Dieter Simon (artist)

Dieter Simon (* 1937 in Grünberg i. Silesia , Province of Lower Silesia , † 1988 in Lünen ) was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist.

Life

Dieter Simon was severely disabled from birth due to the glass bone disease and was dependent on a wheelchair. After the end of the war in 1945 , his mother fled with him to her hometown Lünen, which from then on also became his permanent center of life until his death in 1988. From 1952 to 1958 he attended the Werkkunstschule Dortmund , which at that time was based in Buddenburg Castle in Lünen-Lippholthausen. One of his teachers was Max Guggenberger.

In his works, it is not exclusively his personal suffering, that of a disabled person, that determines the focus, but his pictorial motifs act in the knowledge of the physical pain and the fears and the triggers of these fears, which affect everyone. But he also created powerful, even funny drawings.

Works (selection)

• A moon for the laden, 1966
• Jesus before Pilate, 1965
• Clown, 1967
• Drunk Soldier, 1967
• The eternal game, 1971 (illustration / excerpt see newspaper report)
• Vietnamese Madonna, 1972
• 1982 year of the butterflies, 1982

Exhibitions

• 1967 Sparkasse Herne
• 1969 Lehmbruck Museum Mülheim
• 1971 Selm Church of Peace
• 1972/73 Vischering Castle
• 1973 AOK Aachen
• 1975/76 Vischering Castle, joint exhibition in the Coesfeld district
• 1993 St. Georg Community Center, Lünen (City of Lünen, Cultural Office)
• 2011 Museum of the City of Lünen

literature

• Dieter Simon , Ed .: Adelheid Simon-Weiss, introduction by Wingolf Lehnemann, Didot Verlag Essen 1994, printed by Domröse und Kreiß GmbH, ISBN 3-9804014-3X

Web links

• Finest art with pen and color , newspaper article about an exhibition of his works

Individual evidence

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