ArchiveComic Cubism
Author: ditArdo
ditArdo studierte Anfang der 80er Jahren an der Merzakademie in Stuttgart und tendierte in seiner künstlerischen Sprache zum Surrealismus. Ende der 80er, Anfang der 90er Jahre arbeitete er u. a. für das Atelier Stankowski und Geipel, illustrierte als Buchillustrator 1991 den Moorgeist und war bis 2004 Freier Dozent für gegenständliches Zeichnen an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart sowie an der Merzakademie Stuttgart (Hochschule für Gestaltung). Von 2005 bis 2007 hielt er sich auf Einladung eines indonesischen Freundes und Mäzens in Indonesien auf. Seit 2007 betreibt er sein Atelier wieder in Stuttgart.Zu Beginn der 90er Jahre entwickelte er die für ihn charakteristische Kunstsprache des ‚Comic-Kubismus‘.
2 Kunstpreise, 7 Kunstpreis Nominierungen,
Kunstausstellungen international. Kataloge.
JAZZ’N ART
ditArdo is pleased to participate in the exhibition of the JAZZ`N`ART-Festival Plauen 2025.
Attention from New York
Thank you very much for the post on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the link to a website and the lovely praise for my […]
comic cubism to schools
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.
Comic-Cubism as a concept and as a genre
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.
Role models and inspiration
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.
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH AND The FIRST COMIC-CUBISTIC PAINTINGS
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’.
‘ditArdo’ an Avatar?
A pseudonym, an avatar, an artist name, a brand, a label – ‘ditArdo’ consciously chosen and based on my own life story.