Tomas Grzimek

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Tomas Grzimek (born July 26, 1948 in Berlin ) is a German ceramist .

biography

Tomas Grzimek was born as the son of the sculptor Waldemar Grzimek (1918–1984) and the painter and ceramist Christa von Carnap (1921–2010). His sister is the sculptor Sabina Grzimek (* 1942), from the father's second marriage came the half-sister Jana Grzimek (* 1964), also a sculptor. In 1953 Grzimek's mother married the sculptor, graphic artist and draftsman Fritz Cremer (1906–1993), who later was Vice President of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR , and moved with the children to him in Berlin-Pankow .

Grzimek learned his trade in the GDR, the pottery apprenticeship (disc potter) he completed 1966–1968 with Hedwig Bollhagen , from the end of his training until 1971 he stayed in her workshop as a lathe operator and former, then he began studying at the college for industrial design in Halle , Giebichenstein Castle in Halle (Saale) with Lothar Zitzmann (1924–1977). After graduating in 1972, Grzimek worked as a postman before he was able to study sculpture with a focus on ceramics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1973 to 1978 . His lecturers included Heidi Manthey . In 1981 he took part in the 3rd  Römhild International Ceramic Symposium . Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , he ran his own ceramics workshop in Kienitz im Oderbruch and exhibited various salt-glazed pieces, before moving to Sieversdorf with his wife, the sculptor Sabine Heller (* 1956) . There he founded the Golem GbR together with Ulrich Schumann in 1991 for the production of bricks and terracotta .

With his wife he founded the company GOLEM-Kunst und Baukeramik GmbH in 2001. Two years after the establishment, the serial production of Art Nouveau tiles began , in 2005 they opened a shop in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin , where their tile reproductions were used during the renovation came and the company became known in monument protection circles. The first designs for step relief tiles were added in 2006. Today Grzimek runs a successful manufacturing workshop that is internationally known for its reproductions .

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literature

  • Peter Fritz, painting, Doret-Nanette and Tomas Grzimek: ceramics. Sales exhibition, August 1 to September 1, 1984, State Art Trade of the GDR, Galerie Unter den Linden, Berlin 1984
  • Doret-Nanette and Tomas Grzimek: Ceramic. Exhibition March 6 to March 23, 1985, Studio Galerie Berlin, Verlag Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, 1985
  • Tomas Grzimek, Sophie Natuschke: Frankfurt on the Oder. Center for Artistic Workshops and Fine Arts, Friedrich-Wolf-Theater, Altes Rathaus Fürstenwalde, Publishing Center for Artistic Workshops and Fine Arts, 1988
  • (Ed.) Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, Ministry of Culture: Art Exhibition of the GDR, publishing house of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Fritz Cremer ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fritzcremer.kulturquadrat.net
  2. ↑ (Ed.) Erhard Frommhold, (Ed.) Ministry of Culture, Association of Visual Artists of the GDR: “IX. Art exhibition of the German Democratic Republic. Dresden 1982/83 “, Der Verband, 1982, p. 327
personal data
SURNAME Grzimek, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin