Paul Uwe Dreyer Catalogue Raisonné

by Schimpf, Simone; Baur, Andreas; Döhl, Reinhard; Gauss, Ulrike; Rumig, Anja; Schäfer, Dorit; Ventura, Holger Kube; Kerber, Bernhard; Fuchs, Heinz

• ISBN13: 9783947563715
• ISBN10: 394756371X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-12-15
• Publisher: DCV

Summary

Paul Uwe Dreyer (b. 1939, Osnabrück; d. 2008, Stuttgart) taught painting as a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart for more than three decades. His oeuvre shows the hallmarks of geometric constructive art: inspired by subjective experiences of reality, Dreyer’s compositions visualize the dialectics of organizing principles and their potentials for variation, a guiding interest that is already evident in his early work since the 1960s and especially in the pairs and series of pictures he begins creating in the early 1970s. His art unfolds a fascinatingly dynamic yet nonhierarchical dialogue between colors, surfaces, and lines. The chronological catalogue raisonné reveals the consistency with which motifs evolve from his early to his late oeuvre, from architectural, figural, and ornamental tokens through elements resembling symbols and icons to complex penetrations of spaces.

Author Biography

Simone Schimpf is an art historian and director of the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt. Andreas Baur is a German art historian. Reinhard Döhl was a German literature and media scientist as well as an author and artist. Ulrika Gauss was a German professor for art history. Anja Rumig is a German art historian, gallerist and the administor of the Paul Uwe Dreyer estate. Dorit Schäfer is an art historian and works at Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Holger Kube Ventura is a German art historian and curator. Bernhard Kerber was a German art historian. Heinz Fuchs was a German art historian.