About the artist:

1957 Born in Essen, Germany 1975 - 1979F.H. Dortmund Art School, Germany 1980 - 1982Dusseldorf Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany 1983 - 1988Painting Lecturer at F.H. Dortmund Art School, Germany 1995Emigrated, New York 1998Visiting Artist, College of Charleston, SC Selected Exhibitions 2004Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York (solo) 2002 - 2003CorpoRealities, Cornell Fine Art Museum, Rollins College, FL (group) 2003 Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL (group) 2002Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC 2001Louis Stern Fine Arts, W. Holltwood, CA (group) Portraits; David Stern & Edvins Strautmanis, Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC 2000Louis Stern Fine Arts West Hollywood, CA 1999Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art New York, NY Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston Charleston, SC 1998National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Center for the Arts Arkansas (group) Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany (group) 1997About Face, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC (group) Galerie Joachim Bluher, Cologne, Germany One of a Kind, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC (group) 1996Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art New York, NY Galerie Joachim Bluher, Cologne, Germany (group) Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany (group) 1994 - 1995Kunstverein Guetersloh, Germany 1995Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany 1994National Jewish Museum Washington, DC Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany Galerie X Sadie Bierl, Munich, Germany 1993International Monetary Fund Art Society, Washington, DC Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany 1992Hungarian National Gallery Budapest, Hungary Kunstsammlung Universitat Goettingen, Germany 1991Galerie Welz, Salzburg, Austria Martin Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool, England Literature 2004David Grosz, Human Figures, Broken and Restored, The Forward, March 18 2003Ivette M. Yee, Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, May 2 George Kinghorn, Catalogue Essay, Skin Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL Karen Wilkin, Partisan Review, Spring 2002Blake Eskin, A Passion for Impasto, ARTnews, Summer Monica Strauss, ,I>David Stern Paints A Moment of Community in ‘The Gatherings’, Aufbau, September 5 Karen Wilkin, Partisan Review, Winter Tom O’Day, Exhibition Essay, Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA 2001Monica Strauss, Aufbau, April 2000Karen Wilkin, Partisan Review, Summer Lance Esplund, Art in America, June David Pagel, L. A. Times, May 5 1999Mario Naves, New York Observer, Nov Karen Wilkin, Mitchell Cohen, Catalogue essays, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art Mitchell Cohen, David Stern’s Cosmos, Dissent, Fall Frank Martin, The Post & Courier, Charleston, SC, September 18 Mark Sloan, Exhibition essay, College of Charleston, SC 1998David Ebony, Top Ten, Artnet, April Lance Esplund, Working the Paint, Modern Painters, Spring 1997Hearne Pardee, ARTnews, January 1996Dominique Nahas, Review, September 30 Jeanne C. Wilkinson, Review, September 15 Die Kraft der Erscheinung, Aufbau, September 13 1995Sascha Brodsky, Downtown Express, May 1994 Marc Scheps, Director, Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Dr Avraham Ehrlich, Cologne; Ori Soltes, Director, National Jewish Museum, catalogue essays David Stern, Identity and Relationship, National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC Rolf Birkholz, Guetersloher Tagesblatt, November Tagesspiegel Berlin, November 5 C.J. Sueddeutsche, Zeitung, October 1993Christina Wendenburg, Berliner Morgenpost, February 2 Catalogue, David Stern at the IMF, Washington, DC Feature, Sonntagsgespraeche with Karl L. Wolff, WDR Television 1992 Professor Dr. Karl Arndt; Gudrun Meyer, catalogue essays David Stern in the Art Collection of the University of Goettingen, Germany Professor Dr. Karl Arndt, Goettingen; Dr. Avraham Ehrlich, Cologne; Juergen Kisters, Cologne, catalogue essays David Stern, Study for a Way, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Juergen Kisters, Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger, October 16 Peter Krueger-Lenz, Goettinger Tageblatt, March Cornel Wachter, Goettlinger Tageblatt, March 11 1991Juergen Kisters, Kunst Koeln, April Juergen Kisters, Kunstforum, September 1990Wim Cox, Koelner Kunstler im Portrait, Cologne, Germany 1989Kunstler in Koeln, Hrsg. Artothek der Stadtbuecherei Koeln u.a. Cologne 1988Feature, Aktuelle Stunde, WDR 3 Television, Fall