Peter Zimmermann

Peter Zimmermann, born in 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, is a painter, sculptor, and academic. He completed his art education at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts between 1978 and 1983. Throughout his career, Zimmermann has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Germany and internationally. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Zimmermann's art gained attention in the late 1980s with his "Book Cover Paintings." In these works, he used epoxy resin to transfer the covers of atlases, art books, travel guides, and dictionaries onto canvas. He also explored the spatial distortions of text through cardboard objects, questioning the relationship between text and visual imagery. Zimmermann's colorful and glossy resin paintings are inspired by digital templates such as digital photographs, film stills, or diagrams. He transforms these templates into graphic algorithms and transfers them onto the canvas in transparent layers of epoxy. Since 2014, he has continued this conceptual approach with oil paintings. Peter Zimmermann's works are housed in prestigious collections such as the Federal Art Collection in Bonn, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist continues to live and work in Cologne.