Lothar Fischer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lothar Fischer

German sculptor

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1933

Place of Birth: Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Jun-2004

Profession: sculptor, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About 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 Professor Heinrich Kirchner at the Akademie der Bildenden KĂĽnste, Munich.
  • In 1958, he received a three-month scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome from the Arnold’sche Stiftung (Arnold’sche Foundation). After this he joined the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding the group SPUR, which in 1959 entered the Situationist International.
  • That year he participated in the Junge Kunst (Young Art) exhibition in Ulm. 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 in Paris.
  • 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 and Wiesbaden.
  • In 1971 he produced a sculpture for the city of Munich 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 and Switzerland with one exhibition in New York in 1988 at the Stephen Haller Gallery.
  • He lived and worked in Berlin and in Baierbrunn near Munich until the time of his death.
  • Fischer was awarded the Kunstpreis Rheinland-Pfalz in 1990.

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