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The Thinker

Title	The Thinker
Artist	ラインハルト・セビエ　Reinhardt SØBYE
Date	1993
Medium	crayon on paper with textiles and painted plexiglass
Dimensions	110.0×80.0
Classification	Watercolors and Drawings
Accession Number	FD199400003000
Summary	The bust portrait of a man line drawn on the paper was then applied to a textile collage and covered by polychromed acrylic panel. This work made from many layers and many mixed techniques is said to have taken two years to complete. A scared and shabby "thinker”, this figure floats out of the thin darkness in a hard, three-dimensional form. To borrow the artist's own words, an awareness of "Man's paradoxical and tragical existence" was the starting point for this work, and this surely is a comment on the position of the thinker in today's wretched society. Søbye painted the portraits of a number of fictitious people, and in his works these figures appear with an unforgettable sense of presence, one of firmness encompassing both strength and beauty. In that sense we can also see how, like his fellow Norwegians Munch and Ibsen, this work allows omens of bright hope to emerge from the dark shadows of reality.

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Native place	Oslo, NOR
Birth	1956
Biography	Born in Oslo. Norway. Specialized in psychology at Bergen University for 6 years, but then abandoned his studies immediately before his final examinations, turning to painting instead. Setting out to be a painter through his own studies, began to exhibit works around 1985. Then just a short two years later, he was invited to enter work it the 100th Anniversary Jubilee for the National Autumn Exhibition. He garnered the art world's attention by winning the First Prize for his “Head of Christ” which was then purchased by the National Gallery. Then held a number of one-man shows in both Norway and England. Was first introduced in Japan in 1994 with an exhibition at the Toho Gallery, followed by a series of regular one-man shows at the gallery. In 1999, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Odakyu Museum in Tokyo, Shimonoseki City Art Museum and the Kariya City Art Museum, and he is known today as one of Norway's representative painters.

The Thinker

Reinhardt SØBYE