The German century artist Günther Uecker is dead. According to his family, he died on Tuesday evening at the age of 95 in the Düsseldorf University Hospital. Uecker is world famous for its relief -like nail images. His works significantly shaped the German art of post -war.
Uecker was in Wendorf in 1930 (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) born and fled from the GDR to the West after the Second World War. He studied at the art academy Düsseldorf And developed its characteristic technology there: hundreds of nails, beaten in canvases, create playing lights and shadows that vary depending on the perspective.
Uecker became world famous through his nail images
Uecker 2024 in the Schwerin Cathedral
The man always hit the nail upside down: For the 60th birthday of BILD, Uecker in 2012 created a work of art from Bild newspapers
In 1957 Uecker founded the artist group Zero with Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, which was looking for new ways with reduced expression, light and movement. In addition to his nail images, Uecker also created installations, objects, stage sets and wrote texts.
Uecker’s works often deal with topics such as violence, memory and spirituality – for example in work on the Shoah, Hiroshima or the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were deeply from his experiences in Second World War embossed.
Uecker’s works (up to EUR 2.6 million expensive) are now hanging in museums worldwide, for example in the MoMA in New York, Guggenheim, new National Gallery and Tate Modern in London. Günther Uecker last lived in Düsseldorf and St. Gallen.