Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (November 17, 1899,

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– December 19, 1962,

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) was a German Neo-plasticist (De Stijl) painter. He was one of the first painters to work for his entire career within an abstract style.

Life

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in

, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College,

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. In 1924 he formed the abstract art group Gruppe K in Hanover with Hans Nitzschke and joined

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. After meeting

Theo van Doesburg Theo van Doesburg (, 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nell ...

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, Constructivism (art), constructivism, surrealism ...

and Hans Arp, he became a member of

De Stijl ''De Stijl'' (; ), Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a more narrow sense, the term ''De Stijl'' is used to refer to a body ...

in 1925. Together with

and Carl Buchheister he formed the 'Abstrakten Hannover' group in 1927. He was a member of a number of other artistic groups including: the

Cercle et Carré Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) was a group of abstract artists in Paris, founded 1929 by Joaquín Torres García and Michel Seuphor. The group published a journal with the same name. In 1930 they organised an exhibition in Paris showing 130 ...

, 1930,

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and was a founding member of Abstraction-Création (1931), also in Paris. In 1937, in Munich, the Nazi regime exposed his works in the infamous

Degenerate Art Degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, ...

exhibition. Most of his works were confiscated and he was forced to leave Germany for the

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Work

His works include:- *1925, Composition No. 15 - 1925 *1936, Composition No. 104 - 1936 *1946, Composition No. 154, oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm *1946, Untitled (C8), collage, paper and plastic on paper, 28.5 x 23.5 cm *c.1947, Untitled, collage on paper, 27.5 x 22.3 cm *1953, Composition No. 194, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm *1959/60, Composition No 212, oil on canvas, 105 x 80 cm

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Photographic portrait of Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Photographic portrait of Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart as an older manGerman initiative for the promotion of Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, resident in Osnabrück.
20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 1899 births 1962 deaths Abstract painters Artists from Osnabrück {{Germany-painter-stub

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