SID GASTL
b. 1959, GermanySid Gastl (born in Nürnberg in 1959), studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. He received numerous prizes and awards, including a 2003 grant from Deutscher Kulturfonds, and the 2003 Woldermar-Winkler-Preis, and in 2017 the Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten. In addition to numerous solo and group shows in galleries, his works has been shown at Kunstverein Göppingen and Kunstverein Würzburg in 2013. In 2024, Ortner & Ortner Baukunst Berlin dedicated an exhibition to him, as did the Burkhard Brunn Collection in Frankfurt/Main. His work can be found in the Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus as well as in private collections, including the collections Wemhöner Herford/Berlin, Herzog Franz von Bayern Munich, Dr. Burkhard Brunn, Frankfurt/M, Nicola Gräf, Berlin, Stefan Glampe, Berlin, and Bernd von Geldern, Hamburg/Berlin.
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