Ulrich ERBEN
1940, Germany

Ulrich Erben biography:

The artist born in Düsseldorf studied from 1958 to 1965 in Hamburg and Urbino primarily graphical techniques and took some additional semester in painting at the art academies in Venice and Berlin. His early work was affected by objectivity, but towards the end of the 1960s Erben finds his way to concrete painting with monochrome white pictures. He became well-known by the exhibition "Geplante Malerei" (planned painting), which took place in 1974 in the Westphalian Art Association, and by Erben’s participation in documenta 6 in 1977. After the first white paintings the artist turns to chromatic colors again, which he used pure and unbroken in order to address their character. In 1980 Erben receives a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster, which he held until 2005. The artist lives and works in Bagnoregio, near Rome and in Düsseldorf

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