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Glarner Landesbibliothek
Glarner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fritz Glarner (1899–1972), Swiss-American painter * Jean Glarner (born 1940), Swiss field hockey player * Stefan Glarner (born 1987), Swiss footballer See also * Garner (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Glarner
Fritz Glarner (July 20, 1899 in Zurich – September 18, 1972 in Locarno) was a Switzerland, Swiss-American Painting, painter. Glarner was a leading proponent of so-called Concrete Art, an artists' movement whose roots lead back to the painters of De Stijl and the principles of the Bauhaus. He was a disciple of Piet Mondrian, strongly influenced by Mondrian's theories of "dynamic symmetry." As he developed as an artist, his works began to be increasingly influenced by Mondrian's Neoplastic theory. His leaning toward nonrepresentational art had begun as early as 1929 in Paris, where he was a member of the Abstraction-Création group. Glarner took up Mondrian's motif of arranging simplified colors and forms on an architectural pattern. Glarner introduced a diagonal into the strict horizontal and vertical geometric aesthetic of Mondrian, creating new, yet equally systematic principles of composition that he termed "relational painting." Like Mondrian, Glarner limited his color ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |