Gerhard Merz

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Gerhard Merz - German artist Gerhard Merz in his younger years. He is most famous for his strict, static, geometrical installations touched by playful lights. According to him people haven't realized yet how much of a radical departure from earlier art is taking place. This picture was found on Terminartors.

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German artists whom made it's first paintings influenced by Francis Bacon and Uwe Lausen. His work is infused with the conviction that it is modernism, which uses architectonic means and follows the conventions inherent in art: dimension, color, light, area and space. He went on to make successful installations in which he references literature, art, history and political history as well as the development of new wide-format and monochrome.

According to Merz there are only three things in the fine arts: measure, cold and light. To him those are the naked weapons of art, nothing else is relevant. Art as a grammar within a set horizon. Light gives the magic; it is the transformation of art.

He exhibited his work a total of four times in a row at the Documenta in Kassel. After that he received an appointment as a professor at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf. Later he went on to make the rooms of the Federal Foreing Office in Berlin together with architect Hans Kollhoff. In 2004 he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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