Kammerer-Luka

Kammerer-Luka (born June 9, 1929 in Gernsbach as Gerhard Friedrich Ludwig Kammerer) is a German visual artist who lives and works in Belfort and Castres (France).

biography

Kammerer-Luka graduated from the Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Rastatt in 1949 . From 1950 to 1957 he studied philosophy, history, German and Romance languages at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn , which he completed in 1958 with the state examination. In 1963 he moved to Belfort, France, where he worked as a freelance artist until 1965. In 1968 he co-founded the Groupe Couleur for paint in buildings. From 1969 to 1989 he was a lecturer in German at the Institut Universitaire Technique de Belfort (IUT), a branch of the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, and was involved in setting up the language laboratory. From 1969 to 2012 he worked with the computer scientist Jean-Baptiste Kempf. In 1972 he founded the Groupe Art et Ordinateur de Belfort (GAOB). From 1992 to 2005 he was the owner of Kammerer-Luka Design (KLD) in Belfort and took on international design assignments for color and shape.

Solo exhibitions (LUKA) / group exhibitions (GAOB)

1959: Galerie Barbier, Belfort LUKA
1967: Center Culturel de la Pépinière, Belfort LUKA
1969: City Hall, Tiengen LUKA; Printemps 68, Galerie Forum, Porrentruy (CH) LUKA
1972: Galerie Rouzier, Montpellier LUKA; Year of foundation Groupe Art et Ordinateur de Belfort GAOB , Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Belfort (1st exhibition)

1973: Art et Ordinateur, SIGMA 9, Bordeaux GAOB

1976: Génération d'un décor mural, ARPA, Paris GAOB

1978: Galerie des Halles, Montbéliard LUKA; Art et Informatique, UNESCO, Paris GAOB; Computer Graphics and Art, Museum of Art, Huntsville (USA) GAOB

1979: L'Artiste et l'Ordinateur, traveling exhibition: Center Culturel Suédois, Paris, Lille, Caen GAOB; International Computer Art Exhibit, Cybernetic Symbiosis, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley (USA) GAOB; Violences, Caveau du chateau, MALS (Maison des Arts et Loisirs), Montbéliard GAOB

1980: Computerkunst, Leonberg GAOB; Art et Ordinateur, Palais de la Découverte, Paris GAOB; Dator or Konstart (L'Artiste et l'Ordinateur), Archives des Arts; Décoratifs (traveling exhibition), Lund (SWE) GAOB; L'Amérique aux Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris GAOB; Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences GAOB; Traçages, Ligne-Signe-Écriture, Tour 41, Belfort LUKA / GAOB

1981: L'informatique a la télématique, Maison des Arts et de la Culture MAC - André Malraux, Paris-Créteil GAOB; Paths of Computer Art, Kiel University Library GAOB; Computer Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (BE) GAOB; Computer graphics evolution, Kreissparkasse Augsburg GAOB

1982–1983: L'Art et l'Ordinateur, FNAC / CISI, traveling exhibition: Paris, Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon, Belfort GAOB

1986: Computer Art, Freiburg University of Education GAOB; Stations of programmed art, Galerie E, Zurich (CH) GAOB; Computer art, Ludwigsburg GAOB

1988: SAGA 88 (Salon des Arts Graphiques Actuels), Grand Palais, Paris GAOB; Zero dimension, Fulda, Gmunden (A), Breslau (PL) GAOB

1990: SAGA 90, Grand Palais, Paris GAOB; Constructive art on the Upper Rhine, Marienbad exhibition hall, Freiburg GAOB; Retrospective, Nouveau Théâtre de Belfort, Belfort LUKA / GAOB

1992: Computerkunst / Computer Art '92, Gladbeck (winner of the Golden Plotter '92 for Livre-Surface, Partition, 1989) GAOB; Constructive art on the Upper Rhine, Basel (CH) GAOB

1996: Signs and Text - Méta-Écritures, Institut Français, Freiburg LUKA / GAOB; Computerkunst / Computer Art '96, Gladbeck GAOB

1997: Siemens-Nixdorf Museum, Paderborn GAOB; Computer Art '97, Dresden GAOB

2000: Computerkunst / Computer Art 2000, Gladbeck GAOB

2003: Ars Electronica, Linz (A) GAOB

2004: Festival Without Coal, Vienna (A) GAOB; Computerkunst / Computer Art 2004, Gladbeck (winner of the Golden Plotter for Métamorphose Numérique) GAOB

2005: European Frieze, traveling exhibition: Paris, Stuttgart, Berlin, Rome GAOB

2007: Ex Machina, early computer graphics until 1979, Kunsthalle Bremen GAOB; Forum Concrete Art, Erfurt GAOB

2008: Figure Mythoszeichen, Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle, Rastatt LUKA / GAOB

2010: Demandez le program !, Espace Gantner, Bourogne / Belfort GAOB

2012: Hommage à Malevitch, Ateliers d'Artistes les écuries, Lure LUKA

2015: Signs, fonts and images, modo Verlag, Freiburg LUKA

2015: Musées de Belfort, Tour 41, Belfort LUKA

Participation in exhibitions

2017: Light & Movement , Kunsthalle Messmer , Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (with Carlos Cruz-Diez , Hans Kotter , Siegfried Kreitner , Regine Schumann , Victor Vasarely , Ludwig Wilding, among others )

Filmography

1983: L'Art et l'Ordinateur: TV film by FR3, 5 parts
2000: Zeitgedicht, Hommage à l'An 2000: CD-ROM
2002: Ballet Modulaire: DVD
2004: Métamorphose Numérique: DVD, (Golden Plotter Award Winner)
2006: Siebengestirn / Pleidades: DVD
2008: Siebengestin / Pleiades: DVD, with three different music compositions
2010: Prelude: DVD
2010: Circulation / Circulation: DVD

Awards

1981: Prize for the entire work in the computer graphics competition, organized by the Society for Computer Graphics and Computerkunst eV in Munich / NCR Augsburg
1992: Awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques by the French Ministry of Culture
1992: Golden Plotter for LIVRE-SURFACE, PARTITION '89, 4-part graphic series. International competition Computerkunst / Computer Art Gladbeck
2004: Golden Plotter for the computer-generated film MÉTAMORPHOSE NUMÉRIQUE. International competition Computerkunst / Computer Art Gladbeck

Kammerer-Luka archive

Founded in 2011 to record, scientifically edit, preserve and convey the work of Kammerer-Luka in the offices of the Freiburg-based modo Verlag. The archive, which was set up in close collaboration with the artist, collects a large part of the artistic work in a central location and makes important literature and additional source material accessible in the form of personal documents such as photos and diaries.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Haberer: Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel: Illusions through light. In: baden online (bo.de). November 25, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
↑ Light and Movement. In: kunsthallemessmer.de. Retrieved December 11, 2017 . }

personal data
SURNAME	Kammerer-Luka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kammerer, Gerhard Friedrich Ludwig (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gernsbach

[1] Jürgen Haberer: Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel: Illusions through light. In: baden online (bo.de). November 25, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .

[2] Light and Movement. In: kunsthallemessmer.de. Retrieved December 11, 2017 . }