My life and my perceptions are the subjective drivers for the pictures I make. Making a painting is, for me, an exploratory process toward understanding, not an expository declaration of a position already held. Thus, I don’t make pictures with a specific content in mind. I distrust intentions; mine more than anyone else’s. Far more important is the subjective content that is revealed regardless of one’s intentions. I have said that I start pictures with a hunch, just a positive feeling that a certain subject might be wonderful, or some composition interesting, or some quality of color special. (Maybe “wonderful,” “interesting” and “special” could be called the intentions?) For me the content is discovered during the process, maybe developed further, but it is seldom known at the beginning. There is a deep satisfaction when a picture is finished and at that point I usually understand what kind of statement I have made.
I grew up with art, and books, in the house: my father was a professional sculptor and my mother was a part time painter. I owe a great deal to the ambiance of that household, to my parents and to their encouragement; but above all to the books. There were so many books in that house, all kinds of books, encyclopediae and dictionaries, books on nature, music, literary classics and art. There were many years of National Geographics, which my father rescued from the trash during a public library clean-out. As a childI already knew a great deal of the work by Rodin, Velasquez, Giotto and many others, although I couldn't properly pronounce their names.
Since then I have earned several degrees and I've taught in a major art school for many years. I discovered Caravaggio while living in Rome in 1974-76. And I rediscovered him again in 2001-03. I have had the good fortune to know, and learn from, many of my colleagues and all of my students. Yet when I began to write a short biographical sketch that included events significant to my career, I could not resist writing about that house in which I grew up, and all those books.
Art Institute of Chicago
Ball State University Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, State Univ. of New York, Purchase, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Free Library
J. B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University Art Museum
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
American Embassy, Tokyo
St. Paul Council of the Arts
Carlton College, Northfield, MN
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
American Telephone and Telegraph,NYC
Amity Art Foundation, Woodbridge, CT
ARA Services, Inc., New York
ARCO Chemical Corp., Philadelphia, PA
The Boston Company, Boston, MA
Chemical Bank, New York
Citibank, New York
Gallerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Intrav, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Kemper Insurance Co., Chicago
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
Meidinger, Inc., Louisville, KY
Met Life, Inc., New York,NY
Michigan Bell, Inc.
Moody’s Investment Service, Inc. NYC
Price Waterhouse, Philadelphia, PA
Readers Digest, Inc., New York, NY
Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, AK
2017
Daniel Dallmann, Recent Work, Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Still-Life-Space, paintings: Daniel Dallmann, Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Time and Space: 27 works by Daniel Dallmann..., Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA
2012
18 Little Paintings, Galleria La Linea Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2011
From Life:Large Works by Daniel Dallmann, Grey Gallery, Williamsport, PA
Self Images - Paintings, The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Self Images - Paintings and Drawings, Greestone Gallery, Lincolnshire, UK
2008
Spoons - Paintings by Daniel Dallmann, Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2001
Daniel Dallmann, Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia
1998
Dancers and Dreamers, Lied Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
Little Sleepers and Other Small Works -Paintings, Prints & Drawings, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1997
Paintings and Drawings, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
The Kendall Gallery of Miami-Dade Community Colleges, Miami, FL
1994
Paintings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1993
Etchings, Lithographs & Drawings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
New Paintings, Tatistcheff & Co., New York, NY
1989
Recent Work, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Ltd., Chicago, IL
1988
Recent Figure Works: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1987
Recent Paintings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Landscapes & Portraits, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1984
Recent Paintings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Selected Prints, 1974-1981, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1980
Recent Paintings, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Gallery Four, Alexandria, VA
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Gallery Four, Alexandria, VA
1974
Ronnie Brenner Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1973
Kramer Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Hemingway Gallery, Nantucket, MA
1972
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
2024
The Naked Show, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Painted, the 4th Biennial Exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH
2018
24th Annual Texas National, Nacogdoches, TX
Juror: Jed Perl
1st Prize
2017
2017 National Juried Exhibition, The First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Fight or Flight group exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
HEAD ON: a Select Exhibition of Self Portraits, Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
2016
The Nude Figure: Group Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2014
86th Grand National Exhibit, American Artists Professional League, Salmugundi Club, New York, NY
6th National Exhibition of Figurative Painting, Degenstein Gallery of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2013
5th Annual NUDE at Manifest, Manifest Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
9th Annual National Self Portrait Exhibition, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
Paintings by Daniel Dallmann & Arnoldus Gruter, The Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
(Catalog)
1984
Conjuring Reality; The Paintings and Drawings of Daniel Dallmann and Paul Wiesenfeld, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
(Catalog)
1977
Daniel Dallmann, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
