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Two original prints by Sean Scully in cooperation with the White Rose Learning Center Association in Ulm.
Sean Scully, born in Dublin in 1945, is one of the most important abstract painters of his generation, whose works have been exhibited internationally for more than fifty years. The proceeds from the two prints will benefit the work of the White Rose Learning Center Association.
In the organ room of the Martin Luther Church in Ulm, members of the “White Rose” resistance group prepared the 5th leaflet for distribution in 1943. The organ room is one of three remaining authentic “White Rose” locations. A new learning center is being created here, which serves to inform young people and adults about the resistance group.
The German Bundestag has made one-off funds available for this facility. Additional funds are needed to network and equip this new location, which will be raised, among other things, through the sale of donated works of art. Sean Scully created the two etchings, each in an edition of 50. He generously donated 20 of these works of art to support the new learning center.
Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945 and grew up in London from the age of four. From 1960 to 1962 he trained as a printer and then studied from 1965 to 1973 at the Croydon College of Art in London, at Newcastle University and at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Scully’s first solo exhibition took place in 1973 at the Rowan Gallery in London and was a great success. In 1975 a scholarship enabled him to spend a longer period in New York, where he then began teaching at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. From 1977 to 1983 he taught at Princeton University in New Jersey. In 1938 he took American and Irish citizenship. From 1984 onwards, Sully became increasingly successful internationally. His works were shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and were part of important public collections. In 2024, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, dedicated a retrospective to him. From 2002 to 2007 he held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Sully lives and works in New York, Barcelona and Mooseurach.
“Freedom of speech, freedom of belief, protection of the individual citizen from the arbitrariness of criminal violent states, these are the foundations of the new Europe.”
– Fifth leaflet of the White Rose
