Bernd Zimmer

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Bernd Zimmer (born November 6, 1948 in Planegg near Munich) is a German painter and a representative of the New Wilds . He lives and works in Polling , Upper Bavaria (Germany), Piozzano , Italy and Warthe , Brandenburg.

Life

From 1968 to 1970 he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich. From 1970 to 1972 he was assistant for graphic design at Carl Hanser Verlag. In 1973 he moved to Berlin and began working as a book designer at the Klaus Wagenbach publishing house . He studied philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1975/1976 he stayed in Mexico and the southern United States for five months. He started his artistic work.

With Rainer Fetting , Helmut Middendorf , Salomé and others, Zimmer founded the artist self-help gallery Galerie am Moritzplatz in 1977 , which existed until 1981. In 1980, works by these so-called young wild animals were presented to the general public for the first time in the Berlin house on Waldsee under the title Heftige Malerei . In 1981 Bernd Zimmer was represented in the Rundschau Deutschland exhibition .

A grant from Villa Massimo took him to Rome in 1982 , where he lived and worked for almost two years. In 1984 he moved to Polling and moved into an apartment and studio in the Polling monastery . In 1991 he set up another studio in Monteventano in Emilia-Romagna . In 1993 the artist magazine PlantSÜDEN appeared for the first time in self-publishing , which he publishes together with Roland Hagenberg, Tokyo. Since 1993 Zimmer has toured the Sahara several times. In the desert images under this impression, Zimmer often drove formal reduction to the limit of abstract color field painting . In 1994 he moved his studio to Oberhausen in Upper Bavaria . In the summer of 1996 , the first sculptures were created during a stay in Salerno , Campania .

His interest in astronomy and physics led Bernd Zimmer to his Cosmos pictures in 1998 , which were created parallel to other picture cycles until 2006 and which were summarized in an illustrated book Cosmos: Pictures 1998-2006 . The first overview of his woodcuts is shown in 2001 in Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen. In 2006 the Kunsthalle Mannheim showed the first comprehensive exhibition of the Cosmos pictures. In 2007 Bernd Zimmer moved into another studio in the Brandenburg town of Warthe . Inspired by observing the lakes there, the reflection pictures were created.

In 2010 Zimmer took a trip to China, in 2011 he visited Vietnam and Cambodia. According to his own statements, he felt inspired by the lush vegetation of Asia and his preoccupation with Chinese painting and philosophy for the series of images of the Crystal Worlds. The Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, showed the Crystal Worlds and Reflection Pictures in 2012 for the first time in context. In December 2012, the Bernd Zimmer Art Foundation was recognized as a foundation under civil law. The aim of the foundation is to ensure the preservation of Bernd Zimmer's artistic work and to support its scientific research and regular public presentation.

He used a work trip to Davos to deal with Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner's "natural hero" Tinzenhorn , which is reflected in the Kirchner-reloaded pictures. Zimmer's Tinzenhorn cycle was exhibited in 2015 in the exhibition "Summit Meeting", which was under the patronage of Reinhold Messner , in the Buchheim Museum , Bernried, together with Kirchner's Davos pictures. The solo exhibition “Everything flows” in the Angerlehner Museum showed a selection of the work groups “COSMOS” and “Floating Light”. At the beginning of 2016, Bernd Zimmer traveled to India for the second time. Inspired by the Hindu temples, he took up the idea of ​​an artist portico again.

Since 2016 he has been working on the implementation of STOA169. In 2017 Bernd Zimmer made further trips to southern India's Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , to visit Hindu temples there. On the occasion of his birthday, the Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg, and the Museum Neue Galerie in Kassel paid tribute to Bernd Zimmer's work in 2018 with the extensive exhibition "Crystal World".

Scholarships

Quotes

“I transfer what has been seen, better experienced, in abstraction and fiction. Behind this is the desire to free the experience-oriented image from the representational, to get out of the context of the central perspective and to get into pure color painting. "

“I am convinced that representational painting - and I see myself in this tradition - still has the great opportunity to invent really new pictures. The objective reference is important, actually essential, in order to arrive at the new image. Painting is still free. But it is not trapped in the »art because of art«, but has a content-related carrier that then also carries the image. "

“If I'm stuck in one place for a long time, stuck in the studio, I come up against my limits. I formalize my pictures, get caught up in the vortex of art. (...) When this situation arises, a trip is due to strengthen my perception: I get into new contexts, don't have to play a role, don't have any responsibility, just for myself. It is always, in the truest sense of the word, about education and expanding awareness, not least about knowledge. "

“An image develops slowly, also an order, my cosmos arises (...) There are several pourings that lead to a depth that suggests the night sky. It appears impenetrable to us, deep dark black blue. This is likely due to our inability to see all of the radiation that comes from space. The receptors in our eyes are not sensitive enough. But the fossil, for us invisible radiation is omnipresent and permanent. This means that there is no night that belongs in the realm of appearance. Not the sky is dark, but our view. "

"My basic idea that basically everything solid consists of carbon and only has different shapes, whether it develops into a tree, a star or a living being in human form, is the fuel, the reason for my subjects."

- Museums of the city of Regensburg, municipal gallery in the empty bag, Reiner Meyer et al. (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. Crystal world. With contributions by Walter Grasskamp, ​​Bernd Küster, Nina Schleif and Gesa Wieczorek, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018, p. 63, ISBN 978-3-86832-450-1

"I want to understand - or at least guess - the privilege of our existence."

- Museums of the city of Regensburg, municipal gallery in the empty bag, Reiner Meyer et al. (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. Crystal world. With contributions by Walter Grasskamp, ​​Bernd Küster, Nina Schleif and Gesa Wieczorek, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018, p. 64, ISBN 978-3-86832-450-1

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Literature (selection)

  • Bernd Zimmer (Ill.), Bernhart Schwenk, Hubert Beck, Anuschka Koos, Tom Ising (Eds.): Bernd Zimmer. COSMOS. Pictures 1998-2006. Richter, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-937572-65-9 .
  • Georg Reinhardt (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. WOODCUT. Catalog raisonné 1985-2000. Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-87909-756-9 .
  • Hannelore Paflik-Huber (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. Painter. Origin color travel. Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-87909-791-7 .
  • Walter Grasskamp : Conversations with Bernd Zimmer. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-4130-9 .
  • Anuschka Koos (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. Pictures on canvas. Catalog raisonné 1976-2010. Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-3511-4 .
  • Anuschka Koos (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. WOODCUT. Catalog raisonné 2001-2012. Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-144-9
  • Daniel J. Schreiber (Ed.): Summit. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Bernd Zimmer. , Buchheim Verlag, Bernried 2015, ISBN 978-3-7659-1087-6 .
  • Johannes Holzmann (Ed.), Bernd Zimmer (Ill.): Bernd Zimmer. Everything flows. Painting. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2512-2 .
  • Museums of the City of Regensburg, Municipal Gallery in the Empty Bag, Reiner Meyer u. a. (Ed.): Bernd Zimmer. Crystal world . With contributions by Walter Grasskamp, ​​Bernd Küster, Nina Schleif and Gesa Wieczorek, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-86832-450-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. after: Supralunar ... Anuschka Koos in conversation with Bernd Zimmer, exhib.-cat. Mannheim 2006, p. 99
  2. ↑ cit. to: Unbilled - Tilled. An interview with Helmut Friedel and Bernd Zimmer, July 1989, in: Bernd Zimmer. Overview. Pictures 1986–1989, exhibition catalog Rottweil / Munich 1989, without pagination
  3. ↑ cited from: Walter Grasskamp, ​​Conversations with Bernd Zimmer, Munich 2008, p. 85 f.
  4. ↑ cit. after: Supralunar ... Anuschka Koos in conversation with Bernd Zimmer, exhib.-cat. Mannheim 2006, p. 101 f.
  5. ^ Frankfurter Kunstverein: Beuys in Frankfurt. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . and anvil for Mrs. Mao's knife. In: Frankfurter Stadtanzeiger. From November 4 and 6, 1976 ( PDF file ).
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Planegg near Munich