Philip Zimmerman is an American

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painter.

Life

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convert from

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, he has created hundreds of religious icons for churches and private collectors throughout the world. Through his workshops and seminars he has worked with more than 1,200 students in six countries. Zimmerman studied under Rev. Richard Osacky, who was later consecrated bishop and known as Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest,

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. A former art teacher in the public schools of

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, he is based in

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at his studio,

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School of Sacred Art.

References

*Rebekah Scott (2005)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Profile of Philip Zimmerman
Retrieved December 24, 2005.

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zimmerman, Philip Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Painters from Pittsburgh Year of birth missing (living people) Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni Eastern Orthodox Christians from the United States Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Protestantism