Paul Uwe Dreyer - Werkverzeichnis der Gemalde, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafiken

Paul Uwe Dreyer (b. 1939, Osnabruck; d. 2008, Stuttgart) taught painting as a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste 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 raisonne 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.

Publisher: DCV

Published: 5 November 2021

Format: Hardback, 384 pages

Age Range: 0+

Dimensions: 32 x 25 centimeters (2.97 kg)

Writer: Simone Schimpf, Andreas Baur, Reinhard Doehl, Ulrike Gauss

About the AuthorSimone Schimpf is an art historian and director of the Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt. Andreas Baur is a German art historian. Reinhard Doehl was a German literature and media scientist as well as an author and artist. Ulrika Gauss was a German professor for art history. Anja Rumigis a German art historian, gallerist, and the administor of the Paul Uwe Dreyer estate. Dorit Schafer 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.