Thomas Zach

Thomas Zach (born December 4, 1922 in Muttischen ( Mutišov in the Czech Republic); † March 23, 2016 Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He painted consistently and consciously in front of nature. Landscapes and still lifes are his main subjects, influenced by impressionism and expressionism. The area around Frankfurt his inexhaustible source of inspiration. Concrete and bronze his preferred materials as sculptors.

Life

Elementary school in Sitzgras, community school in Zlabings, conscription to the military, English captivity. After being wounded, he was released as a harvest helper in the Westerwald. Married in the Westerwald and studied in Frankfurt. Two children. Five grandchildren. Frankfurt / M becomes the center of his life.

Honors

• 1955: ars viva

Stations

• 1947/54 Städelschule , Frankfurt am Main (pupil of Franz Karl Delavilla and Ferdinand Lammeyer )
• 1950 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• 1953 member of the "Frankfurt Secession"
• 1964 teaching position at the Ernst Reuter School (Frankfurt am Main)
• 1976 co-founder of the “Frankfurter Kreis”, with Willy Schmidt and Georg Heck , among others .
• from 1990 plastic works: animals, plants, stealing

Works

• Several picture books "South Moravian Journey", "Frankfurter Palmengarten", "Thomas Zach a Frankfurter Painter" (Siegmar Tyroff) and "Thomas Zach Frankfurter Rosen" (Brunhilde Zach)
• Memorial for Klemens Maria Hofbauer in Geislingen an der Steige
• Church furnishings: concrete reliefs, writings, baptismal fonts, altar carpets
• Government and private commissions: wall reliefs, sculptures
• Several solo exhibitions, several times in the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt / M., In the Palmengarten Frankfurt / M

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Zach. Retrieved July 25, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Ars Viva