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HANs DIETER GROssMANN

Lives and works Ulm, germany
 www.proprio-motu.de
artist contact
 hdgrossi@proprio-motu.de

They are near us, and yet they are strangers for us, his pictures yet stays outside. He joins them-and distances himself, continues,
– painted in his particular techniques which have become his in a double sense, in his work as an artist. Flight into his pictures:
trademark since a long time. He himself, sensitive creator of this pictures which are his real home and address. Anybody who is
mysterious oeuvre, remained a “well known stranger” for us, a familiar with his work, and who has encountered his paintings at
“homeless person” residing in Ulm since more than 30 years… exhibitions knows the subjects of Hans-Dieter Grossmann in their
We deal with Hans-Dieter Grossmann, painter (by talent and passion) “coagulated” aggregate form: There are the many water-colour
and graphic designer (more by necessity as a provider for his family) paintings of landscapes, the “wall” pictures, female acts woven
– however, he has never become an Ulmian; the same way as he into masonry work or falling apart – the down-pinning portrayals of
would have never become a Berliner in the past. Not that he ever prominent people (without having received specific orders) or the
had anything against Ulm with its Gothic Cathedral or personally “nude” self portraits without pity for himself, the critically prophetic
against any citizen of this town. And here, over the years, he has “environmental’ cycles, expressing a clear position, and the purely
gathered a group of friends around him, faithful friends of a sort documentary pictures like the Brandenburg Gate, Ulm Cathedral,
rarely to be found these days. He ranks himself amongst them, but etc., as well as the colour compositions. (Excerpts)
Gisela Kalaritis (Translation: G. Valaoras)

WOrK 8, 2002 cg / compUter grapHic TRENDS