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Norbert Schwontkowski

German, 1949–2013

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The work of German artist Norbert Schwontkowski is deceivingly simple, at once playful and melancholy, naïve and sophisticated. His small, unassuming canvases can also be oddly humorous at times, as in a painting of a monk pondering a row of washing …
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Group
Group show at a major institution
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Institution
Collected by a major institution
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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Artforum, and 1 more
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Unsettling
Contemporary Figurative Painting
20th Century Art
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Faux Naïf
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The Fantastic
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