Ed summer
Ed Sommer , actually Edmund Sommer (born November 26, 1932 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † August 17, 2015 there ) was an artist born in Germany with Swiss citizenship. Ed Sommer became known as an avant-garde film director , experimental filmmaker , painter , sculptor and photographer .
life and work
Edmund Sommer was a self-taught artist, filmmaker and photographer . He began creating abstract picture reliefs in 1959 . Later he created thermoplastic sculptures from acrylic glass and collages . At the beginning of the 1970s he made erotic experimental films in 16 mm with Irm Sommer . The best-known of these films by Irm & Ed Sommer are: Lovely Love from 1971 and Nitsch (Abreaktionsspiel) from 1970.
From 1966 to 1969 he was Germany correspondent for Art International magazine . In the 1960s, the name Edmund was shortened to Ed and he was only called Ed Sommer from then on.
Ed Sommer was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Filmschau: Erotic Cinema department with several films .
Between 1977 and 1985 he created gestural symbolic images.
In 1990 he organized the international colloquium “ Création / Découverte ” at the Paris Goethe-Institut and in 1996 another colloquium “ Planetary Culture / Planetary Consciousness ” at the Goethe-Institut in Marseille .
In 1980 he created his first projection photographs, which he has presented in sequences since 1991. Between 1984 and 1987, Ed Sommer developed an art of dialogue, called Portraits / Résponses , in which he lets the portrayed respond to their portraits either pictorially or in writing. Those portrayed include Jean Baudrillard , Hubert Reeves and Victor Vasarely .
From 1989 to 1991 Ed Sommer and his wife, the artist Yong Sa, were committed to human rights in the projects Tian Anmen and Art for a Free Tibet .
Ed Sommer wrote philosophical essays and writings on " Planetary Consciousness " and poems in which he combined poetry and philosophy to create his " FliessFelderWelten ".
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Ed Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.edsommer.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Summer, Ed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Summer, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss film artist, painter, sculptor, photographer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 2015 |
| Place of death | Schwäbisch Gmünd |