Video: German artist Otmar Alt: palette world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you mix a lot of bright colors, you get kitsch or just a smudge. But only if a real master does not have a hand in the matter. Famous German artist Otmar Alt (Otmar Alt) manages to give the world a childish novelty, colorfulness and spontaneity with the help of very few, but very bright colors. Probably about this wonderful and, without exaggeration, iconic artist, designer and sculptor it was worth telling a long time ago - but better late than never!
Otmar Alt was born in 1940 in the German city of Wernigerode, the son of a church musician. In 1951, the family moved to Berlin, and at the age of 15, Otmar embarked on the path of an artist, enrolling to study as a designer. Until the mid-60s, Viola, as befits a talented person, studied a lot - not only to draw and sculpt, but also to play jazz.
After graduating from an internship at the studio of Hermann Bachmann, Otmar Alt began to hold his individual exhibitions in a few years. He worked in the spirit of abstractionism and pop art, feeling with a restless brush for new combinations of colors - and by the 70s the German artist had found his unique face. However, in the 1980s, Alt did not stop honing his style, focusing on Kandinsky, Matisse, Hans Arp, Joan Miro. As a result, we got some kind of original "post-dadaism".
Real fame came to Otmar Alt in the 1990s-2000s. He has published many books and albums devoted to the visual arts - but much more has been written about him and about his lurid and endlessly charming paintings and sculptures. If in Germany and France you say: "In the style of Otmar Alta", not only connoisseurs of modern art are nodding their heads with understanding. Even unique pianos are painted in his unique manner. In 2005, the artist became an honorary citizen of his native Wernigerode, although now he lives in the town of Norddinker. Near the house of Otmar Alt, whose doors are always open to young artists, there is a gallery named after him.
Unlike many masters, who consider design and decoration "routine" to be a profanation of art, Otmar Alt always works with great eagerness in design, decoration, creates art objects for events and even business cards. This german artist as if in a hurry to decorate Germany with its bright masterpieces - we wish him success!
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