Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann

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Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann or Dietrich Griemsmann , also known as Paddy (born June 27, 1941 in Hanover or Großburgwedel ; † July 19, 2013 in Burgwedel ) was a German draftsman , painter , collagist and sculptor , designer and poet as well as graphic artist who was artistically had formed as an autodidact and described himself as a "total artist".

Life

As a toddler, Griemsmann experienced the last years of World War II before he graduated from high school in 1961 at the age of around 20. He then studied pedagogy at the Hanover University of Education until the spring of 1968 .

During his studies, Griemsmann trained himself in painting from 1962 to 1965, but then switched to graphics. And already in his early student years, Griemsmann had his first major solo exhibitions, for example in 1965 in Großburgwedel, in 1967 in Hanover at WP Eberhard Eggers , in 1968 under the title "Fantastic Art in Germany" at the Kunstverein Hannover and - also in 1968 - under the heading "Critical Graphics “In the Wilhelm Busch Museum at that time .

After graduating from the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Griemsmann continued his artistic training at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1968 . As a member of the Association of Visual Artists , Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann sent numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

Griemsmann's life's work, which was administered and cared for by his wife Karin, is difficult to compare, and best of all, in comparison with works from the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism : "Griemsmann kept reinventing himself and works in very different cycles." he uses materials as diverse as crayons, ink, acyl, iron, clay, plaster of paris, marble and silk. He also designed furniture and composed verses for his works. His most important topic for him was “his women's worlds”, which he depicted in countless reminiscences on paper or canvas or as sculptures in ever new forms of expression.

Since 1989 Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann worked as a freelance artist.

Some of Griemsmann's works are now part of the collection of the Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Johann-Dietrich, "Paddy" Griemann was buried in an urn in the immediate family in 2013 .

The Kunstverein Burgwedel-Isernhagen posthumously presented a large two-part exhibition in Burgwedel from November 7 to December 18, 2014 for the first time with works by the Burgwedel “total artist” at two locations, including the local town hall, where Mayor Axel Düker gave the opening speech at the vernissage held.

The house, workshop and sculpture garden of the late artist formed the property at Auf dem Amtshof 32 in Burgwedel, which his wife temporarily operates as a museum open to visitors and those interested in art. Getting involved in the works on display takes time, as Karin Griemsmann once put it: "Without persistent visitors, my husband would not have been involved in 'Art in Motion' for so long."

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See also

  • Kurt Griemsmann , local history researcher, author as well as founder and director of the adult education center in Großburgwedel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Petra Bredemeier: Exhibition “Fantastic Worlds” by Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann / Painting - Drawing - Collage on the website burgwedel-aktuell.de on October 28, 2014, last accessed on August 31, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Jüdes (arrangement): Young art in Hanover. An exhibition of the Oldenburger Kunstverein August 31 - September 24, 1969 , catalog for the exhibition, organizer and publisher: Oldenburger Kunstverein, [Oldenburg]: Oldenburger Kunstverein, 1969, p. 20; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the obituary notice on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Martin Lauber: Großburgwedel / Griemsmann's art can be admired / One year after the death of Johann-Dietrich Griemsmann, the house, workshop and sculpture garden of the great Großburgwedel artist are open to everyone on weekends. The Kunstverein will have a retrospective in the town hall and in the Volksbank in the autumn . on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 9, 2014, updated on July 11, 2014, last accessed on August 31, 2017
  5. ^ Werner Krämer: Table of contents of the Heimatbund-Zeitschrift "Heimatland" / done: Issue March 1950 to Issue 2.2003 , Microsoft Word document on the heimatbund-niedersachsen.de page [ undated ], last accessed on August 31, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Griemsmann, Johann-Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griemsmann, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, collagist, sculptor, designer, poet and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover or Großburgwedel
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2013
Place of death Hanover