Ulrich Zeh

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Ulrich Zeh (born January 13, 1946 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

Pump house in Kernen in the Remstal with painting by Ulrich Zeh

Ulrich Zeh completed his studies at the art academies in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (painting with Rudolf Haegele , art history with Hans Fegers, Wolfgang Kermer and Werner Sumowski) in 1971 with the state examination and taught as an art teacher in the following years (until 2012) at the Ernst-Sigle- Grammar school in Kornwestheim.

As a painter, he made a name for himself as early as 1970 with his sports pictures by not portraying sport as the most beautiful minor matter in the world, but making competitive sport the central topic of his work in a socially critical way ( adrenaline bombs before the explosion , Christiane Binder, 1990). The starting point was his own experiences as a track and field athlete (1964: Participation in the Olympics World Youth Camp in Tokyo ).

The second dominant theme of his work is the representation of landscape, not as a reproduction of a perceived reality, but as a dialogue-oriented composition of typical landscape forms: colored landscapes and events.

In 1968 he met the painter Günther C. Kirchberger and became friends with him. Kirchberger also introduced him to the screen printer and gallery owner Roland Geiger , with whom he then regularly presented his latest work in solo exhibitions. In the gallery Geiger opened Reinhard Döhl and Stephan Geiger exhibitions of Zeh'schen images.

Exhibitions (excerpt)

International

  • 1974 Lille, Boulogne sm (all France)
  • 1982 Arras (France)
  • 1985 Luxembourg
  • 1996 New York, Montague Art Gallery Link
  • 1997 London
  • 1999 London
  • 2000 Davos Gallery "Eule-Art" Link
  • 2001 London, Bozen, La Spezia
  • 2002 Paris, Dignano Link
  • 2003 Castell de Bendormines, Castell-Platja d'Aro Link
  • 2004 London
  • 2006 London, Barcelona

National

Aschaffenburg, Berlin, Bremen, Euskirchen, Hanover, Heilbronn, Cologne, Constance, Munich, Oberhausen, Ulm, Wuppertal, Stuttgart

literature

  • Reinhard Döhl (Ed.): Ulrich Zeh - City & Landscape White , Leutenbach 1985.
  • Reinhard Döhl (Ed.): Color landscapes and events , 1991. Link
  • Stephan Geiger: Icarus or the rise of color , 1991
  • Stephan Geiger: Faces, Friends, Contemporaries , Kornwestheim, 1999
  • Irmgard Sedler Landscape Reflections and Body Dynamics , Kornwestheim, 2011
  • Ulrich Zeh: Pinturas , Castell-Platja d'Aro, 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture of the pump house on his private homepage

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Toe, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim