Wolfgang Zelmer
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Wolfgang Zelmer (born April 6, 1948 in Munich, Germany) is a German painter and best known for his modern mystical still life paintings and etchings.
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[edit] Biography
Wolfgang Zelmer
- 1968 - 1970: studied art in London (Hampstead-School of Arts)
- 1971 - 1972: studied art in Paris, France (Academie Julian)
- 1972 - 1982: educational tour manager abroad
- since 1976: passion for Italy through longer stays in Tuscany, Umbria and Venetia
- 1980: "Villa Barca" in Liguria becomes his second studio
- 2000: moves to Ireland, where he still lives and works, artistically active in "Villa Barca" and "Oakmount Studio"
- Since 1978: Exhibitions of his works have been presented in, among others, Berlin, Paris, New York, Nice, Geneva, Sydney, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Nuremberg, London and Munich
[edit] Awards
- 1979 - Erding,Germany, Artaward "Erdinger Wintertage"
- 1981 - Japan, Tokio, Nikkiten Graphic Biennal, 2nd Prize
- 1982 - Monte Carlo, XVième Prix Internationale D'Art Contemporain
- 1982 - Tokyo, Gold Award des Ueno Royal Museums
[edit] Art and work
From the beginning Wolfgang Zelmer was interested in still life paintings and he has constantly renewed his dedication to the study of still life. Since 1975 he worked on first colour etchings and lithographs in the studio of Josef Werner in Munich. He has long been fascinated by the masters of western painting. Indeed the are a constant theme that can be traced throughout his work. Since making Italy his second home, Zelmer´s works has increasingly reflected this recognition and acceptance of motifs from our artistic tradition. In the early eighties, Zelmer used the portraits and anatomical drawings of artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci or Caravaggio as references and compositional elements in his work - inhaling them and recontextualizing them within his own artistic sphere. - Still life as synthesis of past and present. "Zelmer´s current work demostrates an intelligent sense of composition, exploring all the possibilities of symbolic, spatial, and optical dynamic between the still life objects and other pictorial elements." (Martina Höhme)Characteristic for his paintings and etchings is a principal preoccupation with aesthetic considerations: the extraordinary mastery of his subject matter, the powerful appeal of a stage-managed artifice suche as trompe-l´oeil, as well as a more melancholic pondering on the condition of existence defined by life, love and transcience.
[edit] (selected) Bibliography
- Wolfgang Zelmer, Nature Morte, edited by Galerie & Edition Bode,authors: Dr.Franz Metzger and Dr. Helmut Orpel, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-9802859-9-5
- Wolfgang Zelmer, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik Band II 1995-2000, edited by Galerie & Edition Bode, authors:Franz Metzger and Eva Schickler M.A., Nuremberg 2000,ISBN 3-9802859-7-9
- Wolfgang Zelmer, Collected Time, edited by Galerie & Edition Bode, authors: Dr. Franz Metzger, Walter Schuhmacher und Hans-O. Marquass, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-9802859-5-2
- Wolfgang Zelmer, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik 1978-1994,edited by Galerie & Edition Bode, authors: Klaus D. Bode and Martina Höhme Nuremberg 1994,ISBN 3-9802859-4-4
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