Withinthe second generation of German Surrealism Mac Zimmermann (actually Max Zimmermann) counts among the most renowned artists.
Mac Zimmermann, who at first had to make a living as an art teacher, illustrator and stage designer, was imposed with an occupational ban by the National Socialists, he could continue his career only after World War II. In those days he was active as, among other, professor at the Berlin and Munich art academies. Mac Zimmermann's surreal-phantastic oeuvre, which comprises dream-like subjects between mythology and hallucination in particularly exact executions with a great love for the detail, covers numerous techniques of painting and printing, such as oil, gouache, tempera, etching, lithography and drawing.
The single exhibition "Mac Zimmermann und der Phantastische Realismus" in the 'Neue Museum Weimar' honored the importan German surrealist in 2010.