Daimler AG,
Stuttgart-Möhringen

October 2012 - June 2013

Minimalism in Germany 1960s/70s

Herbert Zangs

Monthly guided tours for employees and their children.
Guided tours for external groups on request

This exhibition show important trends in 1960s abstract art in Germany from the Daimler Art Collection: Constructivism, Zero, Minimal Art, Concept Art and seriality. Starting with predecessors in the 1950s - such as Josef Albers, Norbert Kricke, Herbert Zangs, Siegfried Cremer - the show reflects abstract art developments in the cities of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Krefeld, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich and also considers adjacent Swiss positions. About 100 works by 50 artists are presented from the period 1954 to 1974.

Josef Albers, Karl Heinz Adler, Joachim Albrecht, Horst Bartnig, Peter Benkert, Max Bense and the artists at the 'Studio Galerie' at Stuttgart University around 1960, Bernd Berner, Max Bill (stool, architecture, trilogy, clock), Hartmut Böhm, Erich Buchholz, Siegfried Cremer, Hanne Darboven, Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Ulrich Erben, Adolf Fleischmann, Karl Gerstner, Imi Giese, Raimund Girke, Michael Glasmeier, Mathias Goeritz, Kuno Gonschior, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Hajo Hangen, Erwin Heerich, Arthur Honegger, Alfonso Hüppi, Norbert Kricke, Thomas Lenk, Arnulf Letto, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Max H. Mahlmann, Christian Megert, Christine Möbus, Karl Georg Pfahler, Verena Pfisterer, Gudrun Piper, Charlotte Posenenske, Lothar Quinte, Christian Roeckenschuss, Peter Roehr, Ulrich Rückriem, Eckhard Schene, Alf Schuler, Klaus Staudt, Helmut Stromsky, Tim Ulrichs, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Franz Erhard Walther, Herbert Zangs