LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Acrylic on canvas, colour lines on colour surfaces permuted

Measurements:

39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed, titled and dated on the stretcher 'Rudolf Kämmer PM Nr 5/85', as well as with directional arrow

Provenance:

Artist's studio.After his training at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Dresden and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, from 1964 - 75 Rudolf Kämmer studied painting with Ernst Geitlinger at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and received his diploma as Geitlinger's masters pupil. Influenced by the Bauhaus and abstract geometric art of the Constructivists and Suprematists, Kämmer joined the "Nouvelle Tendance", a loose, transnational association of young artists, who embraced a democratic and concrete art, in order to transcend the outmoded concept of art and the idea of the artistic genius. At the beginning of the 1960s these included Almir Mavignier, François Morellet and Bridget Riley; in the 1970s, using the same principles, Victor Vasarely's OP Art movement developed these ideas further."Der Absolutheit der Idee begegnet Kämmer mit der Verwendung absoluter Formen, die nur die Eindeutigkeit der Geometrie bieten kann. Mit kalkulierter Strenge entwirft und fertig Kämmer seine Farbreliefs, Drehstegbilder, lichtkinetischen Objekte, Kippklappbilder oder linearen Punktgefüge, um sie schliesslich in ihrer Vervollkommnung dem untersuchenden Spiel ihres neugierigen Betrachters zu überantworten." (zit.: Ulrich Haussmann, www.rudolf-kämmer.de