Urs Amann (25 May 1951 – 7 May 2019) was a

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. He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several

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records, all in a style reminiscent of

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. He also illustrated the covers of many books, including some by his brother,

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. Urs Amann liked to qualify his work as "meta-realistic painting".

Biography

Urs Amman was born 1951 in

Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austri ...

. During 1971, in

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, he produced his first oil paintings. In 1972, he followed the course of 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.

Cover art

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

Klaus Schulze's official web site
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Irrlicht Irrlicht may refer to: * Irrlicht, the German name for will-o'-the-wisp, the ghostly light sometimes seen at night over bogs and swamps * "Irrlicht", the ninth song in the '' Winterreise'' cycle by Franz Schubert * ''Irrlicht'' (album), by Klau ...

'' (1972) * ''

Cyborg A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of ''cybernetic'' and ''organism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.

'' (1973) * ''

Blackdance ''Blackdance'' is the third album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1974, and in 2007 was the twenty-fifth Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. For the first time Schulze uses "real" synthesizers and a singer. "Voices of Sy ...

'' (1974) * ''

Picture Music ''Picture Music'' is the fourth album of electronic music by German musician Klaus Schulze. It was recorded in late 1974 and released in January 1975 on Brain Records. In 2005 this was the second Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. T ...

'' (1975) * ''

Timewind ''Timewind'' is the fifth album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1975, and in 2006 was the twenty-second Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. It is Schulze's first solo album to use a sequencer. For many years this was h ...

'' (1975) ;

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* ''Atmosphere'' (1980) ; Wolfgang Bock * ''Cycles'' (1980)

References

External links

Website of Urs Amann
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