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HARRY SCHNITZLER 

Multidisciplinary artist, award-winning composer and author.

Recipient of the 2021 New York City Artist Corps Grant

STATEMENT

 

My work is an exploration of the human condition, investigating various aspects and relationships between history, culture and art. Everything is expressed through relationship. Color can exist only through other colors, dimension through other dimensions, and position through other positions that oppose them. I use objects, photography and video, and compose music for my projects. I see them all as a vocabulary of feelings, just in different languages.

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Preparing for exhibition FROZEN MOMENTS IN TIME

Preparing for exhibition FROZEN MOMENTS IN TIME

Preparing for exhibition FROZEN MOMENTS IN TIME

BIO

Mr. Schnitzler's work has been extensively exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including Grove34 Gallery, NYC (2021), Parasol Gallery, NYC (2019), AOK Headquarter, Munich, Germany (2013), Opera Plage, Nice, France (2011), Hamburg Art Week (2011), Film Center New York (2010) and was published in numerous international magazines and newspapers, including Bomb Magazine, Nice Matin (France), Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Memoria Magazine (Japan), Art & Object, The Exberliner, Currents Magazine (Cover) and The Morning Call, among others. Most recently, some of his photographic work has been featured on three large billboards on Times Square.

 

Mr. Schnitzler’s composing credits include feature films like “Werner Volles Rohr” and "Under the Black Flagg", image films of Coca Cola, Kelloggs, BMW, Audi and Nestle as well as numerous TV series, such as “SimsalaGrimm”, which is one of Germany’s best-selling TV series internationally, and “Wildlife” for which he received the Berner Filmmusik award in 2000.

 

In the studio, he had the bliss of working with Deep Purple, Spandau Ballet, Robert Palmer, Tears for Fears, Limahl, John Paul Young and Oscar-winning film composers James Horner, Maurice Jarre and Giorgio Moroder.

 

Mr. Schnitzler’s avangard image films “I love Munich” (2009) and “I love New York” (2007) with their unique visual language were called “intoxicating imagery” by the press and aired internationally. 

 

Teaching credits include the Academy for Film and Television “HFF”, Potsdam/Germany and the University of Applied Science “BBW”, Berlin.

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Preparing for exhibition FROZEN MOMENTS IN TIME

EXHIBITIONS: (Selected)

2024      Saint Marks Art Gallery, East Village, New York (Time Scapes)

2024      Empire Outlets, New York (Tales of a Phoenix)

2024      Saint Marks Art Gallery, East Village, New York (71 Blocks & Urbanites)

2020     Grove34 Gallery, 34th Street, New York (Solo Exhibition)

2019      Parasol Gallery, Elizabeth Street, New York (Solo Exhibition)

2017      Corporate offices, Madison Avenue, New York (Solo Exhibition)

2016      SoHotel Gallery, Broome Street, New York (Solo Exhibition)

2013      Producers Club New York, USA (Solo Exhibition)

2013      AOK Headquarters Munich, Germany (Solo Exhibition)

2012      Producers Club New York, USA (Solo Exhibition)

2011       Hamburg Art Week, Germany

2011       Opéra Plage, Nice, France (Solo Exhibition)

2010      Film Center New York, USA (Solo Exhibition)

2010      Kunst am Spreeknie, Berlin, Germany 

2002     Check Point Galerie , Berlin Friedrichstrasse, Germany 

1995       Galerie im Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany (Solo Exhibition)

1994       Galerie im Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany

1994       Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany

1993       Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany

1992       Weissche Galerie, Munich, Germany (Solo Exhibition) 

1991        Weissche Galerie, Munich, Germany 

SCORE MUSIC: (Selected)

 

"Under The Black Flagg"-80-min feature, Universal Pictures, 2000

"Werner - Volles Rohr"-80-min feature, Achterbahn Film, 1999

"SimsalaGrimm"- 26 episodes, Greenlight AG, 1999

"Wildlife"-52 episodes, Hahn Film AG, 1998

"Renaade"-72 episodes, Hahn Film AG, 1996

"Haiopeis"- 42 episodes, Achterbahn Film, 1995

 

MUSIC FOR IMAGE FILMS/COMMERCIALS: (Selected)

Agfa, AOK, Audi, BMW, Bosch, Brekkies, Coppenrath & Wiese, Coca Cola, Cornelsen Publishing,

Deutsche Bundesbahn, Felix, Ford, Goretex,  Grey, Hamill Cigars, Keine Macht den Drogen, Kellogs,

Marlboro, Migros, McCann-Erikson, Nesquik, Pixelpark, Raiffeisenbank, Schwarzkopf, Siemens, UNICEF

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2000   “Berner Filmmusik Preis“ Swiss Award for Film Score Music

1978       Award winner “Nachwuchspreis der Deutschen Phono Akademie“ 

 

Awarded Program:

2004    BIMINI Award for the Feature Film "The Abrafaxe: Under the Black Flag"

2000    ARD (German national broadcasting network)  “Goldener Spatz“ for TV Series “SimsalaGrimm“

1999      BOGEY (Box Office Germany Award) for the Feature Film "Werner volles Rohr"

1999      ARD (German national broadcasting network)  “Goldener Spatz“ for TV Series “Wildlife“

1998      ARD (German national broadcasting network ) “Goldener Spatz“ for TV Series “Renaade“

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The young fella on the right is my grandpa Carl who wrote a book in 1906, with the title On a Journey.

A beautiful travel guide through Austria, Switzerland, and Bavaria.

I always had the feeling he was nudging me, "Come on, Sport, make it a family tradition; travel a bit and then write about what came your way. " So, I did. Hope you like it, Grandpa, and thanks for the boost!

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