Paintings of Helmut Zimmermann
Helmut Zimmermann was born in 1924 in Aussig, Bohemia. After the war he studied at the Kunsthochschule in Munich and at the Akademie in Nuremberg. Zimmermann developed his “Bilderverwandlungen” after travelling Europe, USA, North-Africa, India, Japan and China and reading Martin Heidegger and C.G. Jung.
Helmut Zimmermann’s “Bilderverwandlungen” comprised of faces and mandalas, mystic paintings of circles or polygones. Apart from painting Helmut Zimmermann was also active as a writer and producer of animation movies, in which he showed a series of metamorphoses. Zimmermann shot each state within the painting process and shows the metamorphosis. The different states of the unfinished paintings are conserved within his films.
In the fall of 2004 Zimmermann donated his collection of films to the Film Museum in Munich.