Max Wimmer
Max Wimmer (born January 28, 1935 in Tegernsee ; † August 26, 2015 in Munich ) was a German painter who lived and worked in Munich and Cagnes-sur-Mer .
life and work
Wimmer studied painting from 1963 to 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he received his diploma in 1969. He was a master student of Josef Oberberger . In 1980 he passed the state examination as an art teacher at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
His pictures are mostly abstract representations. Stylistically, it can be assigned to the Informel in the style of Jackson Pollock or the Austrian Hans Staudacher. His trademark, however, is reverse glass painting, as a mixed technique and / or collage, also using gold paint or gold paper.
Exhibitions (selection)
- Center Artistique De Rencontres Internationales, Nice
- FIAC Grand Palais, Paris
- Lacloche Gallery, Paris and Cannes
- Picasso Museum , Antibes
- Art. International art fair, Basel
- Le Tillot Gallery, Dijon
- Gollong Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence
- Middle Rhine State Museum , Mainz
- Galerie Thomas , Munich
- Do Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
- National Gallery of Tunis
- Mail Art. Tokyo
- Schaezler Palace Augsburg
Represented in public collections
- Musée Chateau, Cagnes-sur-Mer
- Musée Picasso Antibes
- Musée National d'Art Moderne / Center George Pompidou, Paris
- Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz
- Landeszentralbank Mainz
- Dresdner Bank
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Wimmer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
Middle Rhine State Museum Mainz, Max Wimmer, 1981
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wimmer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tegernsee , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 2015 |
| Place of death | Munich , Bavaria , Germany |