1. Julian Schnabel was born on October 26,1951 and is an American painter and filmmaker.
27 Facts About Julian Schnabel
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Julian Schnabel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, the son of Esta and Jack Julian Schnabel.
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Julian Schnabel moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas, in 1965.
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Julian Schnabel's application included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread.
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Julian Schnabel was admitted into the program and studied there from 1973 to 1975.
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In 1975, Julian Schnabel visited Galveston and was introduced to the artist Joseph Glasco who had his home and studio in Galveston at that time.
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Later in their relationship, Julian Schnabel influenced Glasco to set up his studio in New York, and in the late 1980s introduced Glasco to Leslie Waddington of Waddington Galleries, London, where he had an exhibition.
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Julian Schnabel returned to Houston in 1975 and rented a studio in the Heights neighborhood.
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Jim Harithas, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, agreed to give him a show after Julian Schnabel reportedly badgered him repeatedly.
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Julian Schnabel participated at the Venice Biennale in 1980 with Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz.
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Julian Schnabel uses diverse materials such as plaster, wax, photographs, antlers, velvet and ceramics.
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Julian Schnabel's paintings make use of canvas, wood, muslin and even surfboards.
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In 2002, Julian Schnabel painted the cover artwork for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album, By the Way.
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Julian Schnabel said that he wouldn't be offended if we didn't like it, but we loved what he did.
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Julian Schnabel had an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, which ran from September 1,2010, to January 2,2011, and occupied the entirety of the gallery's fifth floor.
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In 2011 Museo Correr exhibited Julian Schnabel: Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing, a selected survey show of Schnabel's career curated by Norman Rosenthal.
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Julian Schnabel began his film career in the 1990s with the film Basquiat, a biopic on the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, followed by Before Night Falls, an adaptation of Reinaldo Arenas's autobiographical novel, which he produced, and which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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Julian Schnabel directed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an adaptation of a French memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
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In 2007, Julian Schnabel designed Lou Reed's critically acclaimed "Berlin" Tour and released Lou Reed's Berlin.
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In May 2017, Julian Schnabel announced plans for a film about the painter Vincent van Gogh during his time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
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In September 2023, Julian Schnabel announced plans to direct an adaptation of In the Hand of Dante, based on the book by Nick Tosches.
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Julian Schnabel has twin sons, Cy and Olmo, with his second wife, Spanish actress Olatz Lopez Garmendia.
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Julian Schnabel was in a relationship with her from 2007 to 2011.
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Julian Schnabel dated Danish model May Andersen, from whom he parted ways in 2014.
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Julian Schnabel is the co-editor and co-writer of At Eternity's Gate.
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Julian Schnabel maintains studios in New York City and in Montauk at the east end of Long Island.
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In 2009, Julian Schnabel signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.