Michael Zwingmann

Michael Zwingmann (* 1964 in Hanover ) is a German sculptor .

Life

After graduating from high school in Gehrden in 1983, Zwingmann studied fine arts at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences from 1985 to 1993. From 1987 to 1988 he went to India for an academic year and later went on study trips to Korea, Japan, Nepal and the USA. In 1991 he married the artist Kwanho Yuh. The couple have two children. Since 1994 he has been involved in exhibitions in Norway, Korea, Japan, Italy, Hungary, England and Germany. From 1999 to 2008 Zwingmann was a lecturer at the University of Lüneburg. Since 2007 he has been an artistic and scientific assistant at the TU Braunschweig. As part of the summer academy, he has been giving bronze casting courses at the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bad Bevensen since 2006.

Zwingmann was curator of the Lahe art axis (2007) and the exhibition Light and Shadow in the Kaiserdom Königslutter (2010). Michael Zwingmann lives and works in Hanover. He is a member of the Darmstadt Secession (1998), coordinator of the international sculpture network association for Lower Saxony and a member of the German Association of Artists. He works as the artistic director of assembly and dismantling for the Blickachsen Biennale .

Commissioned work

2008 Invasion - Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Marburg
2005 Stone Sound Stele - Aegidienkirchenruine, Hanover (with H. Thomas)
1996 Pas de Deux - Sculpture for the University of Cooperative Education, Karlsruhe
1996 Outdoor facility design - Deutsche Asphalt, Hanover (with F. Brants)
1992 collaboration in the design of the market square - Larvik, Norway
1987–93 worked on the memorial for the Ahlem subcamp, Hanover, and on the “memorial stones for the victims of the Gulf War”, Hanover
1986–87 bronze sculpture - Lahe cemetery, Hanover