Wolfgang Grimm

Wolfgang Grimm was born in Bad Tölz in 1959 and died in Regensburg on September 28, 2007. He was a German painter, freelance artist and art teacher.

After training as a technical draughtsman from 1977 to 1980, he worked at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Munich in 1981/82. In 1982, he founded the AKU Academy for Constructive Nonsense in Berlin. Grimm studied free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1984 to 1989.

He completed his studies in 1990 as a master student of Professor Robin Page. Grimm was a co-founder of KUNST-WERK e. V. in Regensburg in 1987 and received a Julius F. Neumüller scholarship from the city of Regensburg. From 1990 to 1993 he had a studio in Elmo, Italy. From 1994, he was a permanent art and craft teacher at the Montessori School in Regensburg, where he worked until his death.

In 2002, he was one of the founding members of the Kunstverein GRAZ e. V. in Regensburg and was instrumental in founding the Schule der Fantasie in Regensburg in 2003. Wolfgang Grimm was also a lecturer at the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunsttherapie in Regensburg.

His life ended tragically in suicide.