"Mountain Landscapes: New Wilderness and Intense Painting"

(Born in 1948 in Planegg, near Munich) "Mountain" - The 1982 Landscape is a Neo-Expressionist work that emerged from a significant, personal, and artistic phase of upheaval. Together with Rainer Fetting, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, and others, Zimmer founded the artists' self-help gallery "Galerie am Moritzplatz" in Berlin in 1977, which existed until 1981. In 1980, the works of these so-called "Jungen" (or also New Wild Ones) were first presented to a wider public in the Berlin building "Haus am Waldsee" under the title "Heftige Malerei" (Intense Painting). After Zimmer had already painted his first "mountain" landscapes in 1978, he went to work in Zwieselstein (Ötztal/Tyrol) in the summer months of 1980, where new groups of works emerged, consisting of powerful images of "mountains," "waterfalls," and depictions of enlarged stones. In 1981, Zimmer was featured in the legendary exhibition "Rundschau Deutschland," and in 1982 he held his first solo exhibition in Groningen and became a fellow of the Villa Massimo in Rome, where he lived and worked for almost two years. In 1984, Zimmer closed his Berlin studio, moved to Polling/Upper Bavaria, and took over a former monastery property. Gouache and mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas. Signed and dated (19)82. 70 cm x 100 cm. Framed.