Dieter Hacker Biography
Dieter Hacker is a well-known German painter, born on August 4, 1942 in the city of Augsburg. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he attended the same class as Ernst Geitlinger, Gerhard von Graevenitz and Klaus Staudt. The artist developed his work in several phases, including the 1960s in which he produced analytical and kinetic works that were associated with the New Tendencies movement, an international group of avant-garde artists that brought together Western European artists and Eastern, and South American, from the fields of Op Art, Kinetic Art and Light Art.
In the 1970s, he created increasingly political and socio-critical installations, while in the 1980s, he became famous as a painter in the context of Junge Wilde, an artistic collective that gained notoriety in the early 1980s in Germany and Austria with subjective, lighthearted and life-affirming images. His political art led him to radically distance himself from the art market, creating self-designed exhibitions that focused on the social relevance of art, the role of photography in everyday life, the art market and the utopias of constructivism .
From 1990 to October 2007, Hacker taught painting at the Berlin University of the Arts, and in 2008 he was admitted to the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design. He has worked for more than four decades, repeatedly confronting the utopias, demands and successes of constructivism in very different artistic forms, but also with its limitations and the dangers of formalizing its means of design.
