Shwan Kamal

Summary

Shwan Kamal was born in the city of Sulaimaniyya in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1967. He is a Kurdish and German artist and sculptor.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

schwan kamal 2008-Germany
پییکرری فواریی دادپرورورری, فوپرترتاڵ ئللمانمانیا 2011
Shwan Kamal 2011

Life and career edit

 
Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen

Shwan Kamal was born in the city of Sulaimaniyya south of Kurdistan He studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts. He obtained a diploma in sculpture with honors degree and obtained a Bchelor from the Academy of Fine Arts from the University of Baghdad in 1991.[7] studied the art of sculpture at the hands of great artists and professors such as Dara Hama Saeed, Ismail Fattah Al-Turk, Muhammad Ghani Hikmat, Saleh Qargoli and Mortada Al-Haddad After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1991, he returned to the city of Sulaymaniyah and worked as a teacher in the Fine Department of Sculpture until 1994, after the outbreak of the civil war in Kurdistan and the deterioration of the political situation he immigrated to Turkey and then to Greece and settled in Germany since 1995 and obtained German citizenship From 1995 to 2000 he worked as an artist in the foundry (Raymond Keitel) in Düsseldorf, after 2000 until 2015 he worked in the foundry (Rolf Kayser (Kunstgießer)) after a year 2015 Shawan moved to the Kingdom of Sweden, so far he lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.[8] In 2018 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in plastic arts and sculpture.[9]

Work edit

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, Shawan Kamal set up many artistic projects and statues in many cities in Kurdistan, Iraq and Europe.[10]

Projects in Kurdistan and Iraq edit

After completing his studies of art in 1991, Shwan had a dream of having projects, artworks and memorials in Kurdistan, and he made some of these works until the outbreak of the civil war and its migration to Europe, from these works and statues:

 
shwan kamal, at work Sherkos bikas statue
  • 1992 Statue of the engineer (Hama Saaded) in front of the electricity department building in Sulaymaniyah.
  • 1992 Statue of Tawfaq Kahraba, who was killed in the bombing with chemical weapons in Halabja.
  • 1993 Statue of (xala Hajji) in Al-Aqari area in the city of Sulaymaniyah.
  • 1993 The monument of (shahidane chiman) in the Khanqa Falket in the city of Sulaymaniyah.
  • 1994 Statue of (Bakhtiar al-Askari) in the Iskan locality in the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
  • 2013 The statue of Justice (Eustasia) in front of a court building in the city of Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region.
  • 2014 The statue of the great poet Sherko Bekas in front of Sardam Building in Salem Street in Sulaymaniyah.
  • 2015 the memorial to the Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas on his last resting place in Azadi Park in the center of Sulaymaniyah.

Projects in Germany and Sweden edit

 
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy memorial in Düsseldorf
 
Shwan Kamal with Arnold Ross statue
 
Elberfelder ritter
  • Between 1995 and 2015 for a period of 20 years, Shwann made many statues and monuments in German cities, however he made a large number of statues for the Rolf Kayser foundry in Düsseldorf, the history of this foundry dates back to the fifties of the last century. He made statues and cast them out of metal for many of the great international artists such as (Tony Cragg, Thomas Schütte, Katrina Frege and Macdelina Abakanovich of Poland) and others. During the Second World War, most German cities were destroyed and destroyed as a result of the bombing of the Allied forces, and many historical statues had been removed from existence. In recent years, the German authorities have re-made many of these statues and monuments. Schwann recreated these statues and erected memorials in German cities.[11]
  • 2002 Monument to the people's musician and singer (Gustav Adolf Uthmann) in the North Park in Wuppertal.[12]
  • 2009 Monument to Faris (Arnold Ross).[13] in the Rathaus building of Wuppertal.
  • 2010 Statue (Justice) on the right side of the main gate of the Rathaus building of the city of Wuppertal.
  • Statue (The Truth) on the left side of the main gate of the Wuppertal Rathaus building.
  • 2011 statue (helping the poor).[14] the center of the city of Wuppertal in the Church Square.
  • 2011 Statue (Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen.[15] the Republic Square in the city of Wuppertal, Germany.[16]
  • 2012 Statue of the world musician (Felix Mendelssohn) in front of the Opera Palace building in Düsseldorf.
  • 2017 Statue (ulla jacobsson) for the Mölndal city of Göteborg.[17][18]
  • 2019 statue (the city of Ahos in the 14th century) in the form of relief is currently in front of the museum of the city of Åhus.[19] in the Skåna land of the Kingdom of Sweden.
  • 2020 Statue (drummer on elephant sculpture).[20] in the Folks Park in Malmö, Kingdom of Sweden.[21]
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    Felix mendelssohn
  • 2022 Creation of a bronze award for photography called the Kamran Award at the request of Metography.[22]
  • 2022 Creation of a bronze prize for Teater text called the Dana Rauf Award at the request of the Kepr Publishing Center.[23]
  • 2023 Karo Literary Award for Kurdish writer Hussein Arif[24]

References edit

  1. ^ Der Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (26 June 2012). "Denkmal-Wuppertal.de". denkmal-wuppertal.de (in German).
  2. ^ Schneider, Von Annika (7 July 2009). "Ritter Arnold: Sein Ross ist schon fast fertig". Westdeutsche Zeitung.
  3. ^ (Fotos), Von Helga Meister (Text) und Bernd Nanninga (12 March 2010). "Große Kunst aus einem Guss". Westdeutsche Zeitung.
  4. ^ Bildende Kunst. "Kulturportal – schwan kamal | Bildende Kunst | Neuss". kulturportal.de.
  5. ^ A Kurdish sculptor. "Recreate the lost sculptures while World War Two". pukmedia.com.
  6. ^ Shwan Kamal, Kurdish Sculptor. "Sulaymaniyah south of Kurdistan, He lives and works now in Germany". kurdistanart.
  7. ^ [1], shwan kamals biografi.
  8. ^ shwan, art work of shwan kamal.
  9. ^ kamal homepage, additional text.
  10. ^ shwan kamal
  11. ^ Kurdish sculptor is rebuilding sculptures destroyed during World War II, PUKmedia.
  12. ^ text, Künstler Schwan Kamal rekonstruiert
  13. ^ Ritter Arnold: Sein Ross ist schon fast fertig Artikel von Annika Schneider 7 July 2009 in der Westdeutschen Zeitung. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  14. ^ Ein Stück Elberfelder Geschichte kehrt heim at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-04-11) Zeitungsausschnitt der Wuppertaler Nachrichten auf kunstgiesserei.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018 (pdf).
  15. ^ [2], dem dort wirkenden Bildhauer Schwan Kamal.
  16. ^ Der Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (2012) Skulpturbeschreibung auf denkmal-Wuppertal.de. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  17. ^ ytterligare text.
  18. ^ ytterligare text.
  19. ^ [3] Upptäck medeltiden med dagens teknik.
  20. ^ glömde pukslagaren får till slut sin plats i staden, additional text.
  21. ^ "Den glömde pukslagaren får till slut sin plats i staden". December 2019.
  22. ^ ytterligare text.
  23. ^ ytterligare text.
  24. ^ "خەڵاتی کارۆ بە حسێن عارف دەبەخشرێت".

External links edit

  • Biography and Artistic Profile of Shwan Kamal in English