Aloys Ohlmann

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Self-portrait by Aloys Ohlmann from his Macabre dance of death

Aloys Ohlmann (born March 9, 1938 in Baltersweiler in Saarland ; † September 16, 2013 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After finishing school in 1953, Ohlmann did an apprenticeship as a painter in his father's company, which he completed as the best of the guild. He received his first artistic training from 1956 to 1957 with Oskar Holweck . He attended the sculpture class of Theo Siegle and the master school in Saarbrücken. He also studied the subjects of work theory and art education .

From 1958 to 1960 he studied painting with Boris Kleint at the Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken and attended the master school at the same time. Aloys Ohlmann studied academy and attended a technical college for painters and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (Wehlte Institute) between 1961 and 1963. In 1965, he began teaching as an art and craft educator at the Oberthal secondary school (Saar) , from 1967 to 1970 he held a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken in the painting class until it closed.

In 1968 he became a co-founder of Group 7 . Other founding members included a. Paul Antonius, Heinz Diesel and Seiji Kimoto . He also founded the gallery in the Zwinger in St. Wendel with others in 1976 . In the late 1970s he worked in the Mail Art network . Aloys Ohlmann took on a second appointment as a teacher from 1983 to 1991 at Saarland University in the field of art and art education. In 1987 he called on the Mail Art network to participate in the auction of paintings for Africa . 250 artists from 29 countries responded to this call. Approx. The auction raised 100,000 DM as proceeds. The pictures for Africa were exhibited in 1989 at the initiative of Ohlmann in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden and in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig .

In 2000 he initiated the exhibition Mail Art Saarland - GDR: Schmuggelgut oder Kassiber? the Saarland University and State Library Saarbrücken.
Ohlmann was married and lived in Baltersweiler in northern Saarland.

Dance of death

In 1983 Aloys Ohlmann created 14 screenprints for the text of the Lübeck Dance of Death from 1463. The first publication of the works was planned for the musical Dance of Death by Hugo Distler . Bernd Philippi describes it in his essay Aloys Ohlmann Wort und Bild - artist books with the words: “While in the traditional dance of death sequences the 'social phenotypes': craftsmen, pastors, popes, emperors, dukes, abbots etc. according to their social ranking from death to When asked to dance, Ohlmann gives the dance a different twist: In the undergrowth of lines, death, the skeleton, no longer seems to be so dominant; he seems to get tangled up in the chaos of the world. "

Awards

In 2003 Ohlmann received the Mia Münster Prize from the city of St. Wendel

literature

  • Aloys Ohlmann. Enveloppes 365 days of unique books, mail art and poems . Publisher: Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, 1983 ISBN 978-3-937046-31-0
  • Encouragement to seek the distance. With 8 original lithographs by Aloys Ohlmann Buch-Unikate, Mail Art und Gedichte Verlag: Editions Voix, 1984
  • Brigitte Quack: Outside the window. Never seen pictures by Aloys Ohlmann. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of March 25, 2014, p. B4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. Retrieved September 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Ohlmann, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltersweiler
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2013