Thomas Meyer Zu Schlochtern - IV painting - Sold

Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern (1946-). Oil paint, charcoal and grease chalk on canvas. Dimensions 136x116 cm. The painting is in very good condition. The work has similarities with the famous American artist Cy Twombly.

The artist was also an art historian and curator.
Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern is a Dutch art historian and curator, who became known in the 1990s as director of the Arti et Amicitiae and as a curator at the Rotterdam Art Foundation. He studied art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Ateliers '63 from 1968 to 1972. From 1972 to 1964 he studied art history and conservation at KU Leuven for two more years. In 1977, Meyer started as an employee (Education) at the Van Abbemuseum. In 1980 he was one of the founders of the artist initiative De Fabriek in Eindhoven. In 1986 Meyer was deputy director of the International Sculpture Exhibition Sonsbeek 86 Arnhem. In 1987 he was appointed director of Arti et Amicitiae. In 1990 he switched to the Rotterdam Art Foundation RKS (Rotterdam Arts Council).
That year, together with Jan van Adrichem of Museum Boymans and Ove Lucas, he curated the exhibition for the CBK Rotterdam in the former headquarters of the Holland America Line, now Hotel New York.

In 1993, Meyer curated the exhibition Verwantschaften in the Rotterdam Kunsthal for the RKS. In 1996 he coordinated the first European Manifesta exhibition in Rotterdam for the RKS.

From 1999 to 2006, Meyer was manager and curator at TENT Rotterdam for the Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam (CBK), and for another five years he was curator of international projects for the CBK, such as Paramaribo SPAN with Suriname.

After another year (2010–2011), Meyer was an advisor for the André Volten Foundation, after which he continued as a freelance curator, researcher and writer.

Meyer gave lectures on contemporary German painters such as Penck, Immendorff, Kiefer, Lüpertz and Baselitz. He interviewed the deviant artist Reynaldo Chirino for a project by Bik Van Der Pol.[9] He was one of the first to participate in André Smits' Artist in the World project. In 2014 he published a book about Yubi Kirindongo, a rebellious artist from Curaçao.