Karl-Heinz Adler

Karl-Heinz Adler (20 June 1927 – 4 November 2018) was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and conceptual artist and has been described as "one of Germany’s foremost representatives of Concrete Art." He produced many public monuments and developed, with Friedrich Kracht, modular concrete decoration for hundreds of buildings across East, now eastern, Germany.[1][2]

Adler and Friedrich Kracht's sculpture in Dresden's Neustädter Markt (Dresden)[3]
Karl-Heinz Adler
Born(1927-06-20)20 June 1927
Adorf, Germany
Died4 November 2018(2018-11-04) (aged 91)
NationalityGerman
OccupationPainter

Other sources

Lybke, Gerd Harry, ed. (2017) Karl-Heinz Adler: Kunst im System – System in der Kunst, Spector Books https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tf364

References
  1. BBC (2018) An Alternative History of Art: Karl-Heinz Adler, Episode 3
  2. "Albertinum: Karl-Heinz Adler". albertinum.skd.museum. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  3. Lupfer, Gilbert, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.)(1997) Architectural guide to Dresden, Reimer (p.49)
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