Jan Grimm

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Jan Grimm (born April 17, 1943 in Prague ; † September 3, 2012 in Litoměřice ) was a Czech painter and spiritus rector of his adopted home Litoměřice.

Career

Grimm studied from 1964 to 1970 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under František Jiroudek (1914–1991). His works, predominantly in oil or mixed media , are strongly influenced by his teacher, who was close to neo-expressionism . They mostly show abstract, glamorous female figures that were captured in a movement. Wall mosaics adorn the pedestrian passages of Prague's Náměstí Republiky and Skalka metro stations and the entrance hall in the congress center.

From 1973 he began to exhibit publicly. His paintings were exhibited in galleries. With the 1979 exhibition in Moscow, his pictures were also shown internationally and even before the fall of the Berlin Wall in the West, for the first time in 1984 in Essen .

The center of Grimm's life was Litoměřice, where he also founded a center for cultural events. The artist couple Jan and Ivanova Grimm restored the historic Salva Guarda house on the market square, one of the oldest hotels in Central Europe. They converted the building, which had been used as a manufactory for decades, back into a hotel and, in collaboration with the Salva Guarda, a cultural center of the city, initiated exhibitions, concerts and performances. Jazz concerts in particular were popular, with Svatopluk Košvanec , Josef Abrhám and the clarinetist Jiří Kudrman performing.

The preface to Grimm's exhibition catalog 1989 Obrazy a kresby was written by Václav Dušek .

In 1998 Grimm was elected chairman of the Litomerice Cultural Committee. For several years he organized the art exhibitions, one of which was staged in a nearby, disused railway tunnel, installed in railroad cars. In this function, Grimm also campaigned for the erection of the monument to the national poet Karel Hynek Mácha , who at the end of his life lived in Litoměřice. The monument was unveiled in Jiráskovy Park to mark the 200th anniversary in 2010. It was cast in the same shape as his monument in Prague.

After the death of her husband, Ivanova Grimmová will give up the hotel at the turn of the year 2016 and devote himself entirely to art.

Web links

Commons : Jan Grimm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art-Tour ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Czech.)
  2. ↑ Hotel website with a description of the house
  3. ↑ Milenci v Litoměřicích se mohou scházet u Máchy , Ceská televize 21 Nov. 2010 (tech.)

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b exhibition catalog Jan Grimm: Obrazy a kresby , 1998
  2. ↑ a b Information from the interview with hotel owner Ivanova Grimmova on September 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2012
Place of death Litoměřice