Dietmar Josef Zapf

Dietmar Josef Zapf (also Josef D. Zapf or D. Josef Zapf ; born September 13, 1946 in Reichental ) is a German painter and etcher .

Life

Dietmar Josef Zapf grew up in the Black Forest . Before studying from 1967 to 1973 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , Freiburg branch , he worked as an assembly fitter after completing an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. He was a master student of Peter Dreher and has devoted himself to fictional landscape painting since 1974 , which he also practices as open-air painting .

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Apart from the Black Forest , Dietmar Josef Zapf worked and lived in New York , Los Angeles , Paris , Rome and Cologne . Thematically, programmatically and biographically, his work is periodically structured through his alternating stays in different landscapes:

In 1978 Dietmar Josef Zapf received a grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation as a travel grant to the USA, where he lived in New York and Los Angeles. This is where the series " Psycho " was created based on the film by Alfred Hitchcock . He visited the Navajo and the Hopi in Utah . In 1979 he moved to the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris .

In 1980 he represented Peter Dreher at the Karlsruhe Art Academy .

In 1981 he was awarded the promotion prize of the Upper Rhine commercial industry.

1983–1984 he was a scholarship holder of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . During this time Dietmar Josef Zapf traveled to Sicily and climbed Mount Etna . He presented his experiences in this volcanic landscape with small-format ink brush painting and on large-format linocuts , which he printed in four colors on light fabric with the help of an old lawn roller .

In 1991, Zapf received the 1st Art and Culture Prize of the Markgräflerland and the museum atelier of the city of Müllheim . Here he painted large-format landscapes of Haute Provence , Italian landscapes and the Upper Rhine, which the Markgräfler Museum Müllheim exhibited in the retrospective Dietmar Josef Zapf, Expression and Echo , Painting 1983–2003 in 2003/04. After his studio in Müllheim was closed, the Morat Institute for Art and Art History took over the painting and printing work of Dietmar Josef Zapf in the Freiburg im Breisgau institute depot.

Michael Krüger wrote about the Etna series (ink brush painting and linocut prints on fabric) : "The Etna pictures, so to speak, lift the ceiling of the convention that has covered the world - and has made it invisible." (D. Josef Zapf - Etna, Kunstverein Freiburg, catalog 1984, p. 8)

In the catalog of the exhibition Josef D. Zapf Landscape + Berg, 1991, p. 9, Hans H. Hofstätter remarked : “While Cézanne (but) strived for the cubic order, with clear points of rest and concentration, Zapf senses with constant change of dissolution and Compression according to nature's tendency to chaos, which is opposed to the will to create. "

In the catalog Josef D. Zapf - Pictures, Freiburg 1994, p. 7, Otfried Käppeler stated: “If Josef D. Zapf says that the current program is trees, mountains and the sea, this is to be understood as a motive restriction: That The program is the landscape, the theme is painting. "

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SURNAME	Zapf, Dietmar Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zapf, Josef D .; Zapf, D. Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reichental