Günter Tollmann

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Art Museum Gelsenkirchen , Gelsenkirchen-Buer
Kinetic art by Günter Tollmann: "Mobile sculpture without a title" (1973) at the new location in front of the Gelsenkirchen Justice Center (2016)

Günter Tollmann (* 1926 in Gelsenkirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia ; † August 22, 1990 in Hanover , Lower Saxony ) was a German painter , sculptor and object artist .

life and work

During the Second World War , the 17-year-old Tollmann was a soldier in France and was there as a prisoner of war until he was released in 1948. While in captivity, he developed a connection with France and spent extended periods of time in the country each year until his death. His painting was influenced by the style of German Expressionism and the French Nouvelle École de Paris .

Tollmann completed an apprenticeship as a sign painter, which he completed with good success. After his return from France in 1948 he began a drawing course at the adult education center in Gelsenkirchen. From 1956 to 1959 he studied painting with Ferdinand Macketanz at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . He then worked as a painter and created collages . His first exhibition took place in the art gallery of Café Funke in Gelsenkirchen and it was immediately considered a new discovery . With the construction of the new theater in Gelsenkirchen he was involved with the artists Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely , with whom he had a long friendship. This gave him a connection to new art forms. During the 1960s, he and his wife, whom he married in 1950, tried to spread modern and contemporary art and his exhibition rooms became a meeting place for contemporary art. In 1967 he created the first object of kinetic art and from 1968 onwards the first commissions were made for kinetic sculptures in public spaces . With these objects, which were based on cylindrical shapes, he achieved his international breakthrough. In 1969 Tollmann was one of the co-founders of artist group B1 along with other artists such as Friedrich Gräsel , Rolf Glasmeier , Ferdinand Spindel and Kuno Gonschior . This year Tollmann moved his studio directly to the Gelsenkirchen Art Museum in order to make his work transparent for visitors and to be able to carry out smaller commissioned work immediately.

Günter Tollman was a member of the West German Artists Association and lecturer at the Bremen University of the Arts in Bremen. As a full member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in the major annual DKB exhibitions a total of seventeen times between 1969 and 1990.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Installation in Gelsenkirchen
    • Wave sculpture (1969), Hagemann School in Gelsenkirchen
    • Kinetic object (1969), Gelsenkirchen Art Museum in Gelsenkirchen-Buer
    • Mobile Plastik (1973), until January 2016 before the Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, today at the Justice Center in Neustadt
    • Block 8 (1972), set up in the park of Schloss Horst in Gelsenkirchen since 2002 (long-term loan), previously at the German Association of Artists in Stuttgart
    • Günter Tollmann - Retrospective (1926-1990) (2011), Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
  • Installation at other locations
    • Movable fountain sculpture , city center Herne
    • Movement sculpture (1970), Max Planck Institute in Göttingen
    • Movable Plastic PA II (1971), sculpture park at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg
    • Movable sculpture (1976), Municipal Music School, Ostenallee / Nordring in Hamm
    • Mobile PAI (1974/1996), Place du Général Leclerc in Mont-de-Marsan , France
    • Movable sculpture (erected in 1990), police building in Coesfeld
    • Movable angle element (set up in 1991) in Hanover
    • Wind sculpture in Bergkamen
    • Sculpture in front of the Ministry of Culture in Paris

Photo gallery

  • Movable sculpture in Coesfeld

  • Block 8 at Horst Castle

  • Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg

  • Mobile plastic (1973) at the old location in Gelsenkirchen-Buer (until 2015)

  • Mobile plastic at the old location (2015)

  • Mobile plastic at the new location (2016)

  • Mobile plastic at the new location (2016)

literature

  • Günter Tollmann. Paintings / sculptures 1948 - 1990 . Halfmannshof artists' settlement in collaboration with the Gelsenkirchen City Museum, September 14, 1990 - October 6, 1991. Gelsenkirchen, 1991
  • Günter Tollmann . Edited by Rainer Norten. With texts by Alexander Klar u. a. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-7774-5031-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEIT Online: Notes. February 14, 1969 (accessed April 26, 2016)
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 26, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Tollmann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1990
Place of death Hanover