Pure Zitta

Reiner Zitta (* 1944 in Buchelsdorf near Freiwaldau ) is a German draftsman , sculptor and action artist .

Pure Zitta

Life

Born in the Sudetenland, grew up in Hof, Reiner Zitta experienced an eventful youth. After completing his training as a technical draftsman at Faun GmbH , Zitta successfully applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in 1962 . Until 1968 he studied with Gerhard Wendland . With artist friends, he experienced the spirit of optimism at the Düsseldorf Academy under Joseph Beuys and the LIDL project by Jörg Immendorff . From 1975 to 1977 he ran the Nuremberg restaurant "Gregor Samsa", which he and friends built into a nucleus of the Nuremberg art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 1978 he has lived and worked in the Alte Mühle in Pühlheim near Altdorf.

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Zitta's oeuvre ranges from filigree drawings and monumental sculptures to theater productions. His motifs are fed from a literary and mythological fund. Zitta describes the former student colleague Blalla W. Hallmann as an artistic figure to identify with. With his work it is possible to maintain the relation to reality. For the type of artist he shaped, Zitta invented the term “circle designer”.

Exhibitions since 2000, selection

2001 Pictures and installations, Hersbruck Art Museum
2002 Reitstadel / Art Association, Neumarkt
2003 Thirteen fairies and other things, City Hall / Ehrenhalle, Nuremberg
2004 Hesperidengarten, Regensburg / Wenzenbach
2007 Securities and other obsessions, Dizzys Gallery, Nuremberg, Galerie Löwe, Kallmünz
2009 What the ravens tell us, Kulturverein Winterstein, Nuremberg
2012 Happy Birthday, Crêperie Yechet Mad, Nuremberg
2012 Behind my Häusla ..., Institute for the Blind, Rückersdorf
2013 Sculpture harvest, Kalchreuth
2013 Seidenpudelspitz, Bayreuth
2014 Kunstvilla Nuremberg
2016 German Shepherd Museum Hersbruck

Web links

www.skulpturenlese2013.de
Press text exhibition Kunstvilla Nürnberg, October 2014 , accessed on November 20, 2014.
ARD Mediathek, interview with Stephanie Heinzeller Bayern 2, September 5, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Reiner Zitta. In: seidenpudelspitz. Retrieved November 21, 2014 .
↑ Petra Weigle: Wendland as a teacher, memories . In: Matthias Strobel, Andrea Dippel (Ed.): Gerhard Wendland. The graphic work. Works from the estate and from municipal property . Series of publications by the Kunstvilla in the KunstKulturQuartier, Volume 1. Nuremberg 2010. pp. 54–61.

personal data
SURNAME	Zitta, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German draftsman, sculptor, action artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buchelsdorf near Freiwaldau

[seidenpudelspitz-1] Reiner Zitta. In: seidenpudelspitz. Retrieved November 21, 2014 .

[2] Petra Weigle: Wendland as a teacher, memories . In: Matthias Strobel, Andrea Dippel (Ed.): Gerhard Wendland. The graphic work. Works from the estate and from municipal property . Series of publications by the Kunstvilla in the KunstKulturQuartier, Volume 1. Nuremberg 2010. pp. 54–61.