Christoph Napp-Zinn

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Christoph Napp-Zinn (* 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist , graphic designer and design educator .

Career

During his studies in art history at the University of Cologne and art education at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, he attended additional courses in the courses of classical philology , biology and geography . In 1981 he received a scholarship from Johannes Gutenberg University for his interdisciplinary and cross-technical innovations.

Delegated to Luxembourg by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture, he is the first art educator to give simultaneous trilingual art lessons there. With two colleagues, he is in charge of drafting a curriculum that still sets binding guidelines in all European schools in the field of visual arts. (See European Schools )

In 1991 he advised the German Design Council in Frankfurt on the publication of the catalog and the exhibition of the same name, Design in School Classes . In 1993 he and two colleagues at Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart, published the textbook Design , which is now considered a standard work. In 1994 he was given a teaching position at the Institute for Teacher Training in Mainz on the subject of 'Design in Art Classes'.

Harald Strutz, President of 1. FSV Mainz 05 , commissioned him in 1984 to design a poster that was to give the club a completely new public image over the years: as the first German professional soccer club, people adorn themselves with art Posters.

In 2004, the post of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was commissioned to design a stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the European School in Luxembourg.

job

When it comes to nudes , architecture and movement , Christoph Napp-Zinn uses the camera as an indispensable pictorial tool. He prefers to use lines, arrangement and perspective as independent design elements .

Exhibitions

  • Mainz and Cologne 1984: 'Fashion and Media',
  • Landstuhl 1989 'Movement in Pictures',
  • Cologne 1993 'Second hand',
  • Luxemburg 1998 'Flying, Lying, Falling', 2000 'Odyssey', 2004 'Numbers Games', 2007 'Blue Stag Mega Hype' (group exhibition),
  • Sulzfeld 2007 'Nine Eleven and the day after'.

Numerous works are in public ownership (e.g. Gutenberg Museum in Mainz) or in private collections.

literature

  • Martin Bruckner, Klaus Ehm, Christoph Napp-Zinn: Design. Workbook for art classes from grade 7 . Leipzig 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Napp-Zinn, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, graphic designer and design educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart