Wimmer, Hans

* March 19, 1907 parish churches - † August 31, 1992 Munich

biography

Hans Wimmer (born March 19, 1907 in Pfarrkirchen; † August 31, 1992 in Munich) was a German sculptor. From 1928 to 1935 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1949 to 1972 he was professor of sculpture at the Art Academy in Nuremberg. He was buried in St. Georg Cemetery in Bogenhausen. His works are figurative sculptures. He was close friends with Gerhard Marcks. After the Second World War, Wimmer created figurative works contrary to the spirit of the times. Drawing on antiquity (The Charioteer) and certain tendencies of classical modernism such as: B. Wilhelm Lehmbruck (The Great Reclining Woman), he was able to overcome the dehumanized productions of the National Socialist era and regain figurative sculpture as an art genre for the present. In 1955, Hans Wimmer took part in documenta 1 in Kassel. He bequeathed a large part of his works to the city of Passau, which set up its own Hans Wimmer collection in the Oberhausmuseum in 1987.[1] His studio and most of the original plasters are permanently on display in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle.