Kurd Alsleben

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Kurd Alsleben (born June 14, 1928 in Königsberg ; † November 8, 2019 in Hamburg ) was an intermediate artist .

Artistic career

Alsleben studied fine arts in Karlsruhe with Otto Laible at the State Academy of Fine Arts . From 1956 he worked together with Eberhard Schnelle in the development of so-called office landscapes, and from 1960 with Cord Passow (free computer drawings as reciprocal communication on the analog computer at DESY in Hamburg ), and later with Helmar Frank and Abraham Moles .

In 1965 he became a lecturer for structural theory and switching algebra at the Ulm School of Design under Tomás Maldonado . Since 1970 he has been a professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with the establishment of the 'Interdisciplinary Computing Department' of the HFBK Hamburg (1985).

Alsleben was married to Antje Eske .

literature

  • Aesthetic redundancy . Schnell Verlag, Quickborn 1962.
  • Net art words book . (Ed. Together with Antje Eske). bod, Norderstedt 2001.
  • The art of recognition. A Swiki conversation . (Co-authors: Antje Eske and Heide Salaverría) [1] . bod, Norderstedt 2006.

Catalog

  • Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff (eds.): Mutualité. Kurd Alsleben and Antje Eske. From computer drawing to net art affair . Kunsthalle Bremen , 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. HFBK Hamburg: HFBK mourns Kurd Alsleben. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .