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Sebastian Spreng (born April 6, 1956) is an Argentine-American visual artist and music journalist. ==Biography== Born in Esperanza, Santa Fe (Argentina) of German ancestry, is a self-taught artist (painter, illustrator, stage designer) and music journalist, related from his mother side to writer Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer (1935–2002), also a native of Esperanza, the first formally organized of the agricultural colonies in Argentina, formed by 200 families of immigrants from Switzerland, Germany, France and Luxembourg who arrived in 1856. () He spent his childhood in Esperanza and in the Argentinian countryside (the Pampas) and in the Atlantic Coast in Mar del Plata moving to Buenos Aires in 1973. At age 17 his works were exhibited in Buenos Aires in a group exhibit ''Artists from Esperanza'' at the ''Fundación Lowe''. The next year he had his first solo exhibit at ''Martina Cespedes Gallery'' in the San Telmo district of the Argentinean capital. The show was sold out on opening night and the gallery held his work exclusively for the next seven years. In 1978 he was the stage-designer for a theater production of Jean Cocteau's L'aigle à deux têtes (''The Eagle Has Two Heads'') starring Miguel Angel Sola in Buenos Aires and worked also as illustrator and designer. During the 1980s, he settled in Miami (Florida) - where he still lives and works - and has been a vital presence in the Florida art scene ever since. Since moving to Florida he had solo and group exhibitions in Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Toronto, Caracas, Düsseldorf, Essen, Munich, Osaka, Tokyo, Panama, Italy, Buenos Aires, Sarasota, Key West, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Miami. His works were included in the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum in the ''Paradise Lost'' exhibition, in the Miami-Dade Public Library System and in the show ''Latin-American Artists from Florida'' in the Palazzo Mediceo (Medici), Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy in 2002. His awards include the ''Hortt Competition'' at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the 1995 ''Personal Achievement Award'' from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the State of Florida. In 1994, he was commissioned by Metro-Dade Art In Public Places to create a permanent exhibition at the Miami-Dade Government Center. The series ''Nonet for the Long Journey'', is a memorial tribute to the ''American with Disabilities Trailblazers''. In 1998 (and 2004), Christie's New York auctioned his works among other Latin American Masters and his name was included in the book "Leonard's Price Index Latin American Art at Auction" by Susan Theran () In 2009 his work Daphne was selected for the book "Speak for the Trees" along 70 other artists including David Hockney, Christo, April Gornik, Yoko Ono, Julie Heffernan, Robert Longo, Mark Ryden, the Starn Brothers, etc.〔()〕 In 2012, he was selected as one of the "100 Latinos of Miami", along other personalities.〔http://100latinos.com/cien/latinos/100-latinoshispanos-miami-2011-2012/〕 and as 2013 Visual Artist of the 11th Edition of the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival.〔http://www.musicatmenlo.org/artists/Visual-Artist〕 For his contributions and merits in the South Florida art scene, he was awarded with the ''Dr. Sanford L. and Beatrice Ziff Outstanding Arts'' by Classical South Florida of 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sebastian Spreng」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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