| Otmar alto is born in the year 1940 in Wernigerode/resin. It visits the university of the forming arts in Berlin following the master school for arts and crafts and in the year 1960, where alto master pupil of Professor H becomes. brook man. In the time of its study he works as a scenery assistant on the theatres in Trier and Frankfurt and undertakes many journeys abroad to Finland, Greece, Paris, Canada and into the USA. In the year 1965 alto in the gallery contactor in Bad Godesberg has the first single exhibition of its pictures painted in oil and acryl. The young artist keeps two years subsequently, later with the participation in the residents of Munich exhibition collage 67 the publicized Franz raw price. The artist community alto joins edition external art in the year 1969 and develops in the following years independently of this union many architecture-referred wall organizations, relief and well in the public area of German cities. Beginning of the 70's uses its occupation with graphic techniques, at the same time develops for plastics and sculptures from bronze, plastic and wood. Its first training art-relating to crafts following, the artist extends his creative work to the ranges of the everyday life Design and sketches beside Kinderspielzeug, starting from 1978 porcelain figures for the company Rosenthal and illustrates since 1970 Kinderbücher. Alto pictorial ¼ uvre represents the basis for this versatile formative doing. On the basis of abstract paintings, which are affected by the Informel, Otmar expresses alto in pictorial expressiver gesture Kraft of the colors in large, subtly completed surfaces. At the beginning of the 60's alto trains its own Figuration, takes themselves back as an artist in its handwriting and it develops for puzzles or Glasfenstern related paintings, whose indication repertoire composes itself of tiermythologischen and biomorphen ark types. This fairy taleful picture world tends by one to geometrical bending wording to decorative Formelhaftigkeit. Alto works appeal together with the poetic titles to the imaginative power and the fantasy of the art public. In the late phase of its work a change from the Plakativen adjusts itself to the pictorial one, without the artist Otmar alto deviates thereby from his basic concept. Various exhibitions in German galleries and museums present the comprehensive work of the artist. In the year 1994 Otmar alto is appointed the honour citizen of the Ruhr district and four years later to him Order of Merit is lent.
Germany, 1940 -
An established German artist, Otmar Alt works in a variety of mediums. A bright color palette and unfamiliar figures are a continuous thread throughout his work. He combines apparently contrasting elements to form a harmonious whole that exudes an apparently carefree lightness.
Alt studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin where he was particularly influenced by the Informality of the 1960s. He exhibits internationally, and his work forms a part of public and private collections around the world.
Alt was born in Werningrode and studied at the Berlin Meisterschule für Kunsthandwerk and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst. He now lives in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Alt made a rapid rise in the Avantgarde circle and is recognised as one of the most important modern German artists. His work extends across a wide range, from porcelain and furniture to paintings and prints, and is inspired by everything around him, including his private zoo. When talking about his work, Alt speaks of a 'Schwingungsfeld', or 'field of vibrations' which is set up in any composition and which refers to the particular relationships established in the composition between all the pictorial elements, including colour. This cannot be planned and engages the interest of each viewer, leading them into a journey through the image to which they bring their own thoughts and reactions and which is therefore always unique.
Alt was born in Werningrode and studied at the Berlin Meisterschule für Kunsthandwerk and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst. He now lives in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Alt made a rapid rise in the Avantgarde circle and is recognised as one of the most important modern German artists. His work extends across a wide range, from porcelain and furniture to paintings and prints, and is inspired by everything around him, including his private zoo. When talking about his work, Alt speaks of a 'Schwingungsfeld', or 'field of vibrations' which is set up in any composition and which refers to the particular relationships established in the composition between all the pictorial elements, including colour. This cannot be planned and engages the interest of each viewer, leading them into a journey through the image to which they bring their own thoughts and reactions and which is therefore always unique.
German, b.1940
Alt was born in Werningrode and studied at the Berlin Meisterschule für Kunsthandwerk and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst. He now lives in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Alt made a rapid rise in the Avantgarde circle and is recognised as one of the most important modern German artists. His work extends across a wide range, from porcelain and furniture to paintings and prints, and is inspired by everything around him, including his private zoo. When talking about his work, Alt speaks of a 'Schwingungsfeld', or 'field of vibrations' which is set up in any composition and which refers to the particular relationships established in the composition between all the pictorial elements, including colour. This cannot be planned and engages the interest of each viewer, leading them into a journey through the image to which they bring their own thoughts and reactions and which is therefore always unique.
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German, b.1940
Alt was born in Werningrode and studied at the Berlin Meisterschule für Kunsthandwerk and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst. He now lives in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Alt made a rapid rise in the Avantgarde circle and is recognised as one of the most important modern German artists. His work extends across a wide range, from porcelain and furniture to paintings and prints, and is inspired by everything around him, including his private zoo. When talking about his work, Alt speaks of a 'Schwingungsfeld', or 'field of vibrations' which is set up in any composition and which refers to the particular relationships established in the composition between all the pictorial elements, including colour. This cannot be planned and engages the interest of each viewer, leading them into a journey through the image to which they bring their own thoughts and reactions and which is therefore always unique. |
