Günther Zins

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Günther Zins (born April 9, 1951 in Butzbach , Hessen ) is a German sculptor and photographer . Zins became known for his geometric steel sculptures.

education

Günther Zins studied 1970-1975 Free Painting at the College of Art and Design in Cologne. In 1979 he moved to the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin , where he studied until 1980. In 1987 he received the Märkische Scholarship for fine arts in Lüdenscheid. In 2004 and 2007 he received a studio scholarship from the Cité international des Arts in Paris and is a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists .

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Günther Zins's predilection for concrete art is already evident in his early work. Even the early painterly evidence from around 1985 shows geometric structures, and color is also found in him as a material element that challenges sculptural formation. But his characteristic artistic medium ultimately becomes the steel pipe. With it, Zins constructs geometric shapes that can be found both as space-filling and as relief-like objects. Zins repeatedly seeks confrontation with built architecture or finds scenic locations in which he integrates his reduced steel raw sculptures.

With all these sculptural objects, the artist is concerned with the transition of the line into the space. The game with illusion can also be found in the photographic works with which the artist has been experimenting since the turn of the millennium. In the group of works of “thrown plastic” (2002), seemingly weightless sculptures are created for fractions of a second, which are captured photographically as spatial drawings.

With his sculptural works, Günther Zins follows on from the constructive sculpture of the 1920s and develops it further as space-filling installations and room drawings.

Solo exhibitions

Sculpture Quader for Marl (1991) by Günther Zins as part of the outdoor collection of the Glaskasten sculpture museum

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1974 Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg
  • Painting in Lüdenscheid: June 20 - July 20, 1986 1st Lüdenscheid painters' symposium. With Brigitte Driller, Ulrich Dürrenfeld, Gerhard Scharnhorst, Christian Stober, Ulli Weiß and Günther Zins
  • 1988 Figurations, Flottmannhallen, Herne
  • 1989 11 artist rooms, Morsbroich Castle Museum, Leverkusen
  • 1995 Levitation, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl
  • 2002 Busan Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, South Korea
  • 2006 Quiet and consistent, works from the Uwe Obier collection, Siegerland Museum, Siegen
  • 2006 and it moves, from Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely to contemporary mobile art, Museum Bochum
  • 2008 Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Private, works from the Crummenerl collection, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
  • 2010 Die Grosse, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  • 2014 Steel sculpture in Germany yesterday and today, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
  • 2017 Sculptures in Dialogue, Dominican Church Münster, Schnake Art Gallery
  • 2018 cycle, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg
  • 2019 Sight Worlds, 34th overview exhibition of the West German Artists Association, Osthaus Museum Hagen and Städtische Galerie Iserlohn

Art in public space

Sinking Cube (1993) in the forest garden, Kleve
  • Lüdenscheid district building
  • Parktheater Iserlohn
  • Glockengasse, Geldern
  • House in the park, Emmerich
  • Roof of the council chamber, Marl town hall
  • Forest Garden Kleve
  • Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main
  • Lower Saxony State Office for Ecology, Hildesheim
  • Old Town Hall, Hattingen
  • Financial administration NRW, Münster
  • St. Johannes Hospital, Dortmund
  • Sparkasse-Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt / Oder
  • BIK, Frankfurt am Main
  • Sparkasse, Kleve
  • Police headquarters in Kleve
  • Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • City park at the town hall, Dinslaken
  • Sculpture Park at the Stadium, Busan, South Korea
  • Old market, Emmerich
  • Realschule, Kleve-Kellen
  • Museums of the city of Delmenhorst
  • Stadionring roundabout, Bochum
  • Ruhrcongress Bochum
  • Mokpo Sculpture Park, South Korea
  • Volksbank Borken
  • Künstlerzeche Our Fritz, Herne
  • Kurpark, Hamm
  • Rütterswall, Kranenburg

literature

  • Gerhard Reinert: Günther Zins, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten 1995
  • Günther Zins, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid 1998.
  • Günther Zins, ed. Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve 2004.
  • Günther Zins. Weightless. Characters in Space, ed. From Museum Goch and Museum Schloss Moyland, Kerber Verlag 2011.
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, II, M./L. 2007
  • U. Rüth (Ed.): Material und Raum, I, Essen 1991
  • I. Keimer u. a .: Construction Art. Artist. Gest. State buildings in Lower Saxony, Hanover, 1999
  • Sculpture Park, Cologne 2001
  • On and so on and so on. 60 years of West Germans. Künstlerbund, Bochum 2006;
  • * HG Golinski u. a .: And it does move ... From Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely to Zeit "mobile art", Bochum 2006
  • Günther Zins. A film portrait by Ralph Goertz, Institute for Art Documentation, 2011.
  • Günther Zins, Clear Edge, ed. Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm

Web links

Commons : Günther Zins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zins, Günther. In: General Artist Lexicon Online. KG Saur.
personal data
SURNAME Interest, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Butzbach , Hesse