Walter Zimbrich
Walter Zimbrich (born September 14, 1933 in Neu-Isenburg ; † 2012 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter , typographer , printer , illustrator and author. Since 1967 he has also used the pseudonym Friedhelm Steiner as an author and Henk Estau as a painter .
Life
Walter Zimbrich studied philosophy, history, economics and law at the University of Frankfurt from 1954 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1959 he then completed an art education course at the Pedagogical Institute in Darmstadt / Jugenheim . Then he worked as a teacher. As an artist he was self-taught. His artistic occupation began between 1952 and 1955 in a group around the painter Werner Seippel in Neu-Isenburg. During his studies he took painting lessons with Hans Meyers and from 1957 to 1962 with Walter Kroe (d. I. Walter Kroemmelbein). In 1963 he also began to teach himself about printing techniques and typesetting.
In 1963 and 1966 he was co-initiator and co-founder of the group “Patio” in Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt, which at times included Horst Baerenz, Mario Barahona, Walter Kroe, Dieter Wetzk, Klaus Münchschwander, Roland Kunkel, Günter Scherer, Karl Riha and Walter E. Richartz counted.
Since 1953 he has had solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and exhibition participations in Munich, Frankfurt, Gießen, Neu-Isenburg, Hamburg, Cologne, Basel, Bonn, Darmstadt, Siegen, Göttingen, Reims, Amsterdam, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Bochum, Zurich, Heidelberg, Nuremberg , Berlin, Versmold, Gütersloh and Wetzlar.
In the period from 1965 to 1982 Zimbrich realized numerous concepts with the “Patio” group, e. B. S-art, beautiful living, 36-hour tautology, Häppi Börsdee Ämerrikä !, post-art, tampering in the B-level of the Frankfurt main station, homage to Ferdinand Cheval. Since 1964 he has been creating illustrations for books in hand press publishers . He wrote short stories ( Black days for the white Mr Peters , 1967) and worked as a translator from French.
His preferred artistic techniques were collage , wood printing (xylomontages) and painting.
Artistic development and work phases
- 1955–1957: Graphically determined informal images
- 1957–1959: Informal pictures with certain colors
- 1960–1961: predominantly figurative graphic works
- 1962–1963: predominantly figurative paintings
- 1963–1964: Discordant Pictures
- 1964–1965: Indians and Revolutionary Pictures
- 1966–1968: portraits and fashion pictures, collages made of PVC film
- from 1969: almost exclusively realization of own and collective concepts, etc. a. "Hang it"
- from 1979: tie pictures, playing cards, tables
- from 1984: landscape models, landscape codes
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1959: Galerie Krauch and Fincke, Giessen
- 1964: Gallery in the Center, Göttingen
- 1968: Adam Silk Gallery, Frankfurt
- 1988: Galerie et, Versmold
- 1988: Kunstverein, Wetzlar
- 1991: Galerie Grimm, Frankfurt / M
- 1991: Galerie Himmelträger, Heidelberg
- 1992: APEX Gallery, Göttingen
- 1996: Galerie arteMlS, Darmstadt
Group exhibitions
- 1964: Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt
- 1966: "Young Art in Hessen", gallery in the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
- 1979: "pop sammlung beck", Rheinisches Landesmuseum , Bonn and Kunsthalle , Darmstadt
- 1984–1985: Contemporary German book illustration, Goethe-Institut in Amsterdam, Madrid, Sao Paolo
- 1994: Museum for Work and Technology , Mannheim
- 1999: "Hessiale", Wiesbaden, Bonn
- 2000: "Signs of Life", Orangery Darmstadt
- 2010: "Word and Image - Art and Literature in Dialog", Ulrich Haasch Gallery, Darmstadt
Web links
- https://hugenottenhalle.de/mehr-kultur/kunst-in-der-hugenottenhalle/
- Timm Ulrichs on the Patio Gallery and Walter Zimbrich
- Literature by and about Walter Zimbrich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and with Walter Zimbrich Germanistik on the net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Zimbrich, Walter. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1988. 60th year Gruyter, Berlin 1988.
- ↑ Works from the MMK collection In: Website Museum für Moderne Kunst . Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ↑ a b Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms. novum publishing, 2011, p. 371. ( online )
- ^ City of Science Darmstadt: Words and Images. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimbrich, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steiner, Friedhelm (pseudonym); Estau, Henk (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, typographer, printer and alchemical artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neu-Isenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2012 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |