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Peter Roehr

Object artist (male), conceptual artist (male) and photographer

Born
1944 in Lauenburg (Pomerania)
Died
1968 in Frankfurt am Main

6 Works by Peter Roehr

Video

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    Kunst nach 1945: Peter Roehr
    In unserer Filmreihe stellen wir Ihnen regelmäßig Werke aus der Sammlung „Kunst nach 1945" vor. In diesem Film spricht der Sammler und Galerist Paul Maenz über das 1966 entstandene Werk „Schwarze Tafeln" von Peter Roehr. Maenz verband mit dem Frankfurter Künstler bis zu dessen frühem Tod eine enge Freundschaft, er war ein wichtiger Förderer Peter Roehrs und verwaltet dessen Nachlass. Der Film behandelt die „Schwarzen Tafeln" und vermittelt zugleich einen Eindruck von der Künstlerpersönlichkeit Roehrs. http://www.staedelmuseum.de/#youtube

Biography

Peter Roehr was born in Lauenburg in 1944. From 1959 to 1962 he trained as a maker of neon signage in Frankfurt am Main. He then attended the school of arts and crafts, the Werkkunstschule, in Wiesbaden. He had his first solo show at Adam Seide’s in Frankfurt in 1965. In 1968 Roehr died of cancer in Frankfurt at the age of twenty-three, but from his career of six years he left an oeuvre of nearly 600 works, in which he consistently engaged with the principles of alignment and repetition. He often relied on everyday found materials, but also worked with films, photographs and typography.

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Works associated with Peter Roehr