Concrete art

Concrete art

Concrete art and design or concretism is an abstractionist movement that evolved in the 1930s out of the work of De Stijl, the futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. The term "concrete art" was first introduced by Theo van Doesburg in his "Manifesto of Concrete Art" (1930). In his understanding, this form of abstractionism must be free of any symbolical association with reality, arguing that lines and colors are concrete by themselves.

Max Bill further promoted this idea, organizing the first international exhibition in 1944. The movement came to fruition in Northern Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s through the work of the groups Movimento d'arte concreta (MAC) and Espace.

Günter Fruhtrunk, Untitled, Screenprint on cardboard (1971)
Erich Hauser: double pillar 23/70, 1970, in front of Neue Pinakothek in München


Representatitive artists

Bibliography

  • Museum am Kulturspeicher (ed.): Concrete Art in Europe after 1945 - The Peter C. Ruppert Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002. ISBN 3-7757-1191-0
  • Concrete art definition reference in Danish that includes richard Winther as one of the main artists in the movement under the area of Linien II http://kunstonline.dk/diverse/ordbog/?id=155


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