Alfred Grimm

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Alfred Grimm (born June 16, 1943 in Dinslaken ) is a German object artist , painter and draftsman .

Life and artistic work

Grimm studied painting and sculpture with Karl Bobek and Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He became known for his variation , crucifix and TV objects .

One of the hallmarks of Grimm's art is that he repeatedly creates series of objects, drawings or paintings with similar motifs. In the object cycle “A beautiful piece of Germany” the artist presents z. B. Artificial cake pieces of a special kind on plates, which show the viewer bitingly ironic realities from Germany. In his crucifix cycle, real crucifixes are redesigned and given additional motifs in such a way that critical and sometimes sarcastic statements about the pious religiosity of our day are made. For his TV series he uses cannibalized old television sets, in whose housing he creates miniature landscapes on various topics.

Until his retirement in early 2005, he taught art at the Dinslaken Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . In addition, he still works as a freelance artist. Alfred Grimm lives in Hünxe .

The most famous public works by Alfred Grimm are:

  • the object window for the Protestant church "Our Arche" in Hünxe - Bruckhausen (1992), which for the first time in the context of church art expands traditional glass painting by integrating everyday objects into an object window ,
  • the large bronze memorial in memory of the former Jewish community in Dinslaken (1993),
  • the outdoor sculpture for the Sparkasse of the Homburg communities in Wiehl (2000),
  • the memorial for the Clement sister Euthymia in the park of the St. Vinzenz Hospital in Dinslaken (2001),
  • the outdoor sculpture “construction site” for the sculpture mile of the city of Dinslaken (2002, owned by Stadtwerke Dinslaken).
  • the outdoor sculpture for the 100th anniversary of the Steinhoff company , Kaltwalzen, Dinslaken (2008)
  • the outdoor sculptures “Mahnsteine” in memory of Jewish citizens from Dinslaken for the commemorative year 2013

So far the artist has participated in 69 solo exhibitions and 130 group exhibitions in Germany, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the USA. So far, 11 individual catalogs and 50 joint catalogs have been published, as well as over 800 press articles in Germany and abroad. So far, his work has been reported in nine radio and sixteen TV programs .

One of Alfred Grimm's students is the cartoonist and Disney draftsman Andreas Deja .

Catalogs

  • Klaus Battke / Martin Müller: Alfred Grimm: Drawings, Objects, Painting , Dinslaken 1985
  • Karl-Heinz Koch: Alfred Grimm: drawings, objects, painting , Emmerich 1988
  • Ralf Schreiner: Object window "Our Arche" , Hünxe 1992
  • Anna-Louise Mathieú: Alfred Grimm: Pictures, Objects , Rees 1992
  • Alfred Grimm: Small things, objects and pictures , Berlin 1993
  • Alfred Grimm: Pictures, Objects , Dinslaken 1996
  • Anna-Louise Mathieú / Werner Arand / Bernd Krysmanski: Alfred Grimm: Kunst-Baum-Kunst , Wesel 1997
  • Joachim Schneider: Alfred Grimm: Everyday, Images and Objects , Rees 1998
  • Joachim Schneider: Alfred Grimm: Series.Folgen.Reihen , Dinslaken 2007
  • Bernd Krysmanski: Alfred Grimm: "Grimms Mädchen", Wesel 2008
  • Alfred Grimm: Crucifix Objects . Kamp-Lintfort 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German object artist, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinslaken