Biographical Information

1950 Born in Zetel, Germany

Education

1974–79 Studied at the Academy of Design with Karl-Heinrich Greune; Bremen, Germany

Awards, Residencies and Professorships

1979 Cité Internationale des Arts Scholarship; Paris, France
1984–85 Villa Massimo; Rome, Italy
1990 Overbeck Award for Visual Arts
1992 Lower Saxony artist scholarship; Bleckede, Germany
1994 Visiting Professor, Pentiment College of Art and Design; Hamburg, Germany
1996 Art Prize artist, The Big Art Exhibition; Dusseldorf, Germany
1998 Residency, Leschwitz Artist House; Görlitz, Germany
1999 Lecturer at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany
2000 Willi Oltmanns Prize for Painting; Delmenhorst, Germany
2005 Professor of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts; Nuremberg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2019 “Alexander Kluge,” Galerie K’; Bremen, Germany
2018 “Supreme discipline,” Galerie Georg Nothelfer; Berlin, Germany
“No Beginning—No End,” Galerie Hubert Schwarz; Greifswald, Germany
2017 “In the Interim, Thomas Hartmann, Norbert Schwontkowski,” Galerie K’; Bremen, Germany
Summer Reading,” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
“North, Thomas Hartmann, Norbert Schwontkowski, Hartmut Neumann,” Städtische Galerie Bremen; Bremen, Germany
“Painting,” Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn; Kühlungsborn, Germany
“New Works,” Galerie K’; Bremen, Germany
“Direct Detour—New Painting;” Christine König Galerie; Vienna, Austria
2016 “North, Thomas Hartmann, Norbert Schwontkowski, Hartmut Neumann,” Museum Ratingen; Ratingen, Germany
“New Pictures,” Galerie Hubert Schwarz; Greifswald, Germany
“Thomas Hartmann, Painting from the Seinsoth Collection,” Barkenhoff; Worpswede, Germany
2015 “The Own and the Other,” Galerie Georg Nothelfer; Berlin, Germany
“New Paintings,” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
2014 Christine König Galerie; Vienna, Austria
2013 "Direct Detour," Galerie Georg Nothelfer; Berlin, Germany
Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
2012 “Unrest (Unruhe),” Kunsthalle Erfurt (catalogue), Germany
2011 “Unrest (Unruhe),” Kunsthalle Rostock (catalogue), Germany
2010 “Unrest (Unruhe),” Museum of Modern Art, Weserburg (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
“Navigation,” Galerie Frisch (Halle am Wasser) with Jasmin Schmidt; Berlin, Germany
2008 Rigassi Gallery; Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Joanna Kunstmann; Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch (catalogue); Vienna, Austria
2006 Galerie Joanna Kunstmann; Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2005 “Three pillars of an Unknown Building,” Beim Steinernen Kreuz Gallery (with Hartmut Neumann and Norbert Schwontkowski); Bremen, Germany
“Many Individuals,” Görlitz Museum of Cultural History (catalogue); Görlitz, Germany
“Triangle,” Heidelberger Art Association (catalogue); Heidelberg, Germany
2004 “Many Individuals,” Neubrandenburg Art Collection (catalogue); Neubrandenburg, Germany
“Triangle,” Brandenburg Art Collection; Cottbus, Germany
“Triangle,” Oldenburger Kunstverein, (catalogue); Oldenburg, Germany
“Many Individuals,” Kirchzarten Art Association; Kirchzarten, Germany
“Small House,” Delmenhorst, Willi Oltmanns Prize (catalogue); Delmenhorst, Germany
1999 Galerie Georg Nothelfer; Berlin, Germany
“Geomer,” Gallerie Beim Steinernen Kreuz Gallery (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
1997 Brecht-Haus; Berlin-Weissensee, Germany
1996 Museum Greifswald; Greifswald, Germany
1990 Galerie Bernhard Vidal (catalogue); Paris, France
“Millions of Towns,” Galerie Georg Nothelfer (catalogue); Berlin, Germany
1989 “North - South,” Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (catalog); Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Overbeck Society; Lübeck, Germany
Kunstverein Springhornhof, New Churches in Soltau; Soltau, Germany
1988 Kunsthalle Emden (catalogue); Emden, Germany
"Landenge," Stadtgalerie Sophienhof, Kiel (catalogue); Kiel, Germany
“North - South,” Kunstverein Freiburg (catalogue); Freiburg, Germany
1985 “Slow Refugees,” Galerie Silvia Menzel (catalogue); Berlin, Germany
Beim Steinernen Kreuz Gallery; Bremen, Germany
Bremen Exhibition, Society for Contemporary Art; (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
1983 Galerie in der Böttcherstrasse (with Hartmut Neumann and K. M. Rennertz); Bremen, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2019 “The Dream of the Library,” Museum of Contemporary Art; Siegen, Germany
“Secret of Things,” Kunsthalle Recklingshausen (catalogue); Recklinghausen, Germany
2018 “ALL. Artists in the Overbeck Society Lübeck,” Lübeck, Germany
“Mystery of things,” Beck & Eggeling (catalogue); Düsseldorf, Germany
“Dozen: Thomas Hartmann Master Class,” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
2017 Group exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary; Bal Harbour, Florida
2016 “3D Sculptures and Objects,” Galerie Georg Nothelfer; Berlin, Germany
“Opening exhibition,” Galerie SOON; Bern, Switzerland
2015 “Fresh From Berlin, insight into a special collection,” Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (catalogue); Oldenburg, Germany
“Lunar Meeting,” Christine König Galerie; Vienna, Austria
“Year-a-year-drawn,” Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof; Berlin, Germany
“All magic is in the picture,” Kulturforum Würth Chur; Chur, Switzerland
books u. papers,” Christine König Galerie; Vienna, Austria
“Modern & Contemporary Masters,” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
2014 “Additions of the Present, Contemporary Art from the Frank Hense Collection,” Kunstmuseum Bochum (catalogue); Bochum, Germany
“Here stands an Armchair, Armchair, Chair, Stool in Art,” Galerie im Traklhaus; Salzburg, Austria
2011 “All the Magic is in the Picture,” Museum Würth ; Germany
“See Rome and Die ...,“ Kunsthalle Erfurt; Erfurt, Germany
“Thirty-four to Kleist;“ Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
“Between Film and Art,” Kunsthalle Emden; Emden, Germany
2004 “From Boniface to Beuys: Dealing with Sacred Oaks,” Kunsthalle Erfurt (catalogue); Erfurt, Germany
2001 “XX Century Landscape,” Landesmuseum Oldenburg (catalogue); Oldenburg, Germany
“The Sea is Blue,” Deutsches Merresmuseum Stralsund (catalogue); Stralsund, Germany
2000 “Good Morning Painting,” Tuscan Portico in the Arsenal (catalogue); Augsburg, Germany
1995 Society for Contemporary Art; Bremen, Germany
“Bremen/Paris - Aller - Retour,” Institut Francais; Bremen, Germany
1990 “40 Years Art in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Kunsthalle Rostock (catalogue); Rostock, Germany
1989 “Refigured Painting, The German Image 1960-88,” Dusseldorf Art Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle; Frankfurt, Germany
“40 Years Art in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Staatliche Gallery Berlin (catalogue); Berlin, Germany
“40 Years Art in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Städtische Gallery Schloss Oberhausen (catalogue); Oberhausen, Germany
1988 “Refigured Painting, The German Image 1960-88,” (catalogue); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Williamstown, Massachusetts
1987 “Deutscher Künstlerbund,” Kunsthalle Bremen (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
“Students and guests of honor at Villa Massimo,” Kunsthalle Darmstadt (catalogue); Darmstadt, Germany
1986 “Image of Shakespeare,” Organizer: National Gallery, Berlin (catalogue)
1985 “Young Art in Bremen,” Kunsthalle Bremen (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
“Annual Exhibition Villa Massimo,” (catalogue); Rome, Italy
“Stairs,” Society for Contemporary Art (catalogue); Bremen, Germany
1984 “German Landscape Today,” Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg (catalogue); Berlin, Germany
Orangerie Herrenhausen; Hanover, Germany
“Art Landscapes Federal Republic,” Von-der-Heyd Museum (catalogue); Wuppertal, Germany
“From the Fall of the Things,” Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven; Wilhelmshaven, Germany
1983 “Deutscher Künstlerbund,” Martin-Gropius-Bau (catalogue); Berlin, Germany
“Great Art Exhibition,” Art Palace (catalogue); Dusseldorf, Germany