BIOGRAPHY

P e t e r  D i t t m a r


Born in Munich, Germany in 1945, Peter Dittmar studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, after which he taught Art in public schools and colleges for 14 years, until he started to live and work in Bali, Indonesia in 1982. Dittmar held a teaching post at the Academy of Fine Arts in Jakarta from 1982 to 1984, then switched to the Federal University of Para in Brazil in 1986. In 1994 Dittmar built his first studio in Sydney, and moved there to live and work in 2002.

A respected artist in his country of origin, Germany, and in Australia as well as in Bali, where he spends half of his time since 1982, Dittmar shows us that abstraction is indeed alive and well. Nourished by the sources of both Eastern cosmic philosophy and Western knowledge, he enables one to forget both form and colour as we behold, giving us the chance blending ourselves into the Void and Stillness of the cosmic OM. 'Early education, the influence of the tropics, the power of meditation and Balinese spirituality forms a mixture of Eastern and Western influence', as Peter Dittmar himself describes it.

 

Education and Background
1970-1976
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany


Selected Awards
2000
File opened, Museum of Modern Art New York

1995
"Works of Excellence", China Art Expo


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
"COLOUR WINDOW COMBINATIONS”, Gaya Art Space in Ubud-Sayan, Indonesia
"COLOUR WINDOWS", Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2008
Galerie Seidlstrasse 4, Murnau, Germany

2007
Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia

2006
GoetheHaus, Jakarta, Indonesia

2005
Whitebox-Kultfabrik, Muenchen, Germany

2004
Galerie am Eichholz, Murnau, Germany

2003
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002
Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singagpore

2001
Gallery Brennecke, Berlin, Germany

2000
Gaya Gallery, Bali, Indonesia

1999
Galerie Matthias Kampl, Munich, Germany               

1998
Gallery East, Perth, Australia

1997
Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Taipei, Taiwan

1996
Goethe Institut, Sydney, Australia

1995
National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia

1994
Galerie X, Munich, Germany

1993
Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany

1992
Galerie Elefant Hall and Landeck, Austria

1991
Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany

1990
ART Basel, Basel, Swiss

1989
Gallery 97, Hong Kong

1988
Ladengalerie, Lothringerstrasse 13, Munich, Germany 

1987
Goethe Institut, Singapore

1986
Galerie Suzanna Sassoun, Sao Paolo, Brazil 

1985
Galerie Erasmus Huis (Dutch Cultural Institute), Jakarta, Indonesia

1984
Municipal Gallery, (Graha Bhakti Budaya, TIM), Jarkarta, Indonesia

1983
Galerie Kunst and Design, Zurich, Switzerland

1982
Rathaus Taufkirchen, Kuenstlerkreis, Munich, Germany

1981
Max Planck Insitut fuer Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Germany

1980
Kellergalerie-Municipal Gallery, Augsburg, Germany 

1979
Galerie Hoogstra, Amsterdam, Holland

1978
Galerie der Akademie, Dillingen, Germany
   
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
"REACH FOR THE HEART", Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2006
Biennale of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

2005
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Singapore

2004
International Art Fair, Guangzhou, China

2003
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Singapore

2002
Australian Cointemporary Art Fair A.C.A.F, Melbourne, Australia

2001
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Singapore

2000
Australian Contemporary Art Fair A.C.A.F. 7, Melbourne, Austrlalia

1999
International Art Fair N.I.C.A.F, Tokyo, Japan

1998
West Lake Art fair, Huangzhou, China

1997
International Artfair, N.I.C.A.F, Yokohama, Japan

1996
Australian Contemporary Artfair A.C.A.F.5, Melbourne, Australia

1995
Nippon Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan

1994
Australian Contemporary Art Fair A.C.A.F.4, Melbourne, Australia

1985-1990
Kunst im Schloss, Wertingen, Germany

1989
GalerieHasieber&Roth, Munich, Germany

1984-1990
Kunstverein Ebersberg, Germany

1984
BMW Gallery, Munich, Germany

1983
Rathaushalle u. BMW Galerie,Isar, Munich, Germany

1982
Galerie der Kuenstler, Erste Jahre der Professionalitaet, Munich, Germany

1980
Rathaushalle, Muenchner Kuenstler in Galerien, Munich, Germany

1974
Engelhornstiftung, Maler u. Zeichner bei R.Troeger, Munich, Germany