Concrete art

The term concrete art was introduced in 1924 by Theo van Doesburg and 1930 concret set programmatically in a manifesto in founding the group type for a sense of art based ideally on mathematical and geometric principles. She is not in the proper sense "abstract " because it is nothing in the material reality existing abstracts, but on the contrary materialized spiritual, has no symbolic meaning and is more or less purely generated by geometric construction. Richard Paul Lohse spoke rather of constructive art.

Quotes

" The artwork must be completely conceived and designed in the spirit before it is executed. It should contain nothing of the formal nature of nature, the senses and the feelings. We want to turn lyricism, drama, symbolism, and so on. The image must be constructed entirely of plastic elements, that is, from surfaces and colors. A pictorial element has no other significance than himself After we left the time of seeking and speculative experiments behind us. Looking for the purity of the artists were forced to destroy the natural form. Today, the idea of the art form is as outdated as the idea of the natural form. We foresee the time of pure painting. Because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface ... concrete and not abstract painting. Because the mind has reached a state of maturity. He needs clear, intellectual means to manifest themselves in concrete way. The color is the basic substance of the painting. You only means itself Painting is a means to realize the idea optically. Each image is a color idea. Before the work is converted into matter, it is to complete type in consciousness. It is also necessary that the implementation has a technical perfection that is the intellectual equal of the draft. We work with the sizes of mathematics and science, that is. Using the tools of thought "

The target of Concrete Art formulated Max Bill in 1949 in his introduction to the catalog of the exhibition in Zurich Concrete Art:

" The goal of the concrete art it, objects to use for the spiritual development, much like the human is to create objects of the substantive use. [ ... ] Concrete art is in its last the pure expression of harmonious measure and law. she orders systems and there with artistic transmit these regulations the living. "

From Constructivism and abstract art, the art concrete confined by their scientific thinking (especially the exploration of geometric regularities ), its focus on the interplay of form and color, and their interest in the study of color.

Pioneers of Concrete Art

To around 1903 began a major turning point in the art. Painting and sculpture moved away rapidly from the visible reality. Henri Matisse said that one had completely forgotten when looking at an image of what it represented. It's art, the shape, color and design grants extensive autonomy of the representational. This paragraph of the motion of the visible world was called abstraction. It's about focusing on what is essential, what is necessary.

In 1910 appeared an art, which continued the path of abstraction consistently. Each rest of representation, figurative or figurative, was rejected: " Indeed, has such a - obviously completely become independent - Art still refer to as extreme form of abstraction, as integral or total abstraction? Was that not something fundamentally new front, a full autonomy of the pictorial Visual Design? "

Wassily Kandinsky stated that art follow only their own art-immanent laws. It is an art of pure abstraction.

" The new art has put the principle into the foreground that art can only themselves to have content. So we do not find because in it the idea of anything, just the idea of ​​art itself, from their self- content. The innate idea of ​​art is its objectivity. "

Artist of Concrete Art / Constructive Art

  • Karl -Heinz Adler
  • Josef Albers
  • Hans Arp
  • Werner Assenmacher
  • Claude Augsburg
  • Joe Barnes
  • Eva Bauer
  • Josef Bauer
  • Olle Baertling
  • Horst Bartnig
  • Jakob Bill
  • Max Bill
  • Jürgen Gerhard Blum - Kwiatkowski
  • Hartmut Böhm
  • Andreas Brandt
  • Dominique Chapuis
  • Andreas Christen
  • Rudolf de Crignis
  • Daniel de Spirt
  • Gilbert Decock
  • Sonia Delaunay
  • Karl Duschek
  • Alan Ebnother
  • Rupert Eder
  • Ulrich Erben
  • Rita Ernst
  • Heinz Friege
  • Günter Fruhtrunk
  • Rupprecht Geiger
  • Karl Gerstner
  • Fritz Glarus
  • Hans Jörg Glattfelder
  • Florin Granwehr
  • Alan Green
  • Ulla Grigat
  • Jon Groom
  • Edgar Gutbub
  • Georg Karl Pfahler
  • Helga Philipp
  • Henri prosi
  • Rolf Rappaz
  • Ad Reinhardt
  • Frank Richter
  • Ivo rings
  • Axel Rohlfs
  • Sigurd Rompza
  • Reinhard Roy
  • Nelly Rudin
  • Robert Ryman
  • Diet Sayler
  • Phil Sims
  • Peter Staechelin
  • Anton Stankowski
  • Klaus Staudt
  • Helmut Sundhaussen
  • Ben Suter
  • Zdenek Sykora
  • Sophie Taeuber -Arp
  • Kurt Teuscher
  • Norbert Thomas
  • Niele Toroni
  • Günter Umberg
  • Marie -Thérèse Vacossin
  • Theo van Doesburg
  • Piet van Zon
  • Georges Vantongerloo
  • Jean -Pierre Viot
  • Vordemberge - Gildewart
  • Hermann Waibel
  • Gido Wiederkehr
  • Michael Wiesinger
  • Ludwig Wilding
  • Martin Wörn
  • H. H. Zimmermann

Sculptor of Concrete Art

  • Max Bill
  • Hellmut break
  • Ingo Glass
  • Gottfried Honegger
  • Maria C. P. Huls
  • Robert Jacobsen
  • Diethelm cooking
  • Horst Kuhnert
  • Norvin weavers
  • François Morellet
  • Norbert Müller- Everling
  • Ben Muthofer
  • Joseph Neuhaus
  • David Rabinowitch
  • Rückriem
  • Heiner Thiel
  • Jan de Weryha- Wysoczański
  • Peter Witucki
  • Dieter Zaha

Concrete Photography

See: Concrete Photography

Concrete Poetry

See: concrete poetry and visual poetry

Museum of Concrete Art

  • Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen.
  • Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm.
  • Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt.
  • House Constructive, Zurich, exhibitions, inter alia, of SolLewitt (USA), Erik Steinbrecher (CH ), Jan De Cock ( B ), Anton Stankowski (D), Verena Loewensberg (CH ), Günter Umberg (D ), Carsten Nicolai (D) Joanne Greenbaum (USA ), Beat Zoderer (CH ), Max Bill (CH).
  • Musée de l'Art Concret, Mouans -Sartoux.
  • Wilhelm -Hack- Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
  • Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop.
  • Museum in the cultural memory, Würzburg ( Peter C. Ruppert Collection ).
  • Modern Art Museum Hünfeld ( collection Jürgen Blum), Hünfeld.
  • Sculpture Hall of the Foundation for Concrete Art Roland Phleps, Freiburg - Zahringen.
  • Forum Concrete Art in St. Peter's Church, Erfurt.
  • I.K.K.P. Institute of Concrete Art and Poetry ( collection Prof. Gomringer ), Rehau.
  • Collection Museum Signs of the Times, Museum of Reductive art, Swieradów- Zdrój, Poland.
  • Austria Center Vienna curator Jürgen Blum, Vienna. Over 170 artists will show in a permanent exhibition concrete art, etc Linschinger, Gomringer, eagles, Sayler, Kausel, Teuscher, fracture, Weber.
  • Museum gegenstandsfreier Art, formerly Studio A, Otter village.
  • Municipal Art Collection, Erlangen.
  • Stuttgart Art Museum (Collection devil)
  • Campus Museum in the art collections and art situation - House Weitmar, Ruhr-University Bochum.
  • Clemens- Sels - Museum, Neuss.
  • Ritter Museum, Forest book.
  • Vordemberge- Gildewart initiative, Osnabrück.
  • Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal ( collection of Dr. Jürgen and Hildegard wood )
  • Kunsthalle messmer ( Messmer collection ), latch on Emperor chair
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