Edmund Georg Pielmann

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Edmund Georg Pielmann (born March 11, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1985 in Heiden AR , Switzerland ) was a German painter .

biography

Pielmann was born the son of the lawyer and senior government councilor Pielmann and his wife Alice Georke. He had his first encounter with art through his grandmother Emmi Georke, an art dealer in Hanover. In 1939, at the age of sixteen, he took private art lessons from Paul Egon Schiffers , who had directed the sculpture class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. After serving in the military in Erfurt and Italy, Pielmann began training at the Academy of Fine Arts with Toni Stadler in Munich in 1945 . In 1957 he moved to Switzerland and founded a studio in Lugano , later in Luino on Lake Maggiore . In 1958 he married the surrealist painter Arlette Tigges , who died in a car accident in 1978. The daughter Claudia Pielmann (* 1959) comes from the marriage .

Pielmann's grave is in Luino.

Occasionally, works by the artist can be found in auction shops.

Awards

  • 1964: First prize “Medaglia d'Oro”, Carrara
  • 1967: Premio "Monopoli" Pisa
  • 1978: First prize “Medaglia d'Oro”, Salsomaggiore

literature

  • Departure to modern art. Haus der Kunst, exhibition catalog, Munich 1958.
  • Pielmann, Edmund Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 347 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artnet.de website
personal data
SURNAME Pielmann, Edmund Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1985
Place of death Heiden AR