Mac carpenter

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Mac Zimmermann (born August 22, 1912 in Stettin ; † June 11, 1995 in Wasserburg am Inn ; actually Heinz Hans Oskar Zimmermann ) was a German painter and graphic artist , press draftsman and set designer . He was one of the most important German representatives of Surrealism .

childhood

Zimmermann grew up in his hometown of Szczecin, where he attended secondary school until 1928. He then did an apprenticeship at an insurance company in Szczecin. He also learned to draw and in 1930 began studying at the Stettiner Werkschule for design work with Gregor Rosenbauer , which he broke off after two semesters.

Hamburg and Berlin

From 1934 to 1938 he lived in Hamburg . In Hamburg he worked as a set designer , illustrator , press illustrator and teacher at a drawing school. Mac Zimmermann was ostracized and banned from painting. In 1938 Zimmermann went to Berlin . He had his first exhibition in Berlin in 1940, but was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1943 . From 1940 to 1948 he was married to the artisan Minka Zimmermann , who was born in 1914 . In 1945 Mac Zimmermann was imprisoned as a political prisoner.

New beginning in Berlin

He had his first major exhibition after the Second World War in 1946 in the Gerd Rosen Gallery in Berlin. In 1946 he took on a teaching position at the academy in Dessau . Mac Zimmermann lived in Munich from 1948. In 1950 Zimmermann was one of the founding members of the German Association of Artists, which was dissolved in 1936, along with Karl Hofer , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Ewald Mataré , Karl Hartung and Willi Baumeister . He participated in the first exhibition in Berlin with two small-format oil paintings. As a full member, he took part in a total of 30 annual DKB exhibitions between 1951 and 1979.

Professor in Berlin and Munich

In 1958 he took over a professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . Well-known students of Mac Zimmermann were the representatives of Fantastic Realism and Critical Realism such as u. a. Peter Sorge , Reiner Schwarz and Rainer Mordmüller .

In 1964 he went to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts as a professor . His students included u. a. Otfried Culmann , Rüdiger Frank (from 1984: Tilopâ Monk ), Christian Mischke , Franziska Fuchs , Pomona Zipser , and Rolf Thiele .

The last few years in Munich

From 1979 to 1986 he was President of the New Group in Munich. His estate was handed over by his widow in 2010 to the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald , which organized an exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 2012.

Awards and honors

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Minka Zimmermann at tuch-und-technik.de (PDF) )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tuch-und-technik.de
  2. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950. First exhibition in Berlin 1951, in the rooms of the Bild University. Arts, Hardenbergstr. 33 , total production: Brüder Hartmann, Berlin 1951. (Mac Zimmermann, cat.no.229: Metamorphose II (1951), 35 × 51 cm; 230: Transformed landscape (1951), 36 × 47 cm)
  3. ↑ s. Zimmermann, Mac In: Kunstreport 1903/1995. The German Association of Artists at a Glance , DKB Special Edition Winter 1994/95, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929283-08-5 , p. 136.
  4. ^ Ostseezeitung, regional edition Greifswald, January 13, 2012
  5. ^ Art: art edition March-April ISSN  1866-542X
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Mac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Heinz Hans Oskar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1995
Place of death Wasserburg am Inn