| 1923 | born in Sønderborg, Denmark |
| 1941/42 | sent to Gestapo custody in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp |
| 1938-40 | commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg |
| 1946 | private pupil with the painter Ewald Becker-Carus in Hamburg |
| 1947-49 | Studies at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg with Willem Grimm and Maria May |
| 1950 | experiments with various ink techniques |
| 1951 | he adopts the artist name Sonderborg |
| 1953 | member of the artist group "ZEN 49 |
| 1958 | Participates in the Venice Biennale; moves to Paris |
| 1959 | Participates in documenta II |
| 1960 | Prize for printmaking at the Tokyo Biennale |
| 1963 | Grand International Prize for Drawing at the Biennale in São Paulo |
| 1964 | Participation in documenta III |
| 1965 | Moves to Stuttgart |
| 1965-1990 | Professor of painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with interruptions (leaves of absence) |
| 1969/70 | Visiting professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
| from 1980 | four years prorector of the Stuttgart Academy |
| 1986 | Visiting professor at the Art Institute in Chicago |
| 1988 | Hans Moltener Prize |
| 2008 | died in Hamburg |
ARTISTS
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Art after 1945
K.R.H. Sonderborg
Available works
Big city impressions, triggered by stays in Paris, London and New York, environmental sounds and jazz - his father is a jazz musician - play a central role in Sonderborg's work. Since the early fifties, Sonderborg has come into contact with American action painting. With spontaneous application of paint, he achieves the depiction of a structural fabric that makes form visible in a state of becoming. Thus Sonderborg's work is far closer to American gestural painting than to European Informel.
Next to Gerhard Hoehme, K. O. Götz, Bernhard Schulze, Hann Trier and Peter Brüning, Karl Rudolf Hoffmann from Sonderborg (Denmark) is one of the most important and powerful representatives of German informal painting. Painting and drawing process leave visible traces. His pictorial inventions transform matter through the speed and rapid force of the order into energy, which remains palpable even before the lithographs and etchings.
5 Lithographies de K.R.H. Sonderborg, 1976
Composition, to Franz Kafka's "America, 1965
Compositon, 1961
Electric chair, 1974
Franz Kafka, "Oklahoma, 1992
Untitled, 1958
Untitled, 1959
Untitled, 1965
Untitled, 1966
Untitled, 1967
Untitled, 1967
Untitled, 1967
Untitled, 1972
Untitled, 1974
Untitled, 1976
Untitled, 1976
Untitled, 1976
Untitled, 1976
Untitled, 1976
Untitled, 1977
Untitled, 1989
Untitled, 1991
Untitled, 1991
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