Sunday, August 12, 2012

Artist 39: Hans Dieter Zingraff


Hans Dieter Zingraff was born in 1947 in Karlsruhe, Germany.  Early in his life he showed an interest in the arts, especially trompe-l’œil and optical illusion.  In 1972 he moved to Spain where he created works in the surrealist style and he continued to paint in a purely abstract architectural still lives.  Then in 1984 he began experimenting with wood strip images.  From 1996 he began to remove spatial continuity and add visual ambiguity making it radically abstract.  In 1999 he really came into his own personal style.  Zingraff was not creating art in the traditional format, but he was using real depth, volume, and lighting to create his pieces.  Although he has had many exhibitions he continues to create new pieces. 


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