Mac Zimmermann (1912 - 1995)

Mac Zimmermann

Mac Zimmermann is a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator, one of the most important representatives of Surrealism in Germany.

He completed his studies at the Werkkunstschule for Applied Arts in his native Szczecin, then worked in Hamburg as a draftsman, stage designer and teacher at a private drawing school. In 1939 Mac Zimmermann moved to Berlin, where his first exhibition of fantasy paintings and drawings was held in 1940. In his works Zimmermann created a kind of mythology of our time, a mythology of nature and historical events.