The artist
«The process of blowing in a metal net as an old technical method has only a secondary importance according to Zimmermann. His purpose is to display the main order principlesand create global regularities.The grid and the setting of cell-shaped bubles which it produces within the glass is no more than an appropriate artistic means, no more, no less ...».
Helmut RICKE
Biography
Born in 1940, lived in Germany.
Since 1968 : as an independent artist who expresses himself through glass and different techniques of glass making.
Since 1976, as a teacher in glass making in the Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
In 1978 he will be rewarded with the gold of the Bavaria State. It ‘s since 1977 in his search of the “Inneraum “, that he exhibits fashioned trellis works which he opens with breaks with also the use sand casting. A great number of these artist‘s creations are exhibited in more than twenty museums in Germany as well as in Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, Switzerlland and the USA .
