{"id":1001,"date":"2020-08-20T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikipholie.eu\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2024-07-29T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:46:08","slug":"jacques-zimmermann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nikipholie.eu\/en\/jacques-zimmermann\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Zimmermann"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Born in Antwerp in 1929, Jacques Zimmermann moved quickly with his family to Brussels. It was there that he discovered the Flemish and Dutch landscapers. He began his studies as a draughtsman at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels.<\/p>

After the war, in 1951, he began exhibiting at Philippe-Edouard Toussaint’s Saint-Laurent bookshop and gallery, where many young, innovative artists (L\u00e9opold Plomteux, Jo Delahaut, Jean Milo, Camiel Van Breedaem, Jacques Lacomblez, Marie Carlier, etc.) gathered, until he answered a classified ad to accompany a tour of puppeteers in the Belgian Congo. That’s how he met his future wife. He then became a theater decorator and puppeteer, painting sets as the tour progressed.<\/p>

This one-year stay in Africa (1955 – 1956) will mark the work of Jacques Zimmermann, less by the encounter with African art than by the exuberant nature that he discovers during the tour, and which will remain a recurring source of inspiration (\u00abJacques Zimmermann\u00bb, \u00c9ditions Syllepse).<\/p>

In 1957, he joined the “Phases” movement, founded in Paris by Edouard Jaguer in 1952 \u2013 1953, which adopted the ethics of surrealism. From the beginning, Zim\u2019s artistic work was nourished by the magical realism of Chirico\u2019s perpectives.<\/p>

From 1956 to 1994, he was appointed professor of composition in drawing at the Institut of Saint-Luc in Brussels.<\/p>

During the 1960s and 1970s, he led a triple career as a painter, teacher of drawing and puppeteer. The weight of this triple activity is one of the reasons for the almost total interruption of his career as a painter between 1974 and 1979.<\/p>

It is however at this moment that abstraction gives way to a dreamlike figuration where ambiguous beings dominate, barely trimmed from their abstract soil, half-insects, half-theatrical characters. Next to the painted works are works with felt tips, large black and white drawings in which Jacques Zimmermann integrates the influence of Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s drawings.<\/p>

In the 1980s, he exhibited mainly at the International Art Gallery in Lasnes. In 1990, he participated in the exhibition \u00abPhases -Belgique\u00bb, in Mons, alongside the former collaborators of the magazine Edda.<\/p>

His career as a painter gradually took over, as his career as a puppeteer came to an end, and then, in 1994, as a teacher. Jacques Zimmermann also creates wood and metal assemblies, strongly inspired by African art of which he is a great collector. His painting blends admirably with this type of art.<\/p>

In 1996, a retrospective of his work was organized at the Schaerbeek municipal house (Jacques Zimmermann, Itin\u00e9raires, Catalogue d’exposition).<\/p>

In 2001, he was elected Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art of Belgium.<\/p>

In 2014, he was the recipient of the Gaston Bertrand Prize, rewarding \u00aba Belgian painter of at least 45 years, having his own approach and means invented by him, to make visible his inner world\u00bb. On this occasion, a major retrospective is held at the Centre d’art du Rouge-Clo\u00eetre (\u00abJacques Zimmermann – Laureate of the Gaston Bertrand Prize\u00bb).<\/p>

He likes to explore a powerfully dreamlike world that is situated at the crossroads of invented forms and imaginary landscape. His paintings are composed of plant and mineral sensations, sometimes bathed by a glowing sun or the cold glows of the northern lights.
Today, more than 90 years old, Zim continues to paint!<\/p>

Works in the collections of: Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Mons, Cr\u00e9dit Communal de Bruxelles, Banque Bruxelles-Lambert, Belgian State, Royal Museum of Mariemont, Province of Hainaut, Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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