Urs Amann

Urs Amann (25 May 1951 – 7 May 2019)[1][2] was a Swiss surrealist painter. He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several Klaus Schulze records, all in a style reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. He also illustrated the covers of many books, including some by his brother, Jürg Amann.[3] Urs Amann liked to qualify his work as "meta-realistic painting".

Biography

Urs Amman was born 1951 in Winterthur. During 1971, in Berlin, he produced his first oil paintings. In 1972, he attended the Form+Farbe Art School in Zurich. In 1974, he began his career as a freelance artist, and since 1980, he has been a member of the Winterthur artists group.[4]

Cover art

Note: some records (Irrlicht, Cyborg, and Picture Music) have been published several times under various covers from other artists.

Klaus Schulze[5]
Adelbert Von Deyen
  • Atmosphere (1980)
Wolfgang Bock
  • Cycles (1980)

References
  1. "Amann, Urs [Amann, Urs Christoph] - SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz". www.sikart.ch. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  2. Mebold, Adrian (2019-11-06). "Urs Amann konnte wie kein Zweiter vom Dunkel ins Licht malen". Der Landbote (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  3. Jürg Amann, Urs Amann: Übermalungen. Überspitzungen
  4. Biography on the Urs Amman's web site
  5. Klaus Schulze's official web site
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