The Sixties
Art and Culture of the 1960s in Germany

Max Bill, Thomas Lenk, Dadamaino, Peter Benkert

Henk Peeters, Jan Henderikse

Charlotte Posenenske, Heimo Zobernig, Erich Buchholz

Franz Erhard Walther, Charlotte Posenenske

Norbert Kricke, Charlotte Posenenske, Heinz Mack, Peter Roehr, Rolf Glasmeier, Ulrich Rückriem

Klaus Staudt, Herbert Oehm, Gerhard von Graevenitz

Raimund Girke, Jan Henderikse, Ferdinand Spindel, Jef Verheyen, Klaus Staudt
© Uwe Seyl, Stuttgart
The current exhibition in Möhringen brings together 1960s art works—pictures, reliefs, light objects, drawings, sculptures—that developed independently as German artists explored American Minimal Art.
Political and social change meant that art’s significance, resources, materials and functions were being questioned and redefined. So artists experimented with serial arrangements (Roehr), the use of industrially pre-prepared materials (Posenenske) and with including viewers and the space in the work of art (Buchholz, Walther). The ZERO group artists worked with light, movement and space (Mack). Parallel to minimal tendencies, the 1960s were characterized by figurative-expressive painting (Grieshaber, Antes).
Artists
- Erwin Heerich
- Karl-Heinz Adler
- Josef Albers
- Joachim Albrecht
- Horst Antes
- Peter Benkert
- Max Bill
- Erich Buchholz
- Hartmut Böhm
- Enrico Castellani
- Siegfried Cremer
- Dadamaino
- Hanne Darboven
- Karl Gerstner
- Raimund Girke
- Rolf Glasmeier
- Hermann Glöckner
- Mathias Goeritz
- HAP Grieshaber
- Jan Henderikse
- Oskar Holweck
- Norbert Kricke
- Hans Kuhn
- Julio Le Parc
- Thomas Lenk
- Heinz Mack
- Almir da Silva Mavignier
- Christian Megert
- François Morellet
- Herbert Oehm
- Blinky Palermo
- Henk Peeters
- Georg Karl Pfahler
- Charlotte Posenenske
- Markus Prachensky
- Peter Roehr
- Ulrich Rückriem
- Eckhard Schene
- K. R. H. Sonderborg
- Jesús Rafael Soto
- Ferdinand Spindel
- Klaus Staudt
- Helmut Stromsky
- Timm Ulrichs
- Jef Verheyen
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Ben Willikens
- Fritz Winter
- Lambert Maria Wintersberger
- Gerhard von Graevenitz
Publications
Exhibitions
The Sixties
Art and Culture of the 1960s in Germany
Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II
Abstraction and Seriality, Zero, Concrete Tendencies and Sculpture as Action