Manfred Mohr
Manfred Mohr ( born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim ) is a digital art pioneer.
Life
Mohr began his career as an "action" painter and jazz musician. In 1969, he used the computer to its growing artistic interest in algorithmic art into account. He lived in Barcelona in 1962 and 1963-1983 in Paris. Since 1981 he lives and works in New York.
His first computer drawings were derived from his earlier paintings and drawings and heavily influenced musically.
Mohr attended art school work in Pforzheim and the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris.
He was co-founder in 1968 of the seminar "Art and computer science " at the University of Vincennes in Paris and had the ARC - Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1971, the historically important and world's first solo exhibition in a museum with " work entirely by a computer calculated and were made ".
Solo exhibitions of his work were as Featured Artist at Art Basel | Basel, 2013, at [DAM ] Berlin ( Digital Art Museum ), in the gallery bitforms in New York, in the gallery Carroll / Fletcher in London, the museum culture in Würzburg, in Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern and the gallery Mueller -Roth, Stuttgart shown.
Major retrospectives of his work were in the ZKM - Media Museum in Karlsruhe, 2013, Kunsthalle Bremen in 2007, Museum for Concrete Art in Ingolstadt in 2001, Quadrat Bottrop Joseph Albers Museum in 1998 and at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen in 1987, ARC - Musée d ' Art Moderne de la ville de Paris to see Paris in 1971.
Mohr's works are in many public and private collections such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Joseph Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, at the Musée d ' Art Contemporain and the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and many other museums around the world.
Mohr has received numerous awards, including the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, 2006 d.velop digital art award [ ddaa ] of the Digital Art Museum [DAM ] Berlin, a grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts in 1997, the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 1990 in Linz and the Camille Graesser Price Zurich, and in 1973 on the Print Biennial in Ljubljana.
The first comprehensive monograph on his work was published in 1994 in Waser Verlag in Zurich.