BIOGRAPHY

Douglas Swan (1930-2000)

Douglas Swan was born in Connecticut, USA in 1930 of Scottish parents and moved to Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing his National Service he studied at the Dundee College of Art from 1943-1953. Here his teachers included the Landscape painter James MacKintosh Patrick and Hugh Adam Crawford. He then studied at the Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, under Ian Fleming. He also studied at Trinity College of Music in London.

Swan began exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, and was awarded the R.S.A Scholarship in London in 1954; It was here that he met and formed a lasting friendship with the artist William Scott (1913-1989). They painted together in Somerset and then in Cornwall. In 1958 he was awarded a British Council Scholarship for study in Italy.

He showed at the RSA, Young Contemporaries, London Group, Gimpel Fils, AIA, and had a series of one-man shows in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. He lived for years in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland and had a series of one-man shows. His works are held in public and private galleries/collections in Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Scotland and nationally.

In the late 1960's Swan moved to Germany with his wife Barbara and became an important 20th Century Abstract painter. In 1986 he was awarded the Kunststipendium des Stadt, a major award given annually by the City of Bonn. He died in 2000


1957Hilda's College, Oxford
1958Galerie Pater, Milano
1960McRoberts & Tunnard, London
1961/63/65Galeri Milione, Milano
1961/64Galerie Bernadi, Solothurn
1962Galerie san Rocco, Seregno
1963Galerie La Bussola, Turino
1964Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1965Galerie Penelope, Roma
1966Galerie Zinnober, Solothurn
1967Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum
1968Galerie Neue Pforte, Aachen
1971Gallerit Center, Antwerpen
Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt
1972/73Galerie Nebeluna, Dusseldorf
1972Galerie Reckermann, Koln
1972/74/77Galerie Kuckels, Bochum
1973/74New Smith Gallery, Bruxelles
1973IKI, Dusseldorf-Galerie 44, Buttgen
Galerie marzona, Bielefeld
1974Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin
1975Kunstverein Heidelberg Galerie Angst und Orny, Munchen
Galerie Lowenadler, Stockolm
1976Galerie Jurka, Amsteram
Aktionsgalerie, Bern
Galerie d'art, club 44, La chaux-de-Fonds
Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles
1977Studio Wolf, Essen
Galerie Schlegl, Zurich International Kunstmarkt, Koln
Galerie Linssen, Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein
1978Galerie Jollenbeck, Koln
Kunstmesse Basel, Galerie Linssen, Bonn
International Kunstmarkt, Dusseldorf, Galerie Linssen, Bonn
Hadendaasgse, Utrecht, Holland
Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
1979Kunstverein Braunschweig Stedelijke, Moriaan's
Hertogenbosch
Kunstverein, Bochum
Kunstverein, Pforzheim
1980Kunstkabinett, Cologne
1981Kunstverein Neunkerchen
1982Galerie frohlich, Koln
Galerie Buning, Hamburg
Galerie Nebelung, Dusseldorf
1983Saarlandsmusuem, Saarbrucken Kunstverein Unna
Studio A, Landkreis Unna
Galerie Von Borsig Prahl, Otterndorf
Grafik Kabinett, Museum Monchengladbach
Galerie Nebelung, Dusseldorf
1984 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
Galleria del Cavallino, Venedig Haus an der Redoute, Bonn
1985Galerie Pro Arte, Frieburg Kunst Verein, Melle
1985/86Galerie Hennemann, Bonn