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until 22.12. | #1669ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 18th November 2017 an exhibition by the artist Emil Cimiotti.
Emil Cimiotti, sculptor and sketch artist, is one of the distinguished pioneers of (West) German post-war abstract art.
His work was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1958 and 1960 as well as the documenta in Kassel in 1959 and 1964.
His art belongs to important museum collections and has been shown internationally in many exhibitions.
After returning from captivity as a prisoner of war, Cimiotti began his sculptural and graphic work and trained as a
stonemason from 1946 to 1949. Following that, he studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design under Otto
Baum and Karl Hils until 1951, then for two months at the Berlin University of the Arts under Karl Hartung. Cimiotti spent
a semester in Paris studying under Ossip Zadkine. While there, he also visited with Constantin Brâncuși, Le Corbusier and
Fernand Léger. In 1952 he returned to the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, where he completed his academic
studies in 1954. In 1957, he received the “junger westen” art prize for sculpture (Recklinghausen), which helped him make a
breakthrough.
In 2017 and 2018, his work will be presented in celebration of his 90th birthday at the Kunstverein Göttingen (6th Aug.-3rd
Sept.), Sprengel-Museum Hannover (18th Aug.-19th Nov.), Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (19th Nov.-28th Jan.) and Edwin
Scharff Museum, Neu Ulm (25th Feb.-21st May). Galerie Michael Haas presents bronze sculptures, which were created
in the 1970s, as well as numerous works made of paper that are part of a group of works, which Cimiotti began well into his
80s. These paper folds or reliefs include, on one hand, the sculptural aspect of his bronze sculptures and, on the other,
play with coloured, linear compositions.
Vernissage: Saturday, 18th November 2017, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Exhibition period: Saturday, 18th November to Friday, 22nd December 2017
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Image caption: Emil Cimiotti – Strophen II, 2017, Papierrelief, 63 x 95 cm
Exhibition: Emil Cimiotti – Galerie Michael Haas | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin
