Lothar Fisher Biography
Lothar Fisher (1933 - 2004) studied from 1952 at the Kunstakademie Munich, where he concentrated on sculpture after only one year. When Fischer exhibited informal works with Prem, Sturm and Zimmer at the Alter Botanischer Garten in Munich, he unleashed a storm of indignation among art enthusiasts and critics. But this did not prevent him from pursuing his ideas in an even closer collaboration with the three artists he was friends with: the group "Spur" was founded. Fischer was the only sculptor among the members of "Spur" and developed his objects, analogous to painters, from an informal impetus. He showed highly developed technical skills, which he owed not least to the intensive studies of his role models, e.g. Marini or Stadler. The first half of the 1960s is characterized by seemingly playful works such as multicolored elves, ships for knights and architectural fantasies. After a brief and not very productive membership in the "Geflecht" group, in 1968 Fischer became temporarily interested in elements of pop-art, which had an effect on Fischer's work in the form of enormous sculptures of oversized toothpaste tubes. In 1969 Fischer invented the so-called "Hüllenplastiken", a system of multiple enclosures that also integrated the room. From 1975 to 1997 Fischer held a professorship at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. The artist, who died in 2004, received numerous awards, among others, the Schwabing art prize in 1967, the "Förderpreis für Bildhauerei" of the city of Munich in 1971 and the Rhineland-Palatinate art prize in 1990 His works are exhibited in public places and in many German museum collections.
