David Weiss (born August 28, 1985 in Fulda, Germany) photographs, paints, draws comics, makes woodcuts, screen prints and bronze casting. The techniques often mix with each other. For example, woodcuts are printed and then painted over, sprayed and turned into collages.
The themes are philosophical observations from the fields of science, society and literature.
Awarded a scholarship from the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture for visualising sustainable pasture and forestry in Mongolia, his thesis was an interdisciplinary work exploring possible ways in which visual communication could help convey scientific findings to illiterate people. His prints have featured in regional exhibitions in Hesse since 2006 and more widely since 2010. His practice includes painting, woodcutting, screen printing and etching.
His realistic paintings are based on his own photographs, trying to capture the atmosphere of everyday moments, and paradoxically being rooted in both the present feelings of emptiness and uncertainty as wel
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Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Peter Fischli & David Weiss (Fischli b. 1952, Weiss 1946–2012)
Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss were born in Zürich in 1952 and 1946, respectively. Fischli graduated from the Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna in 1977 and Weiss from the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich in 1964. The artists established a collaborative partnership in the late 1970s. Their humorous and playful works, in a wide variety of mediums such as photography, sculpture, installation and video, challenge traditional notions of the art object and the artist himself. Throughout their oeuvre, everyday objects and experiences are removed from their traditional contexts and transformed into something new, becoming involved in alternative narratives that emphasize the subjective nature of art and the art object. In their work, irony and contradiction are often present and things are not always what they seem. Fischli and Weiss are best known for the film The Way Things Go (1987), in which everyday household and art studio objects interact with
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David Weiss (novelist)
For other people named David Weiss, see David Weiss (disambiguation).
American novelist
David Weiss (1909 – November 29, 2002) was an American novelist and writer best known for his bestselling 1963 biographical novelNaked Came I about the life of sculptor Auguste Rodin.[1]
Biography
Born in 1909, from an early age Weiss showed an interest in the lives of artists and composers. His father was a painter,[2] and after Weiss was orphaned at the age of four he was raised in Philadelphia by an aunt who owned a Russian restaurant across the street from the Academy of Music.[3]
In 1933 he graduated from Temple University[4] and moved to New York, where he became private secretary to Erwin Piscator,[2] then head of the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research; whilst there Weiss did graduate work in dramatics and became an assistant director during the early days of the Actors Studio.
Following an unsuccessful career as an actor[4] Weiss worked at more than 50 jobs