August Ohm

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August Ohm (born August 1, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German painter, draftsman and author.

life and work

August Ohm was initially trained by his father Wilhelm Ohm (1905–1965). He attended the Werkkunstschule Hamburg , the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin . He was artist in residence at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta .

August Ohm lives and works in Hamburg , Berlin and Florence . Contrary to the current trends of his youth, he repeatedly grappled with the historical models of Western painting. In 1998 the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts showed its “Pictures of Antiquity ” in an extensive solo exhibition, a series of partly large-format antique faces. Five years later, the Cranach House in Wittenberg presented Ohms heads based on paintings by Lucas Cranach .

The artist's main groups of works are illustrations of the apocalypse , images of the desert from Afghanistan , images of Rimbaud , images on the subject of “ Novalis and Music”, subjects: Sylt - Berlin - Tuscany - Venice , images of antiquity, homage á Botticelli , “faces” Cranach and pictures of Kleist's “Marionette Theater”.

literature

  • Ohm, August. In: Volker Detlef Heydorn : Painter in Hamburg. Volume 3: 1966-1974. Professional Association of Visual Artists, Hamburg (ed.). Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 , p. 137.
  • August Ohm. In: Elisabeth Axmann (Red.): Artists in Hamburg . Ed .: Hamburg Cultural Authority, Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-7672-0749-3 (not paginated).
  • August Ohm. In: Heinz Zabel : Plastic Art in Hamburg - Sculptures and sculptures in public space , 2nd edition, Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-923707-15-0 , p. 60.
  • Maike Bruhns : Ohm, August. In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , pp. 334–335.
  • Birgit Warringsholz: August Ohm - A Berlin artist family in Hamburg. ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-936406-41-2 .
  • Birgit Warringsholz: August Ohm - pictures and drawings. ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-936406-42-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on atelier-ohm.de
  2. ^ The Ohm painter's studio, a center for art lovers. In: Die Welt , October 25, 1999
  3. ↑ August Ohm exhibits in Kamp-Hüs. In: Sylter Rundchau , August 14, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Ohm, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin