Tomas Schmit

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Tomas Schmit (born July 13, 1943 in Wipperfürth ; † October 4, 2006 in Berlin ) was an action and concept artist , draftsman and author. He is one of the pioneers of the Fluxus movement in the early 1960s.

life and work

Schmit grew up in Thier in the Bergisches Land and in Cologne . In 1961 he met Nam June Paik , through whom he met George Maciunas and the first Fluxus activities. In 1962 he took part in the performance of Neo-Dada in Music , hosted by the Düsseldorfer Kammerspiele, as well as the parallel performances of the latest music in Amsterdam, and developed his first "pieces". In the following years he took part in most of the European Fluxus manifestos and organized the Festival of New Art on July 20, 1964 at the Technical University in Aachen , which was entitled “Actions / Agit-Pop / Decollage / Happening / Events / Antiart / L'autrisme / Art Total / Refluxus ”was held there and artists such as Joseph Beuys , Arthur Køpcke , Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik performed as performers. On June 5, 1965, Schmit performed in 24 hours , organized by the Parnass Gallery in Wuppertal, with the “action without an audience”. In the same year Schmit moved to Berlin, worked with Ludwig Gosewitz and Gerhard Rühm and performed, together with these and other Fluxus artists, at the music festival in the Galerie René Block in the Forum Theater.

Schmit has been working on language and text since the early 1960s and began drawing in the late 1960s. In the winter semester and the summer semester of 1979/80 he taught at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Tomas Schmit Archive, Berlin

The artist's estate and the tomas schmit archive , Berlin are managed by the gallery owner Barbara Wien. The archive is not open to the public.

Awards and honors

Catalog raisonnés

  • catalog 1. Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1978
  • catalog 2nd DAAD gallery , Berlin and Sprengel Museum, Hanover 1987
  • catalog 3. Im Portikus, Frankfurt / Main 1997, ISBN 3-928071-33-5 .
  • catalog 4. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (ed. by Barbara Wien and Wilma Lukatsch), Cologne 2007

Primary literature

  • The good thinking , from the world of the world, volume 1. A book with 149 drawings, 6. illustrations, 10 stickers, 2 bookmarks and a surprise, 172 pages, 15 × 14 cm, multiple, edition 408, self-published Berlin 1970.
  • first draft (of a central aesthetic). Self-published in Berlin 1989.
  • tomas schmit reads his own texts, vol. 1, audio CD, 74 min. 50 sec .. Unlimited edition, numbered and signed, Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • tomas schmit reads his own texts, vol. 2, audio CD, 78 min. 21 sec .. Unlimited edition, numbered and signed, Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Tomas Schmit / Wilma Lukatsch: Thirteen Monday Talks. Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2008.

Secondary literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tomas schmit archive. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmit, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, object artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wipperfürth
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2006
Place of death Berlin