Paul Zimmerling

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Paul Zimmerling (born April 5, 1927 ; † August 17, 2006 ) was a German ceramist and glaze specialist from Höhr-Grenzhausen .

Life

From 1949 to 1951 Paul Zimmerling attended the technical department of the State Higher Technical School for Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen and worked in the following years (1951–61) at Dümler & Breiden, also in Höhr-Grenzhausen, where his most original work was created.

Especially in the 1950s he gave German ceramics innovative impulses with his picture plates, which were shown at numerous exhibitions. Particularly noteworthy are his pioneering work in the field of material mixing and color treatment.

plant

Critic's opinions on the picture plates that Paul Zimmerling showed in 1956 in the exhibition “Painting, Plastic, Ceramic” in Frankfurt a. M. showed:

“Also interesting from the processing of the material are the wire inlaid panels by Paul Zimmerling, who in some compositions advances to the point of complete detachment from the representational. Zimmerling is the most experimental artist in this group. Wandering imagination and a strong rhythmic feeling seem to almost overcome the heaviness of the material. "

“On the panels by Paul Zimmerling, black and white contours collide hard where it is desired. The glazes flow softly inside unconventionally proportioned surfaces, interlocking, dissolving again. In addition, there is an already formed material, the wire, which is bent and processed according to the surface contour. (...) The colors are of an intensity that is unusual in ceramic circles. "

literature

  • Brigitte Klesse: Glass and Ceramics from Historicism to the Present , Cologne 1991, p. 307.
  • Ekkart blade: German ceramics of the 20th century , II, Düsseldorf 1978, p. 261 f.
  • Horst Makus: 1950s ceramics. The everyday life of modernity, Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt 1998 ( ISBN 3925369694 ), pp. 130, 137.
  • Horst Makus: Ceramic from the 50s. Shapes, colors and decors. A manual , Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt 2006 ( ISBN 3897902206 ), pp. 379, 528.

swell

  1. ↑ Makus 2006, p. 528
  2. ↑ Euro-Ceramic (Düsseldorf / Neuwied) No. 10/56 and 1/57
personal data
SURNAME Zimmerling, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1927
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 2006