Bernd Zimmer Photo: Roger Fritz
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Bernd Zimmer
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Bernd Zimmer Photo: Roger Fritz
| 1948 | Born in Planegg near Munich |
| 1968-70 | German sailing champion; apprenticeship as publishing bookseller at Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich |
| 1972 | Travels through Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Burma and Hong Kong; moves to Bremen |
| 1973/74 | Moved to Berlin, book designer at Klaus Wagenbach publishing house |
| 1974-79 | Studied philosophy (aesthetics) and religious studies at the Free University; contact with Karl Horst Hödicke |
| 1975/76 | Stay in Mexico and in the south of the USA; enthusiasm for the Muralists (Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco); begins painting as an autodidact; acquaintance with Hödicke's students Salomé and Helmut Middendorf |
| 1977 | Co-founder of the Galerie am Moritzplatz, Berlin (together with Salomé, Helmut Middendorf, Rainer Fetting and others) |
| 1979 | Karl Schmidt Rottluff scholarship |
| 1980 | Participation in the exhibition "Heftige Malerei" at the Berlin Haus am Waldsee (with Fetting, Middendorf and Salomé) |
| 1981 | Trip to Indonesia (Java, Bali, Lombok, Flores) |
| 1982/83 | Scholarship of the Villa Massimo, Rome |
| 1984 | Relocation to Polling/Upper Bavaria |
| 1987/88 | Studio apartment in the Villa Andräe in Rapallo/Liguria |
| 1990 | Trip to India |
| 1991 | Studio in Monteventano/Emilia-Romagna |
| 1993/94 | trip to Libya; further studio in Oberhausen near Polling |
| 1996/97 | first sculptures in terracotta |
| 1998 | appointment as head of a painting class at the International Summer Academy Salzburg |
| 2000 | winter trip to Upper Egypt (Luxor, Aswan) |
| 2003 | Beginning of teaching at the Academy of Arts Bad Reichenhall |
| 2007 | Studio in Warthe/Uckermark; appointed Chairman of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (until September 2011) |
| 2010 | Working stays in Italy and Warthe. In autumn three-week trip to the rural areas of China (Urumqi, Yunnan, Guangxi) |
| 2011 | Trip to Vietnam and Cambodia |
| 2012 | Bernd Zimmer Art Foundation |
| 2013 | Head of a painting class at the summer academy Kloster Irsee |
| 2016 | second major trip to India |
| lives in Polling |
By the river II, 2015/20
Crystal forest II, 2012
Fulmine II, 1992
Origin: Idyll, 2011
Reflection on appearance, 2010/20
The secret life of the stars 49, 2019
Waterfall III, 2011/12
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schloss@galerie-schlichtenmaier.de
Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday 11 – 18.30
Saturday 11 – 16
or by appointment
T + 49 (0) 70 33 / 4 13 94
F + 49 (0) 70 33 / 4 49 23
schloss@galerie-schlichtenmaier.de
Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday 11 – 18.30
Saturday 11 – 16
or by appointment
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/ D-70173 Stuttgart
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stuttgart@galerie-schlichtenmaier.de
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11 – 19
Saturday 11 – 17
or by appointment
T + 49 (0) 711 / 120 41 51
F + 49 (0) 711 / 120 42 80
stuttgart@galerie-schlichtenmaier.de
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11 – 19
Saturday 11 – 17
or by appointment
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