg
Toleranz, Schloss Osterstein, Gera
Schmetterlingskunde, Kunsthandlung Osper, Köln
Art Fair Cologne, Kunsthandlung Osper, Köln
Art Fair Cologne, Galerie Art Nou Milenni, Barcelona
Artconnection Köln
About:
Since his graduation at the Art College Liège in 1999 , Dieter Nusbaum has been working as a freelance artist in the fields of painting, graphics and sculpture.
Nusbaum can be found in several German and international galleries, his works are shown at international fairs like AAF Singapore, AAF London Battersea, AAF London Hampstead, Paris Art Fair, Lausanne Art Fair, Art Fair Cologne, Art Luxembourg or Art Karlsruhe.
Many of his works have been purchased by public institutions as well as public and private art collections.
Nusbaum concentrates on art in the context of art-in-construction for public areas in cooperation with public institutions.
"The desire for diversity in the creative as well as in the stylistic is the unmistakable feature in the work of Dieter Nusbaum. One almost feels the much-quoted artistic urge to feel in the powerful painterly formulations on the canvas. And indeed it is the fire, the tangible passion of the artist and the skilful use of the painterly means that enables Dieter Nusbaum to offer us an art of the highest quality. "
Margrit ten Hoevel, art historian
Unfathomable worlds of imagery
Figurative and abstract, realistic and surreal at the same time. Anyone who wants to describe the work of Dieter Nusbaum faces a real challenge: they simply cannot be assigned to any subject. There is no drawer to put him in. Nusbaum's art is unique, very personal, sometimes even private, and highly innovative. His truly multi-layered world of images is unfathomable – often bewildering. The bewilderment is intentional.
With his works, Dieter Nusbaum embarks on an inner journey of discovery, and the viewer follows him like a curious travel companion, making his own discoveries along the way. The artist succeeds in this game of imagination, fantasies, and emotions by ingeniously merging several media and techniques.
Dieter Nusbaum discovered his peculiar visual language in his creative search for new means of expression. As an artist, he is endlessly curious, as daring and experimental as an alchemist. He began as a classic painter, then tried to bring together colors that simply refused to combine. Now he uses the material mix he has developed, much like a perfumer uses his scents to compose a unique fragrance. "I now know how to bring my different techniques together," says Nusbaum. "I know the effects I can achieve with them." What he puts on the canvas is well planned. "I have my composition in mind before I start," he confesses. "And yet I am always surprised at how chance intervenes and adds a new level of understanding." Dieter Nusbaum is a polymath. He is a painter, a photographer, and a printer all at once. They work hand in hand in personal union. In the end, everything is collaged and brought together according to a concept. The mixed technique that Dieter Nusbaum has developed and finally mastered over the past years serves one goal: to poke at associations and at the same time trigger emotions. Nusbaum's drive can be found in his guiding principle: "Art is conveyed emotion."
His narrative works are almost like a search image. They consist of a collage of various details and motifs. Here a bicycle appears, there a bird. The individual motifs are meaningful finds that enliven the artist's philosophy. Faces often appear – often those of his children and his wife – sometimes only a profile remains. These details are like ciphers and symbols, especially as they are mostly isolated, stylized, and abstracted through processing. The individual elements are based on various photos that Nusbaum himself has taken and then extensively edited. These photo motifs serve as printing templates for screen printing with the finest meshes. This is a delicate process that the artist has developed to perfection. He personally handles all steps in his spacious studio.
Each individual painting is unique. It is created on a canvas that is abstractly colored using different techniques. Sometimes paint is sprayed on, sometimes it's brushed on, and sometimes a squeegee is used to spread it across the surface. Only then are the image elements applied in multiple layers using a white screen printing process. Up to nine different prints may be applied to a single work. Each composition is different, even in cases where the artist has created a series. The handling of each technique requires great craftsmanship. Screen printing is a complex process, as Sigmar Polke himself knew, whom Dieter Nusbaum sees as his role model for famous prints. One wrong move and hours of preparation are lost. Furthermore, the fine-meshed screens that apply the color to the colored canvas are as delicate as they are expensive. Dieter Nusbaum could sing a song about some of the mistakes he's made. When printing, it can take just a few minutes or even seconds. A small mistake can destroy the entire image or render the valuable screen and its motif unusable.
Dieter Nusbaum was born in 1972 in Neuerburg in the Eifel region. After finishing high school, he studied sports and theology. A sports accident ended his original ambitions, so he went on to study art and painting in Lüttich. He completed his diploma there and has been a visual artist ever since. He lives and works in Frechen near Cologne. Dieter Nusbaum has exhibited his works in over 120 galleries, museums, and fairs, including some international shows. The artist has already received numerous awards and prizes. Among others, he is represented by the Overhead Gallery in Münster, which presents him at fairs in London, Lausanne, Paris, Singapore, Innsbruck, and Luxembourg.
Dr. Jörg Bockow, journalist and art critic
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nusbaumART - Dieter Nusbaum - Artist Dieter Nusbaum arbeitet seit seinem Abschluss an der Kunsthochschule Lüttich 1999 als Freischaffender Künstler im Bereich Zeitgenössischen Kunst mit den Schwerpunkten Malerei und Installation.
Dieter Nusbaum wird auf dem internationalen Kunstmarkt von renommierten Galerien vertreten. Viele seiner Arbeiten wurden von öffentlichen und privaten Kunstsammlungen angekauft.
