Adolf Luther
Type | Male |
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Associated person(s) |
Heinz Mack Otto Piene |
URLs | Artist's page Adolf-Luther-Fondation Documentation Adolf Luther -- Galerie Holtmann at Art Cologne 2013 Wikipedia |
Awards | |||||
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Honour | 1990 | Ehrenbürger der Stadt Krefeld | Stadt Krefeld | Krefeld, Germany | |
Honour | 1989 | Verdienstorden des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen | Land Nordreihn-Westfalen | Germany | |
Award | 1982 | Thorn-Prikker-Kunstpreis | Krefeld, Germany |
Exhibitions | |||||
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Retrospective | 2014 | ZERO | Guggenheim Museum | New York, USA | |
Group exhibition | 2013 | Dynamo | Grand Palais | Paris, France | |
Retrospective | 2012 | 100 Jahre Adolf Luther – Chambre de la Lumière | Privatsammlungen | Krefeld, Germany | |
Project | 1979 | Mondprojekt | Pulverturm Oldenburg | Oldenburg, Germany | Mondprojekt – Festival 2000. Dieser Entwurf (von 1976) sieht vor, interstellares, kosmisches Licht in der Nacht zur Jahrtausendwende von einem Satelliten aufzufangen und auf die Nachtseite des Mondes zu projizieren. |
Solo exhibition | 1969 | Luther 1958 – 69 | Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich | Leverkusen, Germany | |
Group exhibition | 1964 | ZERO | Institute of Contemporary Art | Philadelphia, USA | |
Solo exhibition | 1960 | Krefelder Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum/ Londoner Drian Gallery | Krefeld, Germany/ London, England | First solo exhibition / material paintings |
Artworks in Collections | |||
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Städelgarten Frankfurt am Main | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Wandlinsen, 1986/2013 | |
Bundeskanzleramt, Bonn | Bonn | Sphärisches Objekt |
Publications | ||||||||||||
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Group exhibition catalogue | 2015 | König | ZERO | 9783863356965; 3863356969 | Köln | Pörschmann, Dirk; Schavemaker, Magriet | Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 21.März – 8. Juni 2015 ZERO Foundation ; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ; Martin-Gropius-Bau:Berlin ; ZERO:Künstlervereinigung | |||||
Monograph | 2014 | Pagina Verlag GmbH | Adolf Luther, Eine ungewöhnliche Künstlerkarriere | A Remarkable Career as an Artist | Magdalena Broska | 9783944146232 | Goch, Krefeld | Silberne Reihe/ Adolf-Luther-Stiftung | |||||
Group exhibition catalogue | 2014 | Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. | ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s | Valerie L. Hillings , Daniel Birnbaum, Margriet Schavemaker | 9780892075140 | New York | Solomon Guggenheim Museum | organized by Valerie Hillings with Edouard Derom | ||||
Monograph | 2007 | Adolf Luther – The Fascination of Light | Athens | Museum Herakleidon | Text by Magdalena Broska | |||||||
Group exhibition catalogue | 2006 | Hatje Cantz | Zero – Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre | 3775717471 | Düsseldorg | museum kunst palast | ||||||
Group exhibition catalogue | 2006 | Hatje Cantz | Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht | 9783775717748 | Kalrsruhe | Peter Weibel, Gregor Jansen, ZKM | Museum für neue Kunst Karlsruhe | ||||||
Group exhibition catalogue | 2002 | DuMont-Literatur, Kunst-Verlag | Kunst aus Deutschland seit 1945 | Karin Thomas | 3832171797 | Cologne | ||||||
Monograph | 2000 | Adolf Luther, Flaschenzerschlagen, 1961 | 392653091X 9783926530912 | Krefeld | Magdalena Broska, Julian Heynen | Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld | ||||||
Group exhibition catalogue | 1998 | Wienand Verlag | Licht und Raum: elektrisches Licht in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts | Michael Schwarz | 387909604X 9783879096046 | Köln | with texts by Carsten Ahrens, Gerhard Auer, Dietmar Elger, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Norbert M. Schmitz, Michael Schwarz und Hannah Weitermeier | |||||
Monograph | 1993 | Krefeld : Adolf-Luther-Stiftung | Adolf Luther und seine Sammlung. Eine Kunst außerhalb des Bildes… | Magdalena Broska; Beate Ermacora; A S Wünkhaus | 3980332101 9783980332101 | Ostfildern | ||||||
Monograph | 1987 | Bremen : Kunsthalle | Adolf Luther, Licht + Materie, Retrospektive aus Anlaß des 75. Geburtstages | OCLC-Nummer:74835039 | Bremen | Kunsthalle Bremen | with texts by Hugo Borger, Magdalena Broska, Bernhard Decker, Max Imdahl, Dieter Honisch, John Matheson und Siegfried Salzmann | |||||
Monograph | 1977 | Krefeld : Kaiser Wilhelm Museum | Adolf Luther, Licht+Materie-Arbeiten von 1958 bis heute | OCLC-Nummer: 902047006 | Krefeld | Gerhard Storck, Museum Haus Lange | Die Bilder im Raum, Adolf Luthers Untersuchungen für ein neues Wirklichkeitsbild |
Research & teaching | professorship | 1979 - 1990 | Land Nordrhein-Westfalen | Germany |
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Research and teaching
Krefeld, Germany
Adolf-Luther-Fondation
Died
Krefeld, Germany
Awards
Krefeld, Germany
Thorn-Prikker-Kunstpreis
Awards
, Germany
Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
Research and teaching
, Germany
Awarded the title of professor by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Places of work / studios
Düsseldorf, Germany
Task of the judge's profession in favor of the art
Research and teaching
Bonn, Germany
Ph.D. jur.
Born
Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany
"The great theme of his art was making light visible as a reality in this world, so that is can be experienced in a truly physical way. For Adolf Luther light was a tremendous reality; the basis for his work was his conviction of an immaterial, invisible reality to light, which he viewed as polar to the material world.
His Light Sluices (1962), Optogons and Concave Mirror Objects (beginning 1964), Spherical Concave Mirror Objects (beginning 1969), his installations Focussing Room and Laser Room (1970), the Moon Project (1976) , and the large architectural Integrations from the 1970s onward, all map out the individual phases in Adolf Luther’s Light Art.
The exhibition Luther at the Düsseldorfer Kunsthalle in 1974 demonstrated for the first time that his works were preceded by developments in painting over a period lasting almost two decades.
Luther, who was self-taught in the field of art, experimented with the key systems of representation in twentieth century art, with the aim of arriving at new forms of pictures over and beyond the traditional panel painting."
https://www.adolf-luther-stiftung.com/werke/ vom 29.8.2018
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Focussing Space | 1968 | Adolf Luther | |
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Spherical Concave Mirror Object | 1975 | Adolf Luther | |