369 - Heimrad Prem, Villages, 2 felt-tip pen drawings from 1973 and 1975

Heimrad Prem, Villages, 2 felt-tip pen drawings from 1973 and 1975 Heimrad Prem, 1934 Roding - 1978 Munich, view of houses in red, blue and black, felt-tip pen on paper, 20.8 x 15 cm, signed, dated (19)73, mounted on card at the top corners, mounted with passepartout; and ‘Stone Houses in a Landscape’, felt-tip pen on paper, 21.5 x 16 cm, mounted on card at the top corners, mounted with passepartout About the artist: 1952-57: studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Toni Stadler and sculpture at the University of the Arts in Berlin under Ernst Schumacher; in 1957, the ‘SPUR’ group was founded by the painters HP Zimmer, Helmut Sturm and Heimrad Prem, as well as the sculptor Lothar Fischer; in 1958, the first SPUR manifesto and the SPUR portfolio were published; from 1959 to 1962, a member of ‘SPUR’ within the ‘Situationist International’, a cultural-political movement comprising architects, filmmakers, artists and writers; joint projects between the ‘SPUR’ group and the Munich-based artists’ group ‘Wir’ were followed by a merger under the name ‘Geflecht’, which lasted until 1968; in 1963, three collaborative works were produced in succession, in which Prem was involved: the SPUR building for the Paris Biennale, the mural “Canal Crescendo” at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (then under the artistic direction of Paolo Marinotti) and the painting of a country house near Munich; in 1964, he took part in documenta III in Kassel