Seiji Kimoto

Seiji Kimoto (* 1937 in Osaka , Japan ) is a Japanese-German artist who works primarily as a sculptor and calligrapher .

Life

Kimoto grew up in Osaka, Japan, where she studied interior design and Zen painting . From 1961 to 1967 he worked as an interior designer and then attended the Goethe Institute in Staufen im Breisgau . In 1968 he began studying at the Saarbrücken Art College with Professor Boris Kleint, and during this time he helped found Group 7 . He has been working as a freelance artist since 1971 and was a founding member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists in Saarland. He has lived in Wiebelskirchen for several years . In 1985 he was a founding member of the Saarland Künstlerhaus . In 1995 he won first prize in a competition to create the transport point in Weiskirchen . In 1999 he was nominated for the QuattroPole Art Prize Robert Schuman .

Public room

Memorial at the Sinnerthal sewage treatment plant

Some outdoor installations dealt with the Second World War . In 1997, a memorial for forced laborers in Neunkirchen was opened in the Hüttenpark in Neunkirchen . A second installation is at the Sinnerthal sewage treatment plant . In 2004 the relief "Human Material " was inaugurated at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , followed in 2006 by a large sculpture at the Mauthausen Memorial .

Exhibitions

Kimoto's first solo exhibitions took place in 1972 at Galerie Elitzer Saarbrücken and Galerie Schneider-Sato in Karlsruhe . In 1988 an exhibition was dedicated to Kimoto on the occasion of the opening of the Neunkircher Bürgerhaus. It was the beginning of a series of exhibitions called “anstoß”, which was initiated by Mayor Peter Neuber .

1973: Galerie Studio 68, Speyer
1974: Kunstkontor Blank, Marburg
1975: Art Association Gütersloh
1976: Rheinisch-Westfälische Auslandsgesellschaft, Dortmund / Asia-Haus, Saarbrücken / Galerie Faber, Fulda
1977: Kunsthaus Blank, Marburg
1980: Gallery Im Zwinger, St. Wendel / Kunsthaus Blank, Marburg / Asia-Haus, Frankfurt
1981: Galerie Vanille, Emmerich
1981/82: Evangelical Academy, Bad Boll
1982: Gallery Spectrum, Frankfurt
1983: Neunkirchen town hall
1984: Rosengalerie, Bielefeld / Art Gallery, Luxembourg
1985: Galerie am Graben, Fulda / Hohaus-Museum, Lauterbach / Schlossgalerie, Bonn / Würzburg art workshop
1987: District Office Wetzlar / Saarländisches Künstlerhaus , Saarbrücken
1988: Gallery in the Bürgerhaus, Neunkirchen
1991: Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken
1994: Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg / Galerie 48, Saarbrücken / Bosener Mühle, Bosen
1995: Museum St. Wendel / Wohnkunst-Galerie, Karlsruhe / Gallery in the courtyard, St. Wendel / VSE Saarbrücken
1996: Gallery in the courtyard, St. Wendel
1997: Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg / Galerie 48, Saarbrücken
1998: Gallery in the Old Castle, Dillingen
1999: Gallery in the old brewery, St. Ingbert
2000: Galerie Rathaus Völklingen
2002: City Hall Gallery Saarwellingen
2003: Simoncini Gallery, Luxembourg / Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Berlin
2004: Cloister of the Dominican Church of St. Blasius, Regensburg
2005: Robert Schuman House, Trier Catholic Academy
2006: Gallery TU Kaiserslautern / Mauthausen concentration camp
2007: Retrospective, Old Castle Dillingen / Rood MediArt, Luxembourg
2008: Three Views, Commercial-Technical Training Center Saarbrücken
2009: Calligraphy exhibition VHS Kaiserslautern / Quer / SCHNITT, Saar-Pfalz-Park, Bexbach
2015: Center européen du résistant déporté, Struthof (group exhibition)
2018: Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen

Works

Bonsai people . Lebach: Queisser Verlagsgesellschaft 1983. ISBN 3-921815-48-7
Half truth, whole lie: sentences & opposites . With Michael Raus. Luxembourg: mediArt 2007. ISBN 978-2-9599749-0-8 . (Calligraphy)

Web links

Official website
Literature on Seiji Kimoto in the Saarland Bibliography
Anton Markmiller, Paul Bertemes , Alexander Bennemann: Kimoto, Seiji. In: Saar artists lexicon. Sandra Kraemer, Claudia Maas, March 11, 2012, accessed May 13, 2011 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Günther Scharwath: Art and Artists in Neunkirchen . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 641 .
↑ Vita. Official website, accessed May 12, 2012 .
^ Rainer Knauf: Fallen memorials, war victims' memorials, memorials for the victims of National Socialism . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 324 f .
^ Nicole Nix-Hauck: Spaces for Art . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 641 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kimoto, Seiji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese-German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osaka , Japan

[Sch-1] Günther Scharwath: Art and Artists in Neunkirchen . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 641 .

[2] Vita. Official website, accessed May 12, 2012 .

[3] Rainer Knauf: Fallen memorials, war victims' memorials, memorials for the victims of National Socialism . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 324 f .

[4] Nicole Nix-Hauck: Spaces for Art . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 641 .