Helmut Zimmermann Biography
Helmut Zimmermann, born in 1924 in Bohemia, spent the years of the Second World War in the German anti-aircraft in France, Russia and Italy. Despite this, he then decided to desert and join the partisans active in the Piave area. After the war, expelled from Bohemia, he began to study painting and sculpture in Munich and Nuremberg, traveling throughout Europe. During these travels, Zimmermann became passionate about the theories of Carl Gustav Jung, in particular depth psychology and the process of individuation, concepts that influenced his painting for many years.
For Zimmermann, in fact, painting represents a means of acquiring self-awareness, a process that documents the development of the individual and spiritual personality.
The continuous internal transformation has repercussions on the pictorial projections, which the artist uses to discover himself even more and to change further. In this way, his research becomes a path of the psyche towards totality and towards the purification of the spirit.
