Kim A. Tolman
German designer
Kim A. Tolman is a production designer, set designer, scenic designer and fine art painter based in Southern California.
Tolman is a native of Jever, on the North Sea coast of Germany. She relocated to the United States in 2001.
Early life
Born Kim Assing in Jever, Germany, she became interested in art and design as a young teen, which coincided with her involvement with punk rock. She was known locally for designing and constructing her own fashions.
After completing school, she became an apprentice then journeyman carpenter and furniture builder. She attended art and design school in Oldenburg, Germany, where she refined her skills.
She also got an early taste for film and art direction for the 1992 German art film Sommer der Liebe, directed by Wenzel Storch, a film which shows the influences of Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel. The film has been described as "something between a kinder-garden birthday-party and a harsh drug-trip with light splatter".
In 1996, after a short career as a restaurateur in the seaside village of Schillig, Tolman moved to Cologne, Germany, where she continued her painting, holding several exhibitions.
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