Jürgen LIT Fischer

Jürgen LIT Fischer (born March 30, 1941 in Frankfurt am Main as Hans-Jürgen Fischer ; † April 14, 2005 ) was a German Op Art , computer , light and installation artist . As an artist, he gave his name the addition "LIT".

Life

Light installation fractal on the tetrahedron (Bottrop)

Jürgen Fischer received training as a businessman and industrial designer. As an autodidact, he turned to the fine arts, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's writing Klänge . In the 1960s he moved to Düsseldorf , where he frequented avant-garde circles around Konrad Fischer . In 1966 he took part in his coffee and cake campaign in the Schmela Gallery . At that time, the future RAF terrorist Ingrid Schubert lived with him at times . He became an employee and colleague in the studio of the ZERO artists Heinz Mack , Günther Uecker and Otto Piene .

In 1968 he started producing light objects. From 1972 he worked as a freelance artist, from 1976 he participated in exhibitions and solo exhibitions. In the 1980s he experimented with the computer and created patterns of computer graphics using the programming language Fortran , which he transferred as prints on paper and on Plexiglas. In 1987 he was awarded for work on the Ars Electronica a price for computer graphics . From 1993 he worked with the architect and engineer Peter Brdenk (* 1959) on numerous light installations . The highlight of his exhibition activity is his participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1996. His light installation Fraktal on the tetrahedron of the Beckstrasse dump in Bottrop is one of the most popular works .

Works (selection)

Blue wonder , facade design at the Gelsenkirchen-Horst pumping station , Nordsternpark in Gelsenkirchen

KunstLichtTor 11 , light installation at the Kortumstrasse underpass in Bochum

Fire lens (1969), rotatable lens in metal frame with light
Big Dice (1984), Computer Graphics as Print
For Patrick with Love (1985), computer graphics as color lithograph on paper
With intermediate space, to look through (1986), computer graphics
Vibrant (1987), screen-printed computer graphics
Intervalle (1987), Computer Graphics
Dreiklang (1987), computer graphics on plexiglass
Obertonbilder (1991), computer-graphically produced laser-light reliefs in the exhibition Bauhütte Klangzeit Wuppertal , Volkshochschule Wuppertal
Gelsenkirchener Prisma (1994), stele made of neon-lit glass surfaces in spectral colors, Neumarkt, Gelsenkirchen
Fraktal (1995), light sculpture, tetrahedron , Halde Beckstrasse, Bottrop
Einleuchtend (1996), light installation, Zeche Carl , Essen-Altenessen
Blue Wonder (1997), redesign of the Gelsenkirchen-Horst pumping station , Nordsternpark , Gelsenkirchen
Lichtenbergs Celle (1998), light installation, Bomann Museum , Celle
with Peter Brdenk: The bridge in the shadow of the theater (2000), light installation as part of the Lichtparcours project , Theaterbrücke on Jasperallee , Braunschweig
with Peter Brdenk: MeerLicht (2001), light installation in a backyard street, Black Sea, downtown Essen
with Peter Brdenk: KunstLichtTor 1 (2003), light installation on Königsallee / Viktoriastraße in Bochum
with Peter Brdenk: KunstLichtTor 5 (2004), light installation on Alleestraße in Bochum
with Peter Brdenk: KunstLichtTor 11 (2005), light installation at the Kortumstraße underpass in Bochum, Renault Traffic Design Award 2004 (municipal special prize)
Grüner Strahl (2005), pylon on Worringer Platz , Düsseldorf
with Peter Brdenk: Green / blue light meander between the bridges of the Ahse on their way to the culvert (2009), light installation on the Ahse bridges, Ostenallee and Kurpark, Hamm

literature

Jürgen LIT Fischer . In: David D. Galloway: Art ware. Art and electronics . Econ, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 95 ff.
Jürgen LIT Fischer: Jürgen LIT Fischer. "Dreiklang". “Straight-Vibration-Straight”. Art in construction . EperTeam house, Dortmund, Heinen, Düsseldorf 1989.
Fischer, Jürgen LIT . In: Saur General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Co-edited and founded by Günter Meißner. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig, Volume 40: Filippi - Fitzner (2004), p. 377.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen LIT Fischer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jürgen LIT Fischer , short biography in the portal kunstverein-gelsenkirchen.de
Jürgen LIT Fischer , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Easter walk. Brick expressionism and art in public space in Gelsenkirchen , website in the portal detlefsnotizblog.blogspot.com , accessed on August 7, 2020

↑ Jürgen Lit Fischer , website with portrait in the portal dada.compart-bremen.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

↑ Brigitte Kölle: The art of exhibiting. Investigations into the work of the artist and art mediator Konrad Lueg / Fischer (1939–1996) . Dissertation, University of Hildesheim, 2005, p. 100, footnote 217 ( PDF )

^ Friedel Mager: Computer graphics: Basics, image forms and applications in art classes . Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1990, p. 105

↑ Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick: Porting Jürgen LIT Fischer's "sinus" from Fortran to Javascript , 2018, website in the portal sinus-fischer.glitch.me , accessed on August 7, 2020

↑ Gelsenkirchener Prisma , website in the portal gelsenkirchen.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

↑ Jürgen LIT Fischer, Peter Brdenk: The Bridge in the Shadow of the Theater , website in the portal www2.braunschweig.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

^ City of Bochum (ed.): KunstLichtTore . City of Bochum, Bochum 2006, DNB 983303088 .

^ City of Hamm (ed.): When bridges become art. Light art in Hamm for children . Hamm 2014, p. 9 ( PDF )

↑ "Green / blue light meander between the bridges of the Ahse on their way to the culvert" . In: Gerhard Auer (curator), City of Hamm (ed.): Staging Bridges + Light. The light artistic designs . Hamm 2004, p. 10 f. ( PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Jürgen LIT
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fischer, Hans-Jürgen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German op art, computer, light and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 2005

[1] Easter walk. Brick expressionism and art in public space in Gelsenkirchen , website in the portal detlefsnotizblog.blogspot.com , accessed on August 7, 2020

[2] Jürgen Lit Fischer , website with portrait in the portal dada.compart-bremen.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

[3] Brigitte Kölle: The art of exhibiting. Investigations into the work of the artist and art mediator Konrad Lueg / Fischer (1939–1996) . Dissertation, University of Hildesheim, 2005, p. 100, footnote 217 ( PDF )

[4] Friedel Mager: Computer graphics: Basics, image forms and applications in art classes . Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1990, p. 105

[5] Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick: Porting Jürgen LIT Fischer's "sinus" from Fortran to Javascript , 2018, website in the portal sinus-fischer.glitch.me , accessed on August 7, 2020

[6] Gelsenkirchener Prisma , website in the portal gelsenkirchen.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

[7] Jürgen LIT Fischer, Peter Brdenk: The Bridge in the Shadow of the Theater , website in the portal www2.braunschweig.de , accessed on August 7, 2020

[8] City of Bochum (ed.): KunstLichtTore . City of Bochum, Bochum 2006, DNB 983303088 .

[9] City of Hamm (ed.): When bridges become art. Light art in Hamm for children . Hamm 2014, p. 9 ( PDF )

[10] "Green / blue light meander between the bridges of the Ahse on their way to the culvert" . In: Gerhard Auer (curator), City of Hamm (ed.): Staging Bridges + Light. The light artistic designs . Hamm 2004, p. 10 f. ( PDF )