Leo Erb, embossing, signed<\/p>\n
Undated \u00a0 <\/p>\n
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\u201cIn the extraordinary work of Leo Erb, the great Bauhaus doctrine returns, radicalized and concentrated on its essential elements. Many of Erb\u2019s line paintings and line objects can be read as two-dimensional and spatial at the same time. Erb\u2019s lines are sculptural light ridges or shadow seams; they turn the pictures into things that present themselves to the light, which live in the light<\/em>\u201d Prof. Dr. Lorenz Dittmann.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n W 17 x H 18\u00a0 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leo Erb<\/p>\n * born January 21, 1923 in St. Ingbert; died October 21, 2012 in Kaiserslautern<\/p>\n Biography<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 1943 School of Arts and Crafts in Kaiserslautern,<\/p>\n 1946\/1947 school for arts and crafts in Saarbr\u00fccken. Pupil of Boris Kleint, who represented the Bauhaus doctrine (color type doctrine) of the Bauhaus pedagogue Johannes Itten<\/p>\n 1948\/1949) first own studio St.Ingbert<\/p>\n Beginning of the design of linear paper cuts, sculptures and \u201cline drawings\u201d.<\/p>\n 1957 Leo Erb and Boris Kleint found with other artists the \u201cNeue Gruppe Saar\u201d, which counted itself among the avant-garde of its time.<\/p>\n From 1958, structured \u201cline paintings\u201d and \u201cline reliefs\u201d are created.<\/p>\n These extraordinary works are shown for the first time in D\u00fcsseldorf as part of the 7th evening exhibition \u201cDas rote Bild\u201d (\u201cThe Red Picture\u201d) of the ZERO group.<\/p>\n Since then, supraregional appreciation of his specific expressive formats.<\/p>\n 1961 Move to Paris ( until 1975) Life and work in the self-built studio.<\/p>\n In this further development of the format \u201cline works<\/p>\n Works of kinetic art are created: among other things \u201clinear light objects\u201d, \u201csolar sculptures<\/p>\n 1977 Participation in the Documenta 6 in Kassel with international attention<\/p>\n The entire oeuvre of Leo Erb becomes \u201cthe line\u201d and the color white in all shades dominates and tangentially affects all his work groups (hand drawings, material pictures, reliefs, sculptures, kinetic objects, light objects and hand prints).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31029,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[3964,167],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n