- Lothar Fischer
Lothar Fischer (
November 8 ,1933 –June 15 ,2004 ) was a German sculptor.He was born in
Germersheim , Palatinate. Between 1952 and 1958 he studied under ProfessorHeinrich Kirchner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste,Munich . After this he joined the paintersHeimrad Prem ,Helmut Sturm andHans-Peter Zimmer in founding the group SPUR, which in 1959 entered theSituationist International . That year he participated in the "Junge Kunst" (Young Art) exhibition inUlm . He received a scholarship to theVilla Massimo inRome in 1961.By 1962 the SPUR group had been expelled from the Situationist International. He participated in their exhibition at the
Galerie van de Loo . The next year he was involved in "Visione e Colore" (Visions and Colours) in the Palazzo Grassi,Venice before joining other SPUR colleagues in the "Nouveaux Espaces" exhibition inParis . He then had a single exhibition at the Gallery van de Loo.He was a member of the German Artists federation from 1963 to 1994. During the rest of the 1960s he continued to exhibit his work in
Kassel ,Amsterdam ,Duisburg ,Darmstadt andWiesbaden . In 1971 he produced a sculpture for the city ofMunich and another in 1972 for Darmstadt. Then in 1973 he had a solo exhibition in the Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio,Milan .From 1975 to 1997 Fischer was professor at the University of the Arts,
Berlin . He continued to exhibit mainly in Germany andSwitzerland with one exhibition in New York in 1988 at the Stephen Haller Gallery. He lived and worked in Berlin and inBaierbrunn near Munich until the time of his death.References
External links
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
