Urs Amann
Urs Amann (25 May 1951 – 7 May 2019) was a Swiss surrealist painter. He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several Klaus Schulze records, all in a style reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. He also illustrated the covers of many books, including some by his brother, Jürg Amann.
Also recorded as Urs Amman · Urs Christoph Ammann
Urs Amann
- Born
- 1951 · Winterthur.
- Died
- 2019 · Cevio.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- painter · graphic designer · artist
- Fields
- painting · oil painting · surrealism
- Movements
- surrealism
- Languages
- German
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Urs Amann. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3552463 · wikipedia · Urs Amann
In this article
Biography
Biography
Amann liked to qualify his work as "meta-realistic painting".
Urs Amman was born 1951 in Winterthur. During 1971, in Berlin, he produced his first oil paintings. In 1972, he attended 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
Cover art
Note: some records (Irrlicht, Cyborg, and Picture Music) have been published several times under various covers from other artists. • Klaus Schulze • Irrlicht (1972) • Cyborg (1973) • Blackdance (1974) • Picture Music (1975) • Timewind (1975) • Adelbert Von Deyen • Atmosphere (1980) • Wolfgang Bock • Cycles (1980)
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Winterthur.
Birth place
Cevio.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Urs Amann, revision 1365885046 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 15 September 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Ürjingiin YadamsürenArtist
- Uroš ĐurićArtist
- Uroš KneževićArtist
- Uroš PredićArtist
- Urs FischerArtist
- Ursula BenserArtist
- Ursula Reuter ChristiansenArtist
- Urszula BrollArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Urs Amann?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.