Gerard Jürgen BLUM-KWIATKOWSKI, COMPOSITION FROM QUADRATS

Acrylic, plywood, 38 x 76 cm (unframed). Signed on the reverse.

Co-founder and manager of the Young Intelligentsia Club "red oberża" (1956-1961), then initiator and manager of the EL Gallery Art Laboratory in 1961-74 in Elblag. Initiator and curator of five editions of the Biennale of Spatial Forms in 1965-1973, which were reviews and symposia of exploratory art (neo-constructivism, conceptualism, expanded cinema, performance). In 1974, he moved permanently to Germany. In Germany, he pursued the idea of "stationism" in art, setting up so-called "art stations" in various places (at Cornberg Monastery, Rigersheim Castle, Hünfeld, Fulda, Bad Hersfeld, Kleinsassen and others). Since 1975 he ran the Free Academy of Art in Hünfeld, and in 1990 he opened the Museum of Modern Art - with a collection with an international profile, bringing together works by artists of Constructivist origin. In 1993 he founded the artists' museum "Forum of Concrete Art" in Erfurt and the now defunct Museum of Reductive Art in Swieradow-Zdroj. He created the concept of intelligibilist art.