Urs Amann

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Covert art for Schulze's Timewind

Urs Amann is a Swiss surrealist painter. He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several Klaus Schulze records, all in a style reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. He also illustrated the covers of many books, including some of his brother Jürg Amann,^[1] who is a Swiss writer. Urs Amann likes to qualify his work as "meta-realistic painting".

Biography

Urs Amman was born 1951 in Winterthur. During 1971, in Berlin, he produced his first oil paintings. In 1972, he followed the course of the Form+Farbe school in Zurich. Since 1974, he has been an independent artist and since 1980, he has been a member of the Winterthur artists group.^[2]

Cover art

Note: some records (Irrlicht, Cyborg, and Picture Music) have been published several times under various covers from other artists.

Klaus Schulze^[3]

Irrlicht (1972)
Cyborg (1973)
Blackdance (1974)
Picture Music (1975)
Timewind (1975)

Adelbert Von Deyen

Atmosphere (1980)

Wolfgang Bock

Cycles (1980)

References

External links

Web site of Urs Amann

Persondata
Name	Amann, Urs
Alternative names
Short description	Swiss artist
Date of birth	June 13, 19xx
Place of birth
Date of death	1
Place of death

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