Dieter Magnus

Dieter Magnus (2012)

Dieter Magnus (* 1937 in Schotten , Hessen ) is a German filmmaker, environmental artist and film director.

Magnus studied art history, biology and philosophy in Mainz and Saarbrücken and was trained as a sculptor. He developed from a painter to a film and object maker to an environmental artist who has the socially appropriate and ecological design of public spaces as his theme. Dieter Magnus lives in Wackernheim near Mainz.

Works (selection)

• Multimedia exhibition environmental art versus art environment Mainz (1977)
• The Green Bridge in Mainz Neustadt (1981)
• Exhibition Art and Natural Landscapes - Contributions to Urban Repair and Living Environment Design, shown in over 100 cities (1988-97)
• Garnethill Park in Glasgow (1990)
• Standard and place of the assembly in the Lausitz erratic boulder park Nochten (2007)
• "Feldkirchen Water Park - from the old forest swimming pool to the water park recreational game", Neuwied (2008/09)

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  Green Bridge Mainz, view from the Stadtwerke skyscraper, in the background the customs port and the Rhine

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  Green Bridge Mainz, view from Rheinallee, up the Rhine

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  Green Bridge Mainz, exit to Feldbergplatz and the Rhine, in the background the Feldberg School

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  The standard and place of the meeting in the Lausitz boulder park in Nochten

Awards

• Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Mainz (1969)
• Silver Adolf Grimme Prize for the television film Kitsch and Consumption (1974)
• Gold plaque from the Federal Ministry of Construction for the Mainz housing project "From distance green to residential garden" in Mainz (1990)
• Art award "Stadtkünstler von Unna". Concept for "Green axes, waterways and environmental art" in Unna (1991/92)
• Diploma of Excellence from the Scottish Civic Trust and The Time Environment Award for the planning and realization of Garnethill Park in Glasgow together with the city and the Goethe Institute (1992)
• Environment Regeneration Award, Scottish Natural Heritage (1995)
• Rubens Medal from UNESCO (1997)
• Gutenberg bust of the city of Mainz (1997)
• Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (2003)
• Max Slevogt Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (2007)
• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012)

Web links

• Homepage of Dieter Magnus and his exhibition StadtGRÜN & StadtKULTUR
• Literature by and about Dieter Magnus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reception to Dieter Magnus
• "Urban Green Artist" - Dieter Magnus and his Green Bridge (SWR 2012)
• Photo documentation of the Green Bridge in Mainz (2016)