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Jamshid Karimi (* 1947 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian Artist.

Life From 1963 to 1979 he worked as a lecturer for painting and art history at the Ministry of Culture in Shiraz. During this time he focused in his art work on scene painting, architecture, painting and graphic arts. More than 40 exhibitions showed his work in Teheran, Shiraz, Paris, Stuttgart, and Essen. The political situation in Iran in the 1979s did not allow him to work as an egalitarian and open minded thinker and painter. 1983 he emigrated with his family to Germany (Bonn), where he is still living and working. In Germany he continued his work as an art teacher with a therapeutic approach at schools for handicapped children. He organized exhibitions for his classes in several museums of art in Bonn. It is quite difficult to classify Jamshid Karimi's work in a stylistic way. He went through various mental levels searching the right form of expression. When he worked in his home country Iran, his artistic work was already strongly influenced by an open minded way of reflecting his environment, excluding any geocentric world view, which makes it impossible to describe his work with any kind of „-ism“. It only can be circumscribed, if one tries to describe his special way of expression. His work besomes visible as the viewer attempts to understand his special way of expression. In his art he assimilates a deep reflectionof the world around and behind us. Every painting is a sequel, an evolution from the past to the future. He shows mankind as the centre of hgher creation, that destroys the circular flow of nature without any understanding. But after all, there is still a touch of hope in his pictures.

Exhibitions:

1973

Gallery Nagsh, Teheran, Iran

Gallery Tachte Jamshid, Teheran, Iran

1974

International Exhibition Iran und Frankreich

1976

Goethe Institut Iran, Festival of Arts Shiraz

1977

Festival of Arts Iran

1978

Museum „Shahyad“

1984

BBK Hahnentorburg, Cologne

Artist Market, Sankt Augustin

1985

Liberal Center, Cologne

Town Hall, Stuttgart

„Exhibition of the Year“, Bundesverband Bildender Künstler, Blumen-Halle, Bonn

1986

Town Hall, Essen

Frauenmuseum, Bonn

„Bonner Regionale '86“ Artist Show, Redoute, Bonn

Gallery in the historic Zenthof, Sinzig

1987

German and Foreign Artists, Cologne

Forum of Artists, Bonn

Group exhibition with artists from Oxford

Exhibition of the Year, Federal Association of Artists

1988	Forum of Artists, Bonn

1995

Police Headquarters, Bonn, „Art Against Violence“

1999

Kurfürstliches Schloss, Koblenz

Burg Ockenfels, Linz / Rhein

2000

Post Ministry, Bonn

2001

Immobilien-Zentrum Deutsche Post, Bonn

2002

Airport-Art, International Contemporary Arts, Frankfurt Airport

2003

Gallery of Fine Arts, Königswinter

Works in Collections and Museums:

Museum Lagvardi, Teheran Museum Kurfürstliches Schloss, Koblenz Burg Ockenfels, Linz / Rhein Volksbank AG Deutsche Post Wasserwerk, Köln