Andreas Nottebohm, born in 1944, is an American/German artist whose work is associated with Op Art, visionary art, and Space Art. He is considered one of the key innovators of Metal Painting.
Life
Born and raised in Eisenach, East Germany, he moved to Munich, West Germany as a teenager. From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under surrealist painter Mac Zimmermann. In 1968, he studied etching at Johnny Friedlaender’s workshop in Paris, France. From 1971 to 1974, he studied lithography in Salzburg, Austria. He returned to Munich in 1974. During the early 1970s, he first experimented with using metal as a canvas by utilizing used etching plates for his paintings. Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man exhibition in 1978. After traveling throughout the United States, he chose to make the San Francisco Bay Area his home.
Career
Andreas Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man show with Galerie Ernst Hilger [Vienna] at WASH-ART in Washington, D.C. in 1978. Starting in 1981, NASA commissioned Nottebohm to create major works, including official paintings to commemorate the first launch of the space shuttle Columbia in 1981. His work has been featured in museums and galleries around the world including the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum in California, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He has had over one hundred one-man shows in Europe and the United States.
Corporations and Collections
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA,
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Kennedy Space Center, NASA Art Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Stephen W. Hawkings, Portfolio A Brief History of My Time
Association of the Friends Haus der Kunst, Munich
Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
City of Salzburg
Satellite Business Systems
Bell Atlantic
General Telephone Electronics
Geico
Hughes Aircraft
Pacific Video
Kreissparkasse Schweinfurt
German Bundestag (Congress), Bonn
German Embassy, Canberra, Australia
Collection of the Philadelphia Free Public Library
Iomega, UT
Wind River Systems, CA
ThunderRiver Technologies, CA
Efeckta Technologies, Inc., CO
G.P.H. Inc., CA
H.S. Chan, Hong Kong
Dohama Building, Japan
DTS Latin America Software
Marriott Hotel, Singapore
Shanghai Golden Bund Real Estate Co., LTD, Singapore
Adonal Foyle, Oakland, CA
Cap Gemini Asia Pacific, Singapore
Luna Hotel, Denver, CO
Balsells Engineering, CA
Beyond Production, CA
Celoxica, CA
Ibarra Technologies, Inc., CA
Innovative Resources, CA
Karl Kreuzer, Germany
KINETEK, Canada
Kinexus, BC, Canada
Los Portales Medical Center, CA
Mortgage Promotions, Inc., CA
NeuPower.com, Inc., DC
North Idaho Imaging Center, ID
Ogden Bio Services, MD
Richard Massey, NY
Regency Group, PA
Sheridan Hills Professional Plaza, FL
Strategic Technologies, CA
The Warfields, Aptos, CA
Strategic Technologies, CA
CIO Communications, MA
Cleaning Systems Inc., WI
Digital Press, VA
Teubner and Associates, OK
Whitfield Associates, CA
SELECTED One Person Exhibitions SINCE 1976
2015
- Modernism, San Francisco
2014
- Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas
2012
- Modernism, San Francisco
2011
- University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
- New Gallery, Houston
- Wertheim Contemporary, Maui
- Andrew Weiss Gallery, Beverly Hills
2010
- Modernism West, San Francisco
2008
- New Gallery, Houston
2005
- New Gallery, Houston
1994
- San Mateo Arts Council, San Mateo
1990
- International Gallery, Chicago
1989
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
1988
- Georgetown Gallery, Washington, DC
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
1987
- Mueller-Zilch Gallery, San Francisco
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
1986
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
1985
- Carol Thornton Gallery, Santa Fe
1984
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
1983
- Jonathan Poole Gallery, New York
1982
- New Art Gallery, Hamburg
- Radicke Gallery, McLean, VA
1981
- Toni Jones Gallery, Houston
1980
- Radicke Gallery, Washington, DC
- Gallery Hilger, Vienna
- SOMA Press, San Francisco
1979
- Galerie Innsbruck, Innsburck
- Toni Jones Gallery, Houston
1978
- The Making of a Lithograph by Andreas Nottebohm; exhibition traveling to Berlin, Munich and Saltzburg
- Gallery Hilger, Vienna
- Gallery A, Munich
- Universo Gallery, Mallorca
1977
- November Gallery, Berlin
- Westfalenblatt Gallery, Bielefield
- Fischer Gallery, Hamburg
1976
- Universitats Kliniken Grosshadern, Munich
Major Productions
Collaboration – Art and Music with Pete Sears
1994 – Official Poster for the 25th Anniversary of NASA
CNN televised interview
1990 – Included In the Stream of Stars, a Soviet-American space art book.
1987 – Articles in Art Gallery International and Art Today
1986 – Vancouver, Canada; Official Poster for EXPO 86 World’s Fair
Cover and feature article in Santa Fe Magazine
1986 – “First Night Launch” painting selected as foldout
poster by OMNI magazine in the 5/86 May issue
dedicated to the memory of the Challenger Seven crew.
1985 – Full page reproduction of the Halley’s Comet
rendering published in Smithsonian Magazine.
1985 – “Computergraphics” article in IBM News, Vol. 276.
1984 – San Francisco, PBS/KQED art auction
1984 – Dallas, NCPA (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Conference, Slide show presentation
“Space Our Next Frontier.”
1983 – Appearances on several television shows including
Midmorning L.A. and Los Angeles cable.
1982 – Omni Magazine cover June 1982 issue.
1982 – Painting loaned to the National Academy of Sciences for Twenty-five Years in Space exhibition.
1981 – BMW Museum, Munich: Lecture and slide show of photos
from the launch of Columbia and recent paintings
with astronomer Reinhard Breuer, from the Max
Planck Institute.
1981 – Eight page article in Zoom magazine on shuttle
Columbia launch and Closest Encounter with Saturn.
1981 – NCR computer graphics competition and subsequent
collective show in Saarbrucken, Germany.
1980 – Polaroid SX70 photographs published in the German book,
Science Fiction International, sponsored by
the Polaroid corporation.
1979 – Astropoeticon – Hardcover artbook representing 39 original
painting; and Video film (20 minutes) “Astropoeticon”
based on slides of Nottebohm paintings.
Co-produced by Walter Haupt (music), H.F. Franke (text),
Manfred Kage (video). Premiered at the Bruckner Festival,
Linz, Austria.
1979 – Slide show and report on his work at the Conference
of the Society for Art and Science at the Evangelical
Academy in Tutzing, Germany.
1979 – Eight page feature article in Zoom magazine, Germany.
1979 – Arts Electronica Linz Austria.
Awards
1981 – Preis Für Computergrafik von NCR
1979 – Silbermedaille der Tourismusvereinigung von Caserta, Internationaler Wettbewerb Malerei “Neapel 2000”
1977 – Frderungspreis, Salzburger Kunstverein
1974 – Frderungspreis, Salzburger Kunstverein
1970 – Ehrenpreis Für Malerei, Salzburger Kunstverein
Graphic Publications
Roth-Hündle Editions 5, 6, 9, 11, 11a, 17
Georgetown Gallery, Washington, DC
Galerie Hoeppner, Hamburg
Arta Osterreich, Austria
Galerie Academia, Salzburg
Galerie Hartmann, Munich
Galerie Schmücking, Braunschweig
Galerie Hilger, Vienna
Edition Imhof, Munich
Edition A., Munich
AJW Graphics, Washington, DC
SOMA Press, San Francisco