Biography
Jindřich Zeithamml (born 1949 in Teplice) graduated from the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. From 1995-2016 he was the head of the Sculpture Studio II at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In the 1980s and 1990s, he held a number of solo exhibitions, e.g. in Krefeld, Kunstverein, 1983; in Bonn, Kunstverein, 1992; in the State Gallery of Modern Art, Munich, 1993; or in the Kunstverein in Kassel, 1994. He was introduced to the Czech public in 1995 at the Municipal Library in Prague (GHMP), followed by solo exhibitions at the House of Art in České Budějovice, 2000; at the Egon Schiele Art Centre in Český Krumlov, 2002; in 2012 at the Topič Salon; in 2014 in Litoměřice at the Church of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary; in 2016 at the St. In 2020, the exhibition The Picture of the Day in Twelve Stops of Diffusion was held at the Brillovka Gallery in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.
1976–1982 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (N. Kricke), Germany
1982 Bernard Hoetger Prize, Germany
1982 1st Prize Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1985 Kunstfonds Bonn, Prize of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1985 Gustav-Poensgen Prize, travel grant to New York, USA
1986 Hilly-Scholarship Geneva, Switzerland
1995–2016 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Head of Sculpture Studio)
2011 Raketenstation Residency, Insel Hombroich, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1980 Galerie G. et S. Mathieu, Besancon, France
1982 Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983 Kunsverein, Krefeld, Germany
1984 Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1985 Städtische Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989 Galerie Lamaignère, Saint-Germain, Paris, France
1991 Studio Opatov, Prague
1992 Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1992 Festung Rüsselsheim, Germany
1992 State Gallery Buntertor, Bremen, Germany
1992 Galerie Feuerle, Cologne, Germany
1993 Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
1994 Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
1995 GHMP, Municipal Library, Prague
1997 Bayer&Bayer Gallery, Prague
1999 Galerie Šternberk
2000 GKK, Klenová
2000 House of Art, České Budějovice
2001 Caesar Gallery, Olomouc
2001 GVU Most
2002 Egon Schiele Art Centre, Český Krumlov
2004 Galerie G. et S. Mathieu, Lyon, France
2006 Gallery of the City of Pilsen
2006 Dialogues (with M. Immrová), Hall under Plečnik's Staircase, Prague Castle
2010 Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Straka Academy, Prague
2012 Topič Salon, Prague
2013 Gallery Závodný (with Z. Sekal), Mikulov
2014 SGVU in Litoměřice (with L. Fuxa), Church of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary
2015 Galerie U Betlémské kaple (with M. Mucha), Prague
2016 Gallery House, Broumov
2016 GKK, St. Lawrence Church (with M. Mucha), Klatovy
2017 AXA Interpretations, Prague
2020 The Picture of the Day in Twelve Variations of Diffusion, Brillovka, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1980 Kyncl-Moucha-Zeithamml, Düsseldorf, Germany
1984 5 junge Bildhauer, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1985 Sich verselbstständigende Möbel, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1987 Wechselströme, Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1988 Sculpture D-88, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993 Peter Royen und seine Freunde, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 Fünf Künstler - Fünf Räume, Kunsthalle Wuppertal, Germany
1996 Freundeskreis Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen, Germany
1998 Artefakte der Hoffnung, Landes museum Mainz, Germany
2000 The End of the World?, Kinsky Palace, NG Prague
2001 Preziosen, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany
2003 140 years of Art Beseda, Municipal Library, GHMP, Prague
2005 Behold the Light, MG Brno
2005 Winter, Czech Museum of Art, Prague
2008 Peter Royen sieht rot, Arteversum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 V. New Zlín Salon, KGVU Zlín
2008 Nothing to show...? Catherine's Garden, Prague
2009 Stepping into Space, GVU Most
2011 Fundamenty&Sedimenty, GHMP, Municipal Library, Prague
2012 Revue K, DOX, Prague
2013 Schnittstelle/Muster III, gkg Bonn, Germany
2013 Blood Relations, GASK, Kutná Hora
2015 Silent Dialogues - Hilmar, Kyncl, Zeithamml, Cermak/Eisenkraft, Prague
2016 UB - Airplane, GKK, Klenová
2016 Boštík, Kolář, Moucha, Zeithamml, Museum Kampa, Prague
2017 Generation One, Zámecký pivovar v Litomyšli
2020 Reform, Trafo Gallery, Prague
2020 Water, Transformations of the Image of the Element in Czech Art of the 19th–21st Century, Galerie Klatovy Klenová
REALISATIONS
1979 Black on White, No. 5 (graphic art)
1990 Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung, Gelsenkirchen, Germany (sculpture)
1991 NRW Government Building, Düsseldorf, Germany (sculpture)
1992 NRW Government Building, Münster, Germany (statue)
1995 Mystical Diaries, J. Kamenik, Trigon, Prague (illustrations)
1997 Candle Flame, G. Bachelard, Dauphin Prague/Liberec (illustration)
1998 Homage to František Antonín Count Špork, V. Zadrobílek, Prague (set of prints)
1998 Essays, E. A. Poe, Trigon, Prague (illustrations)
2000 The Irreversible Stream, G. Erhart, Arbor vitae, Prague (illustration)
2001 The Way of Friendship, Bílka (sculpture)
2004 Kunst-Projekt Wenzenbach-Bernhardswald, Germany (sculpture)
2012 Underground Water Currents, Gustav Erhart, Papírenská manufaktura Velké Losiny (bibliophilia)
2015 Verses of Bees, T. Vondrovic, Trigon, Prague (illustration)
2017 Bust of Karl III Schwarzenberg, National Theatre Prague
2019 A Poem is a Plant, T. Vondrovic (bibliophilia)
2020 Five poems / Cinq poèmes, Édouard Dubus, Lis v lomu, Prague (illustration)