Almir Mavignier

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Almir Mavignier , actually: Almir da Silva Mavignier (born May 1, 1925 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; † September 3, 2018 in Hamburg , Germany ) was a painter and graphic artist of Brazilian descent living in Germany , internationally known as an artistic representative of the Concrete Art , op art and as a commercial artist .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Almir Mavignier studied painting from 1946 with Árpád Szenès in Rio de Janeiro . From 1946 to 1951 he was the director and co-founder of the painting studio in the Centro Nacional Psichiatrico Pedro II, Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro. He painted his first abstract painting in 1949 and had his first solo exhibition in 1951 at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP). In the same year he moved to Paris .

From 1952 he devoted himself to concrete art in his pictures . In 1953 he went to Ulm and studied there until 1958 at the School of Design in the Department of Visual Design with Max Bill and Josef Albers . In 1954 he created his first “ dot pictures ”, in 1955 his first “ grid structures ”. From 1956 he created the optical art pictures, from 1957 he also painted monochrome pictures. From 1958 Mavignier worked with the artists of the group " ZERO ". In 1959 he founded his own studio in Ulm and has since worked as a freelance commercial artist.

In 1960/1961 he was co-organizer and curator of the exhibition "New Tendencies" in Zagreb and in 1964 participant in the Venice Biennale and documenta III in Kassel . In 1965 Mavignier was appointed professor of painting at the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He founded his studio in Hamburg in 1968. In the same year he was invited to the 4th documenta for a second time as a participant in a documenta .

Mavignier was also active in the field of poster graphics , creating more than 200 posters, primarily for art and cultural exhibitions.

Important exhibitions

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Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964.
  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968.
  • Introduction by Wieland Schmied : Exhibition catalog of the Kestner Society, Hanover, 1968.
  • The Desire for Form, O Desejo da Forma: Neoconcretismo and Contemporary Brazilian Art. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88331-162-3 (exhibition catalog, September 3 to November 7, 2010, Academy of the Arts). In it p. 283 short biography, illus. P. 136–137; Pp. 206–210 Interview with Robert Kudielka / Angela Lammert, Hamburg, April 23, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HFBK: Almir Mavignier (May 1st, 1925 - September 3rd, 2018). Retrieved September 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ulm town hall. Retrieved September 9, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Mavignier, Almir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva Mavignier, Almir da; Da Silva Mavignier, Almir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2018
Place of death Hamburg , Germany