Diethard Sohn
JournalFrom the studio
New works, exhibitions, projects and texts on Comic Cubism.
At the beginning of the 1990s, ‘ditArdo’ developed his characteristic artistic language of ‘comic-cubism’. The term ‘comic-cubism’ was then coined by Fred Feuerbacher in 2004 in connection with ditArdo’s paintings in front of a wide audience.
ditArdo is pleased to participate in the exhibition of the JAZZ`N`ART-Festival Plauen 2025.
Thank you very much for the post on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the link to a website and the lovely praise for my […]
Following the public commission from the town of Leonberg to paint a portrait of “Sophie Scholl” for the Sophie Scholl School in Leonberg, I have now received another commission for a school project.
Pablo Picasso was already impressed by Rudolf Dirks and other US American comic artists, and so there has always been an art-historical link between the comic strip and ‘Cubism’, which was celebrated as revolutionary.
My childhood in the 60s, like that of so many others of my generation, was characterized by comic figures, ‘pop art’, chewing gum and Coca-Cola. But while other children struggled with English, Latin or physics at school, I used every minute of my time at school to draw, namely ‘comics’.
A pseudonym, an avatar, an artist name, a brand, a label – ‘ditArdo’ consciously chosen and based on my own life story.