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3462* RUDOLF KÄMMER(Rudolstadt/Thüringen 1935 - lives and
works in Münsing/Starnberger See)
PM5. 1985.
Acrylic on canvas,colour lines on colour
surfaces permuted.
Signed, titled and dated on the stretcher:
Rudolf Kämmer PMNr 5/85, as well as with
directional arrow.
100 x 100 cm.
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 Geo-
metrie bieten kann. Mit kalkulierter Strenge
entwirft und fertig Kämmer seine Far-
breliefs, 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)CHF 5 000 / 7 000
(€ 4 630 / 6 480)