Guenter Tollmann
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ISBN10: 3777450316
ISBN13: 9783777450315
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: Nov 30 2011
Pages: 180
Language: German
ISBN13: 9783777450315
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: Nov 30 2011
Pages: 180
Language: German
English summary: Twenty years after his death the noted artist Guenter Tollmann is given his proper place in public memory and in the art of the 20th century. After his studies at the Art Academy of Duesseldorf in the late 1950's, his large format style emerged, which referenced the Informel art style. He used the union of concentrated energy, the breaking open of forms and hazy, almost monochromatic, color patterns and developed them into dramatic events that quickly gained him considerable notoriety. From 1965 Tollmann turned to statuary. The artist earned international recognition for his tough, elegant, mobile sculptures made from plastic and steal. The sculptures, weighing tons, revolved elegantly in the wind. As a counter point to the stasis of surrounding architecture they are the symbols for the play of forces and the balance between stasis and dynamism. At the end of the 1970's Tollmann returned to painting. In depictions of the inner quest, surfaces with abstract expressionist colorfulness, the artist posed existential questions, which for him also stood in a religious context. Where do I come from? For what and why do I live? Thus a highly symbolic series of images emerged, such as the King Series, whose point of departure is the spiritual integration of humans in the cosmos or spiritual signatures, as the artist named them. German description: Zwanzig Jahre nach seinem Tod wird der bedeutende Kuenstler Guenter Tollmann dem Publikum in Erinnerung gebracht und ihm ein angemessener Platz in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts zugewiesen. Nach seinem Studium an der Kunstakademie Duesseldorf in den späten 50er Jahren entstehen grossformatige, dem Informel zuzuordnende Arbeiten. Durch die Verknuepfung von geballter Kraft, Öffnung der Form und diffusen, fast monochromen Farbpartien werden sie zu dramatischen Ereignissen und tragen ihm schnell grosse Beachtung ein. Ab 1965 wendet sich Tollmann der Plastik zu. Fuer seine strengen, formschönen mobilen Plastiken aus Kunststoff und Stahl erhält der Kuenstler internationale Anerkennung. Die tonnenschweren Aussenplastiken drehen sich elegant im Wind. Als Kontrapunkte zur Statik der sie um gebenden Architektur sind sie Symbole fuer das Spiel der Kräfte, fuer die Balance zwischen Statik und Dynamik. Ende der 70er Jahre kehrt Tollmann zur Malerei zurueck. In Bildern der inneren Suche, Flächen mit abstrakt expressiver Farbigkeit stellt der Kuenstler existenzielle Fragen, die fuer ihn auch in religiösem Zusammenhang stehen. Woher komme ich? Wofuer und warum lebe ich? So entstehen symbolträchtige Bildreihen wie die Königsserie«, deren Ausgangspunkt die spirituelle Einbindung des Menschen in den Kosmos ist - seelische Signaturen«, wie sie der Kuenstler selbst nennt.
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