A1175: Towards Abstraction
Klaus Fußmann is a contemporary German painter. He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1974 to 2005, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. His work has won several awards, such as the Villa Romana prize in 1972 and the Art Award of Darmstadt in 1979. Major presentations of his work include exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1972; the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1982; the Kunsthalle Emden, 1988; the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1992; and the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, 2003. In 2005 Fußmann completed a monumental ceiling painting in the Mirror Hall of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
Erwin Bechtold is a German abstract painter and sculptor. He spent some time in Paris, where he had the opportunity to work with Fernand Léger.
Erwin Bechtold was the founder of the artist's group Ibiza 59, whose members sought to create art free of subjective expression. Bechtold's paintings from this period were characterised by minimal geometric forms and the use of a monochromatic colour palette.
Later in his career, Bechtold began experimenting with sculpture, creating large-scale works that explored the relationship between form and space.
Margitta Abels is a German artist known for her abstract paintings and mixed media works.
Margitta Abels has received numerous awards and honors for her work.
Abels' work is characterized by its use of color and texture to create complex and layered compositions. She often works with a variety of materials including acrylic paint, charcoal, and collage elements, and her work often incorporates textural elements such as sand and fabric.
Margitta Abels is a German artist known for her abstract paintings and mixed media works.
Margitta Abels has received numerous awards and honors for her work.
Abels' work is characterized by its use of color and texture to create complex and layered compositions. She often works with a variety of materials including acrylic paint, charcoal, and collage elements, and her work often incorporates textural elements such as sand and fabric.
Sergey Yevgenievich Svyatchenko (Ukr. Сергій Євгенович Святченко) is a Danish artist, architect and photographer of Ukrainian origin. He is a representative of the New Wave.
Sergey Svyatchenko has worked on a number of commercial projects, including collaborations with fashion brands such as Hugo Boss and Comme des Garçons.
In his work, Svyatchenko combines elements of photography, painting and collage to create layered and textured compositions. He often uses found materials such as vintage photographs, postcards and magazines and his work is characterised by the use of bold colours, strong graphic forms and surreal juxtapositions.
Sergey Svyatchenko is also a writer and curator. He has published several books on art and photography and has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in Denmark and Ukraine. He is the founder of the Ukrainian Art Foundation, which aims to promote Ukrainian art and culture internationally.
Sergey Yevgenievich Svyatchenko (Ukr. Сергій Євгенович Святченко) is a Danish artist, architect and photographer of Ukrainian origin. He is a representative of the New Wave.
Sergey Svyatchenko has worked on a number of commercial projects, including collaborations with fashion brands such as Hugo Boss and Comme des Garçons.
In his work, Svyatchenko combines elements of photography, painting and collage to create layered and textured compositions. He often uses found materials such as vintage photographs, postcards and magazines and his work is characterised by the use of bold colours, strong graphic forms and surreal juxtapositions.
Sergey Svyatchenko is also a writer and curator. He has published several books on art and photography and has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in Denmark and Ukraine. He is the founder of the Ukrainian Art Foundation, which aims to promote Ukrainian art and culture internationally.
Margitta Abels is a German artist known for her abstract paintings and mixed media works.
Margitta Abels has received numerous awards and honors for her work.
Abels' work is characterized by its use of color and texture to create complex and layered compositions. She often works with a variety of materials including acrylic paint, charcoal, and collage elements, and her work often incorporates textural elements such as sand and fabric.
Sergey Yevgenievich Svyatchenko (Ukr. Сергій Євгенович Святченко) is a Danish artist, architect and photographer of Ukrainian origin. He is a representative of the New Wave.
Sergey Svyatchenko has worked on a number of commercial projects, including collaborations with fashion brands such as Hugo Boss and Comme des Garçons.
In his work, Svyatchenko combines elements of photography, painting and collage to create layered and textured compositions. He often uses found materials such as vintage photographs, postcards and magazines and his work is characterised by the use of bold colours, strong graphic forms and surreal juxtapositions.
Sergey Svyatchenko is also a writer and curator. He has published several books on art and photography and has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in Denmark and Ukraine. He is the founder of the Ukrainian Art Foundation, which aims to promote Ukrainian art and culture internationally.
Ernst Vijlbrief is a Dutch visual artist and board member of several artists' associations, including Beroepsvereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars.
Ernst Vijlbrief worked in various techniques, he also created calligraphic improvisations on paper.
His painting style in the 1950s was expressionist, in line with Cobra's style. Around 1968 he made a series of figurative drawings. In 1970 he created the sculpture The Captain, an allusion to Edy de Wilde as director of the Stedelijk Museum, which was shown at Galerie Kristiaan in Amsterdam.
Antonius van der Pas was a German artist of Dutch origin.
Antonius van der Pas was trained as a commercial artist and worked, amongst other things, in the print shop of the Düsseldorf Henkel Company. After the Second World War he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf where he studied with Wilhelm Schmurr, Werner Heuser and Otto Coester.
In 1949 Antonius van der Paz went to Paris to study, where he met Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard and Pablo Picasso, influential artists of the time. In 1950 he went to Spain to study, and from 1952-1953 he spent a long time in Granada.
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s he travelled extensively around the world, taking part in numerous exhibitions.
Hans Platschek was a German artist, art critic and writer.
Hans Platschek gained recognition as an artist of Tachism or Informel. But by the time the abstract, automatic art of Informel had gained international recognition, he had already shown an interest in the new figuration. He was fiercely critical of pop art as 'consumer art'.
Placzek's essays, which only on the surface appear to be polemical, made him a household name among the art interested public outside Germany from the 1960s onwards. Even today many connoisseurs consider his texts to be of great freshness and clarity.
Christian Sery is a contemporary German artist of Austrian origin.
Christian Sery studied painting at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz from 1978 to 1984.
His varied work deals with space and the position or representation of his works in it. In doing so, he uses a variety of materials and means of expression.
In 2003, Christian Seri was appointed professor of interdisciplinary and experimental painting at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. From 2005 to 2012, he was Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.
Karl Otto Götz was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and active artists older than 100 years of age and is best remembered for his explosive and complex abstract forms. His powerful, surrealist-inspired works earned him international recognition in exhibitions like documenta II in 1959. Götz never confined himself to one specific style or artistic field. He also explored generated abstract forms through television art. Götz is one of the most important members of the German Art Informel movement.
Manfred Dinnes is a German painter, sculptor, writer and art gallery director. He was also cultural editor of Europeonline magazine.
Manfred Dinnes travelled around the world to study other cultures in his youth. In 1973-74 he trained as a church painter-restorer. At the same time he was introduced to the craft of glass painting and glass blowing. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in 1979, where he studied freehand painting with Gerhard Wendland, Ludwig Scharl and Franz Wintzinger.
Since founding Visual-Art Concepts in 2007, Dinnes has created large sculptures from 7 to 8 metres in height.
Sobral Centeno is a Portuguese artist. He is known for his deep and complex abstract works that are characterised by an innovative use of form and texture.
Sobral Centeno's paintings are characterized by bright colours, bold and dynamic compositions, often featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
Sobral Centeno is a Portuguese artist. He is known for his deep and complex abstract works that are characterised by an innovative use of form and texture.
Sobral Centeno's paintings are characterized by bright colours, bold and dynamic compositions, often featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
Sobral Centeno is a Portuguese artist. He is known for his deep and complex abstract works that are characterised by an innovative use of form and texture.
Sobral Centeno's paintings are characterized by bright colours, bold and dynamic compositions, often featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
Wolfgang Opitz is a contemporary German artist known for his abstract paintings.
Wolfgang Opitz studied art from 1964 to 1968 in Erfurt and Dresden. He met A. R. Penck, with whom he made many experimental films in 1969. They also founded the group Lücke in 1971, together with artists Harald Gallasch and Steffen Koonert (Turk). In 1989, Opitz fled East Germany to the West, where he received a teaching position at Lüneburg University in 1991.
Wolfgang Opitz is a contemporary German artist known for his abstract paintings.
Wolfgang Opitz studied art from 1964 to 1968 in Erfurt and Dresden. He met A. R. Penck, with whom he made many experimental films in 1969. They also founded the group Lücke in 1971, together with artists Harald Gallasch and Steffen Koonert (Turk). In 1989, Opitz fled East Germany to the West, where he received a teaching position at Lüneburg University in 1991.
Michael Heckert is a contemporary German painter dedicated to abstract expressionism. The artist depicts and describes the phenomenon of womanhood. He was influenced by the American artist Willem de Kooning.
Michael Heckerth's first exhibition was held in 1982 at Heinz Holtmann Gallery in Cologne and was deemed a success. His desire for limitless expression led in 1984 to a change in the style of his paintings: he turned away from semi-figurative paintings and tried to materialise his mode of expression in abstract painting.
In early 2007, Heckert moved to Port-au-Prince, where he faced new experiences and challenges. Local art, which is predominantly related to Voodoo and the everyday life of the Haitian people, increasingly inspires his work.
Michael Heckert is a contemporary German painter dedicated to abstract expressionism. The artist depicts and describes the phenomenon of womanhood. He was influenced by the American artist Willem de Kooning.
Michael Heckerth's first exhibition was held in 1982 at Heinz Holtmann Gallery in Cologne and was deemed a success. His desire for limitless expression led in 1984 to a change in the style of his paintings: he turned away from semi-figurative paintings and tried to materialise his mode of expression in abstract painting.
In early 2007, Heckert moved to Port-au-Prince, where he faced new experiences and challenges. Local art, which is predominantly related to Voodoo and the everyday life of the Haitian people, increasingly inspires his work.
Tina (Bettina) Juretzek is a contemporary German artist dedicated to abstract art.
Tina Juretzek studied art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf.
Her works are characterised by abstraction in depicting figures and landscapes. The object, however, always remains tangible. In the 1980s, Jurecek created her first large figurative paintings, focusing on the relationship between the human figure and space.
Ansgar Skiba is a German landscape painter. He studied at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1981 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf from 1983 to 1988.
Ansgar Skiba's paintings have an impressive intensity: a dynamic rush of colours, white caps dancing on the surf, lush vegetation that the artist paints on the canvas with his hands, wooden sticks or paintbrush handles and which now seem to overgrow in relief.
Ansgar Skiba is particularly interested in the interaction between surface and space. He often uses perspective, reminiscent of the view through a zoom lens: landscapes and nature are reduced to a small archetypal fragment and convey a strong impression of the beauty of the whole precisely by the reduction to detail on a small surface.
Wolfgang Opitz is a contemporary German artist known for his abstract paintings.
Wolfgang Opitz studied art from 1964 to 1968 in Erfurt and Dresden. He met A. R. Penck, with whom he made many experimental films in 1969. They also founded the group Lücke in 1971, together with artists Harald Gallasch and Steffen Koonert (Turk). In 1989, Opitz fled East Germany to the West, where he received a teaching position at Lüneburg University in 1991.
Armand Pierre Fernandez, widely known by his mononym Arman, was a French-born American artist celebrated for his innovative contributions to the Nouveau Réalisme movement and his radical use of everyday objects in art. Born in Nice, France, on November 17, 1928, Arman's early exposure to art came from his father, an antiques dealer and amateur artist, which deeply influenced his later artistic endeavors.
Arman moved beyond traditional painting techniques early in his career, instead creating his signature "Accumulations" and "Poubelles" (trash) sculptures. These works involved assembling and compacting everyday items like watches, clocks, and even automobiles, embedding these objects in layers of concrete or encasing them in Plexiglas. One of his most notable large-scale works is "Long Term Parking," a 60-foot high sculpture made of concrete-encased cars, situated in Jouy-en-Josas, France.
His work is an essential bridge between European and American trends in Pop art and has been widely exhibited in major institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arman's innovative techniques and philosophical approach to materials challenged conventional categorizations of art and inspired future generations of artists.
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Thomas Schliesser is a German artist who devoted his work to abstract art.
Thomas Schliesser has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980 and has participated in many group exhibitions and art festivals both in Germany and abroad.
Isa Dahl is a contemporary German artist. She lives and works in Stuttgart.
Isa Dahl studied painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. Her works have a characteristic colouring. In a special technique of glaze painting the artist creates imaginary pictorial spaces of great luminosity and depth. With clear structures, lines, overlaps, the artist creates a dense network of overlays and underlays, conveying incredible dynamism and spatiality in her paintings.
Jorinde Voigt is a German artist, best-known for large-scale drawings that develop complex notation systems derived from music, philosophy, and phenomenology. She is a professor of painting and drawing at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Voigt lives and works in Berlin.
Heinz Mack is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art.
François Morellet was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical abstract art and post-conceptual art.
Jiří David is a contemporary Czech artist working in various techniques, including painting, sculpture, installation and photography. Co-founder of the art group Tvrdohlaví . His most famous media work is the neon heart over Prague Castle at the end of the last term of President Václav Havel.
Jiří David studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. His work is characterised by a conceptual approach and a critical engagement with art history and social issues. He often creates large-scale installations that engage the viewer and explore the relationship between art and its audience.
Diango Hernández is a Cuban artist who lives and works between Düsseldorf, Germany and Havana. From 1994 to 2003, Hernández was involved with Ordo Amoris Cabinet, which he co-founded with Ernesto Oroza, Juan Bernal, Francis Acea and Manuel Piña. He is married to artist Anne Pöhlmann.
Sarah Schumann was a German painter. She concentrated on painting and in 1953 had her first solo exhibition at Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt am Main. She joined the women's group "Bread and Roses". During that time she worked on three films by director Helke Sander. In 1977 she was one of the initiators of the exhibition Female Artists International 1877-1977 in Frankfurt am Main and painted large portraits of women.