Olga Zimmelova

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Olga Zimmelova (born February 1, 1945 in Majdalena , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech-Swiss painter , draftsman and sculptor .

Life

Olga Zimmelova was born in the last days of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. After attending grammar school in Tábor , she studied Russian and drawing at the Pedagogical University in Budweis . After the end of the Prague Spring in 1968, she emigrated to Switzerland. There she attended the School of Design in Lucerne and also took a guest semester at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan . In 1974 she married the sculptor Andreas Gehr , they have two daughters and are divorced.

In 1980 she received a federal art scholarship and in 1982 a two-year scholarship for a stay at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome . She stayed in Italy, worked at Ventotene and from 1987 in Bosa in Sardinia . In 1997 she returned to Switzerland and until 2006 ran a studio in the “Werkverein Bildzwang” in Lucerne . Zimmelova lives in Basel .

Zimmelova works as a painter, draftsman and sculptor, she produces installation art , film and video art .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Obejmutí pohledem. Abbracciabile con lo sguardo. Dům umĕní České Budějovice
  • 2000: Téchne-Psyché . National Technical Museum in Prague
  • 2001: Kalich. Husitské muzeum, Tábor (Czech Republic)
  • 2001: growing picture . Kornschütte (Town Hall) Lucerne
  • 2006: Pictures for the bee. Community Gallery Kriens
  • 2014: into the open! Landscapes from Robert Zünd and Ferdinand Hodler to Max von Moos. Lucerne Art Museum
  • 2018: Free viewing / Volný pohled. Gallery Klatovy, Klenová (Czech Republic)
  • 2019: Olga Zimmelova - in cuore sento il pazzo volo di un'ape regina. Lucerne Art Gallery

Publications (selection)

  • with Damaris Gehr: play of reflections . Ed. Howeg, Zurich 2012.
  • Sulamith Gehr: Olga Zimmelova - On the way with the picture . Galerie Kriens, October 20 to November 12, 2006. Catalog texts: Jean-Christophe Ammann , Marlène Schnieper. Ars pro toto, Lucerne 2006.
  • Pandataria . Vexer, St. Gallen 1987.
  • Roma . Swiss Institute in Rome, Rome 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simonetta Noseda: Zimmelova, Olga. In: Sikart (status: 2008), accessed on August 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Zimmelova, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmelová, Olga; Gehr, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Majdalena