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Heimrad Prem (* 27. May 1934 in Roding , Upper Palatinate ; † 19th February 1978 in Munich ) was a German painter of the postwar period .

life and work

Prem graduated from secondary school in 1949 and began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, from 1952 to 1957 studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Toni Stadler and then studying sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Ernst Schumacher . Together with HP Zimmer , Lothar Fischer and Helmut Sturm , he founded the SPUR group in 1958 , a working and living community that was directed against the rigidity of the post-war period. In 1964 his works were shown in the painting department at documenta III in Kassel . Several works by Prem from the Otto van de Loo donation are exhibited in the Kunsthalle Emden .

Heimrad Prem was a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1971 he made a suicide attempt. In 1978 he and a friend committed suicide.

The art historian Pia Dornacher has compiled a catalog raisonné.

Exhibitions

• 1995/1996: Heimrad Prem - retrospective , Bonner Kunstverein , Kunsthalle zu Kiel , Kunstverein Wolfsburg , Heidelberger Kunstverein , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich

literature

• Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985 , National Gallery. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
• Nina Zimmer: SPUR and other artist groups. Joint work in art around 1960 between Moscow and New York , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01253-6
• Roberto Ohrt: The trace from art to the Situationist International . In: Loers, Veit: Group SPUR. 1958–1965, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-925753-03-6

Movie

• Peter Buchka: Departure into diversity: Heimrad Prem and the Spur group . Bayerischer Rundfunk 1995. 28 minutes.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heimrad Prem in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Heimrad Prem
• Materials by and about Heimrad Prem in the documenta archive

Remarks

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Prem, Heimrad ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 14, 2015)  
2. ^ Home bike Prem. Art Directory, accessed April 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Margarethe Jochimsen and Pia Dornacher (eds.): Heimrad Prem: Retrospective and catalog raisonné . Prestel, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7913-1614-1 .
4. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 228 .