Otto Nemitz
Otto Nemitz (born February 22, 1935 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † January 14, 2012 in Cologne ) was a German painter .
Life
Nemitz first completed an apprenticeship in the graphic industry in the 1950s. During this time he approached painting more intensively for the first time. In 1955 he moved to Cologne for the first time. In addition to working as a color etcher, he took drawing courses there with Heiner Stemmel. In 1957 he went to study in Liguria, Italy, where he created a number of landscape paintings. He then moved to Düsseldorf, where he did his Abitur at the evening grammar school. There he met Josefine Terbuyken, whom he married in 1964. The couple moved to Cologne-Ehrenfeld and opened the small art gallery for young talents in a shop there.
In July 1964 the daughter Sarah Nemitz was born, in June 1965 the daughter Rescha Nina-Katinka Nemitz was born.
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From around 1962 Nemitz began to paint concretely, in contrast to Informel . In 1965 Nemitz had his first solo exhibition in the Essen Forum of Visual Artists. In the same year he met Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in Paris to exchange ideas .
In 1968 he received the Rhine-Tiber Prize of the City of Rome and began studying art history, philosophy and theater studies in Cologne.
In 1970 he created visualizations of problem solutions for the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 1977 Nemitz had his first exhibition abroad: He first exhibited in the Hogarth Gallery in Sydney and then, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute, in various cities in Australia. Subsequently, Nemitz stayed for a work stay in West Java, Indonesia. He dedicated one of the sculptures he created there to the indigenous Badui people. Since 1980 the first sequences have been created under the credo of the "difference of the similar". In 1993 a symposium on the complete works took place in the Thomas-More-Akademie in Bensberg. The theme at the time was "The Spiritual in Contemporary Art Using the Example of Otto Nemitz".
From 1995 onwards, the first so-called "time houses" were built, with which Nemitz fully realized his concept of expression: for the first time he removed the boundary between painting and sculpture. In addition, the related work groups "Shadow Spaces" and "Echo Pictures" were created.
In 2011 Nemitz bequeathed two generous donations to the municipal gallery Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach and the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen (Rhine), each of which was presented for the first time as part of an exhibition.
Otto Nemitz died on January 14, 2012 in Cologne. His grave is located in Cologne's south cemetery (hall 5, no. 7).
The Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design took over part of the artist's estate in 2015. The majority of the estate is still in the possession of the Nemitz family. The Rhenish archive for artists' estates was guaranteed the documentary estate in 2016.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| year | place |
|---|---|
| 1965 | Forum visual artists, Essen (catalog) |
| 1965 | Brasci Museum, Rome, Italy |
| 1969 | Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
| 1969 | Art History Institute of the University of Cologne |
| 1970 | Grith Art Gallery, Cologne |
| 1971 | Galerie Walter, Düsseldorf (cat.) |
| 1972 | Studio gallery, Bückeburg |
| 1973 | Gallery Haus im Park, Emmerich |
| 1975 | Galerie Turske, Cologne (cat.) |
| 1977 | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1977 | City-Gallery, Canberra, Australia (cat.) |
| 1977 | Australian Art Center, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1978 | Goethe Institute, Adelaide, Australia |
| 1978 | Goethe-Institut, Wagga-Wagga, Australia |
| 1989 | Cologne Art Association |
| 1989 | Gallery "Pro Solo", Gummersbach |
| 1989 | Gallery Symbol, Cologne |
| 1991 | Art station Kleinsassen, Kleinsassen |
| 1991 | Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne (cat.) |
| 1992 | Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach (cat.) |
| 1994 | The White Gallery, Cologne |
| 1994 | Artothek, Cologne |
| 1995 | Society for Art and Design , Bonn |
| 1996 | The White Gallery, Cologne |
| 1997 | Municipal Museum "Alte Post", Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| 2000 | Art station Kleinsassen, Kleinsassen |
| 2002 | Art Association Radolfzell (Lake Constance) |
| 2002 | Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (Rhine) (cat.) |
| 2003 | City Museum Siegburg (cat.) |
| 2004 | Society for Art and Design, Bonn |
| 2005 | Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld |
| 2011 | Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach (cat.) |
| 2011 | Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (Rhine) (cat.) |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| year | place |
|---|---|
| 1968 | Palazzo del Espositioni, Rome, Italy |
| 1971 | PRO ARTE, Duisburg |
| 1973 | Art kaleidoscope, Cologne |
| 1980 | Art Aulanka, Finland |
| 1981 | Municipal Museum, Siegen |
| 1982 | German Blade Museum, Solingen |
| 1982 | International graphics, Bilbao, Spain |
| 1983 | Kunsthaus Altona, Hamburg-Altona |
| 1984 | Art Association Frechen |
| 1985 | Cologne art |
| 1985 | Villa Merkel, Esslingen |
| 1986 | Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn |
| 1986 | Dresdner Bank, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt (Main), Munich |
| 1987 | Triennial Rhine Art |
| 1988 | Painter from the FRG, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1989 | Galerie Müller-Salziger, Cologne |
| 1990 | State Museum Schloss Wolbeck, Münster (Westphalia) |
| 1991 | Cologne art |
| 1993 | East German Gallery , Regensburg |
| 1994 | Art places, festival region Bergisches Land |
| 1995 | Accrochage, Frechen Art Association |
| 1995 | Accrochage, Weisse Galerie, Cologne |
| 1997 | Art fair, Frankfurt (Main) |
| 1998 | Cologne art |
| 1998 | Cologne Gallery of Wishes, City Museum |
| 1999 | "Box art", Alte Post art museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| 2001 | 2nd International Biennale "New Watercolor", Kleinsassen Art Station |
| 2002 | Accrochage for the 20th, group specifically Bonn |
| 2003 | group concrete bonn, house on the Redoute , Bonn Bad-Godesberg |
| 2003 | Salon d'Automne - Centenaire, Paris, France |
| 2004 | group concrete bonn, Kunsthaus Rehau |
| 2004 | group concrete bonn, Orangerie Sens, France |
| 2005 | Cologne art, Kleinsassen art station |
| 2005 | ARGUMENTA, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland |
| 2007 | group concrete bonn, artist forum Bonn |
| 2008 | Artist of the Poly-Galerie, Karlsruhe in Cologne-Niehl |
| 2008 | "Objectless", Society for Art and Design, Bonn |
| 2008 | "intuitive, calculated, changeable", group specifically bonn, art station Kleinsassen |
| 2009 | Taidemuseo, Immatra, Finland |
| 2015 | "Black on White", Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt |
Work in private and public ownership
Artothek, Cologne; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Museo Braschi, Rome, Italy; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Collection of Prof. Siegfried Gohr, Cologne; City of Dormagen; City Cologne; Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach; Municipal Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr; University of Cologne; Wajang Museum, Djakarta, Indonesia; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (Rhine); Foundation for Concrete Art and Design, Ingolstadt
literature
- Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen (Rhein) (Ed.): Otto Nemitz - Concrete Variations . Wienand Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86832-058-9 .
- Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (Ed.): Otto Nemitz picture spaces . Self-published, 2011, ISBN 978-3-939227-02-1 .
- Municipal museum in the old post office, Mülheim (Ruhr) (Ed.): Otto Nemitz From the sequence to the time house . Self-published, 1997.
Web links
- Website about the life and work of Otto Nemitz
- Literature by and about Otto Nemitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dusseldorf workshop talks of the NRW Artists 'Guild at the writers' table in the House of the German East (today the Gerhart-Hauptmann-House Foundation)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Otto Nemitz - life and work. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Cologne painter Otto Nemitz died at the age of 76 . In: My southern city. The portal for the southern part of Cologne. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
- ↑ Otto Nemitz. In: skkd-ingolstadt.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Otto Nemitz - Life and Work. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Otto Nemitz - Life and Work. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nemitz, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2012 |
| Place of death | Cologne |