Klaus Zöttl
Klaus Zöttl (born September 7, 1943 in Schwabmünchen ) is a German artist .
Life
After attending the St. Stephan humanistic grammar school in Augsburg and the Rhabanus-Maurus grammar school in Sankt Ottilien , he studied art education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and worked as an art teacher in Munich and Königsbrunn . Since 1983 Klaus Zöttl has been a freelance visual artist with a studio in the Antonspfründe artist house in Augsburg . He made a name for himself with time-critical images, which often dealt with the destruction of nature by humans (film portrait of Bavarian television: In us past is future , 1991).
Earth color projects
In 1996 he began to operate nationwide, while his Augsburg studio continued to be the base camp to investigate the intrinsic colors of local regions by tracking down their earth color occurrences, documenting them, processing them into pigments , testing them for practicality with various binding agent systems and special finds exclusively with those found there Colors portrayed. From 1996 to 2001, Klaus Zöttl examined a 50 km × 50 km region northwest of Montpellier in the Hérault department in southern France . He exhibited a first interim result as early as 1997 under the title “Missing Blue” in the Antonspfründe producer's gallery in Augsburg (purchased by the art collections of the city of Augsburg, today H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast , Augsburg). The final result of the research with 120 documented colors - including the blue that has since been found - test and image series were published in 2001 in the Augsburg gallery “ Die Ecke ” and in spring 2002 in the region of origin of the colors under the title “Couleurs de Terre de l'Hérault ”In the Médiathèque“ Lucie-Aubrac ”in Ganges (Hérault). This was followed by the invitation from UNESCO , on the occasion of the Year of Geosciences, this exhibition at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO under the title "Couleurs de Terre, une recherche artstique de Klaus Zoettl" (September 25, 2002 to October 9, 2002, Salle des Pas Perdus) to show. The so far last exhibition on the earth color project Hérault organized the "Swabian Gallery" of the Swabian district in the Folklore Museum in Oberschönenfeld ( Gessertshausen ) in the summer of 2006 under the title "Terra incognita". The southern France project was interrupted by an order in 1999 to examine the Canary Island of La Palma for volcanic colors and to create a mural in the Finca Suerte, municipality of Tijarafe (30 documented colors, 260 cm × 500 cm) with these colors. The current project is the investigation of the Nördlinger Ries meteorite crater in Bavaria for impact earth colors . The first results are available from the Aumühle Suevite quarry (near Hainsfarth ). By July 2008, over 30 colors were documented.
Exhibitions (selection)
- In 2002 Klaus Zöttl's earth color project was exhibited at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris
- 2003 Works by former students of the Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Sankt Ottilien
- 2006: Swabian Folklore Museum and in the H2 - Center for Contemporary Art
Individual evidence
Web links
- Website Klaus Zöttl
- Nine pictures in the Art Museum Walter ( Memento from May 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zöttl, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwabmünchen |