Hans-Peter Zimmer (23 October 1936 - 5 September 1992) was a German painter and sculptor.
He was born in Berlin and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
He formed Gruppe SPUR in 1957 with the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and the sculptor Lothar Fischer.
[1] After a joint exhibition at the Pavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten in Munich, they met the Danish artist and philosopher Asger Jorn, who linked them up with the Galerie Van de Loo which exhibited them.
In 1961 they were banned from the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) by the Bavarian Minister of Culture.