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Dear Geert,
unfortunately I don't have
news. I have corrected only Ruggero.
Good job.
Franco
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 3:03
PM
Subject: (",) Achim Weigelt
At the moment I am writing a text about Achim
Weigelt for my "Mail-Art Encyclopaedia" project and for a book. Underneath you
can read what information I have found about Achim. Unfortunatley there is no
more information to find. I would like to ask you all if you have some more
information for me, or what should be included. So that there is more to tell
about Achim, who should not be forgotten. Thanks in advance.
Weigelt,
Achim (30-04-1965 / 30-11-1990) Mail-artist,
was well known for his
carefully decorated envelopes. Dr. Klaus Groh (Germany) was accompanying a
student group and Achim was one of them. He heard from Groh about mail-art and
was immediately in it. Later he met more other Mail-artists as Mark Bloch
(U.S.A.), Ruggero Maggi (Italy) and Vittore Baroni
(Italy) during a meeting in Italy. He also met Jo Klaffki who lived in Minden
near his home town Bielefeld and expressed his admiration for Klaffki's "hand
painted" Mail Art works. Weigelt worked in a similar manner. Achim executed
detailed watercolour works on both sides of his envelopes and often made the
envelopes himself from sheets of paper. He worked with inks and watercolours
and had a recurring character in the small "stories" he painted on the
envelopes, a little bird called "Wermoewe" which looked as an envelope. He
created the figure on the island "Föhr" in the north of Germany during a
holiday trip around 1989. He has done also a few Mail-Art projects such as
Strange people / Freaks his last one in 1990. Besides the nick-name
"Wermoewe" he also used "art & design unlimited" for his postal
activities. He suddenly died on the age of 25 in November 1990.
Reference:
[01] Papers John Held Jr.
[02]
e-mail Björn Angermann
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