Jörg F. Zimmermann

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Jörg F. Zimmermann (* 1940 in Uhingen ( Göppingen district )) is a German glass artist . His work is particularly characterized by "honeycomb objects".

Life

Jörg F. Zimmermann completed an apprenticeship in a craft business in Schwäbisch Gmünd and then studied at the Technical College for Design in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Zimmermann has been working as a freelance industrial designer since 1968. He has been teaching glass design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart since 1976 . In 1983/84, together with Wolfgang Kermer and Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen, he was significantly involved in setting up a studio glass oven, which made it possible for students of all disciplines to work freely with hot glass at the Stuttgart Academy as the only art school in Germany.

Honeycomb object by Zimmermann

plant

Zimmermann's development are artistically designed glass objects based on the organic forms of nature. One finds structures of z. B. corals, fruits, leaves or ice again. Zimmermann creates them by "growing" the glass. These analogies come into their own particularly well in the "honeycomb objects" he developed .

literature

  • Jörg F. Zimmermann. Glass artist - Verre contemporain. (Text in German, English and French), Arnold, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3925369285
  • Bright spots. Poems by Rainer Schubert on glass objects by Jörg F. Zimmermann. Schröder, Diepholz 2002, ISBN 3-89728-051-5
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer : inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011 ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 pp. 181–182
  • Wolfgang Kermer: “From fire and sand ...”: on the work of Jörg F. Zimmermann . Lecture given on the occasion of the vernissage of the exhibition “Jörg. F. Zimmermann: From fire and sand ... “in the Kreissparkasse Kusel on March 19, 2014. [Kusel]: Self-published, 2014

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