Dieter Glasmacher (1940)

Dieter Glasmacher

Dieter Glasmacher is a socio-political German visual artist in the field of painting, art action, animated film and early street art.

Influenced by classical modernism, especially Dadaism, and contemporary art movements such as the works of Jean Dubuffet, Art brut, the expressive painting of the COBRA group and Pop Art, Glasmacher has developed a very independent position and a lively, original visual world over many creative years. Television, cinema, advertising, graffiti and other forms of street art also have a formative influence on his visual worlds, as do the "secret traces" of public space, words and scribbles such as those found in urinals, at bus stops or on the walls of houses. His main theme is his "consternation of current social oppression and deformation."