Manfred Mohr
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Born 1938 in Pforzheim (Germany). Studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983 and lives and works in New York since 1981.
1957 Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting)
Jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe)
1960 Action paintings.
1961 Receives school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim.
1962 Begins the exclusive use of black and white as means of visual and aesthetic expression.
1965 Studies lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
Geometric experiments lead to hard edge painting
1968 First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris
Systematization of the picture content
1969 Publication of the visual book 'Artificiata I' First drawings with a computer
1972 Sequencial computer drawings are introduced
Begins to work on fixed structures: the cube
1973Receives awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in Ljubljana
1977 Begins to work with the 4-D hypercube and graph-theory
1980 Workphase: Divisibility, dissection of cube
1982 Quasi-organic growth programs on the cube
1987 Renewed work on the 4-D hypercube. Four-dimensional rotation as generator of signs
1989 Extends work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube. Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs
1990 Receives the 'Golden Nica' at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz and the 'Camille Graeser Prize' in Zürich
1991 Workphase: Laserglyphs, diagonal-paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser
1994 The first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich
1997 Was elected a member of the American Abstract Artists
Receives an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts
1998 Starts to use color (after using black and white for more than three decades) to show the complexity of the work through differentiation
2002 Designs and builds small pc's to run his program "space.color"
The resulting images are visualized on LCD flat pannels in a slow, non repetitive motion