Wolfgang Oppermann

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Wolfgang Oppermann (born September 19, 1937 in Hamburg ; † March 11, 2001 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor of Pop Art and Conceptual Art . He was married to the artist Anna Oppermann . Both influenced each other in their work.

life and work

Wolfgang Oppermann ("Wopp") studied from 1959 to 1962 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Walter Peterhans and Georg Gresko . From 1962 to 1969 he had a teaching position for graphic techniques under Paul Wunderlich in Hamburg . In 1966 and 1967 Oppermann was a guest at Villa Massimo in Rome . In 1968 he was a founding member of the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg . Since 1978 he has taught at his university, the HfbK in Hamburg; there he was head of the screen printing workshop.

Oppermann has been painting figurative portraits since the 1960s, which he surreally alienated with geometric, biometric or technical elements or text inserts. In their signature form, the motifs were reminiscent of works by German-American pop artist Richard Lindner . For this purpose, Oppermann further developed the lithography printing technique , in which he printed a large number of his motifs and which were published by Dieter Brusberg in Hanover:

“The primary theme of my work is the human figure. I prefer the suggestive formulation to the demonstrative. I regard technical precision as a legitimate means of expressing my intention ... Geometry has become the determining formal element for me thanks to its precise readability. Freehand drawing is only a preliminary state; I use it as a means of fixing an idea. I achieve compression and greater intensity of the line by using curved lines. "

- Wolfgang Oppermann in kunstwerk June / July 1968

He has been designing three-dimensional objects , including kinetic objects, since the 1970s . In 1978 and 1979, ICH BIN KUNSTMALER was made, a sound film (Super 8, 35 min.), With Dieter Roth , Gotthard Graubner , Meret Oppenheim , Henry Piper, Dietrich Helms , among others . The reasons why he moved from the kinetic object to the medium of film he described in a 1986 catalog text:

“Objects were created for this purpose, but over time they took on such a life of their own that, disconnected from the original intention, they could stand for themselves. Here I found an approach to contrast the moving image of the film with a scenario that, not reduced to a fixed duration, can have a permanent presence. "

- Wolfgang Oppermann, art form. Catalog Trier 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Oppermann, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wopp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor of pop and conceptual art
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2001
Place of death Hamburg