Editing Manfred Mohr

{{Short description|German artist (b.1938)}}
[[File:Manfred Mohr Portrait 2019.jpg|thumb|Manfred Mohr posing in front of his work (2019)]]
[[File:Manfred Mohr P-777 D.jpg|thumb|Piece "P-777_D" (2002/04). LCD Screen and PC]]
'''Manfred Mohr''' (born June 8, 1938 in [[Pforzheim]]/[[Germany]]) is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of [[digital art]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n3/contributions/truckenbrod.html |title=Pioneering Computer Artists, Siggraph 1998 |access-date=2007-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017160616/http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n3/contributions/truckenbrod.html |archive-date=2016-10-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has lived and worked in New York since 1981.

==Life and career==
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Mohr started his career as an [[action painting|action painter]] and [[jazz musician]]. He began using a computer in 1969 because of a growing interest in creating [[algorithmic art]]. He lived in [[Barcelona]] in 1962 and in [[Paris]] between 1963 and 1983.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

His early [[computer art|computer works]] are algorithmic and based on his former drawings with a strong attitude on rhythm and repetition. In 1990 he was awarded the [[Prix Ars Electronica]] (Golden Nica) at [[Ars Electronica|the Ars Electronica]] festival in [[Linz]], [[Austria]]. He maintained an art studio in [[Paris]] from 1963 to 1983. Mohr attended Kunst + Werkschule in [[Pforzheim]] and [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1968 he co-founded the seminar "Art et Informatique" at the [[University of Vincennes]] and in May 1971 had a solo exhibit at  ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bibliothequedesartsdecoratifs.com/cgi-bin/visu.pl?75505 |title=Manfred Mohr computer graphic : une esthétique progammée A-R-C- Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1971 |access-date=2009-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923184739/http://www.bibliothequedesartsdecoratifs.com/cgi-bin/visu.pl?75505 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> That exhibition has become known historically as the first [[solo exhibition|solo show]] in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital computer.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Recent solo exhibitions of his work include [[Art Basel]] "Art Features" with [[bitforms gallery]] in [[Basel]],<ref>[https://archive.today/20130805023050/http://www.artbasel-online.com/index.php5?id=311476&compact=0&path=Galleries&Action=showCompany Manfred Mohr Featured Artist ArtBasel | Basel]</ref> DAM Gallery in [[Berlin]], Mueller-Roth Gallery in [[Stuttgart]], Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in [[London]], bitforms gallery in [[New York City]], Galerie Charlot in [[Paris]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsarttoday.tv/expo/galerie-charlot-manfred-mohr/|title = Galerie Charlot - Manfred Mohr}}</ref> the Museum of Kulturspeicher in [[Würzburg]], and Galerie Wack in [[Kaiserslautern]].

Major retrospectives of his work include [[ZKM]] | Media Museum  in Karlsruhe in 2013,<ref>[https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2013/06/the-algorithm-of-manfred-mohr Manfred Mohr exposition ZKM, Karlsruhe]</ref> the [[Kunsthalle Bremen|Kunsthalle in Bremen]] in 2007, Joseph Albers Museum in [[Bottrop|Bottrop, Germany]] in 1998, and the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in [[Ludwigshafen am Rhein|Ludwigshafen, Germany]] in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Mohr's work is collected by the [[Centre Pompidou]] in Paris, the Joseph Albers Museum, the [[Museum Ludwig|Ludwig Museum]] in [[Cologne]], the Museum for Concret Art in [[Ingolstadt]], the [[Kunstmuseum Stuttgart]], [[Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal|Musee d’Art Contemporain]] and [[Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal|Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal]], the [[Stedelijk Museum]] in Amsterdam, [[Musée de l'Élysée]] in Switzerland, and many others. Mohr has had numerous solo exhibitions in both museums and galleries in New York, [[Zürich]], [[Cologne]], Paris, Amsterdam, [[Stuttgart]], Berlin, [[Montreal]], [[São Paulo]], and [[Seoul]]. Additionally, he has participated in group exhibitions at the [[Leo Castelli]] Gallery and at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Mohr has received many awards including the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art,<ref>[http://www.siggraph.org/discover/news/acm-siggraph-announces-award-recipients-2013 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award]</ref> 2006 (ddaa) Digital Art Award Cologne/Berlin,<ref>[http://www.ddaa-online.de/manfred-mohr-52 ddaa - d.velop digital art award, 2006]</ref> a fellowship from [[New York Foundation for the Arts]] in 1997, the 1990 [[Prix Ars Electronica|Golden Nica]]<ref>[http://archive.aec.at/#22794 Arts Electronica, Golden Nica, Computer Graphics, 1990]</ref>  from [[Ars Electronica]] in Linz, the 1990 Camille Graeser Prize <ref>[http://www.camille-graeser-stiftung.ch/body_3.html Camill Graeser Stiftung, 1990]</ref> in [[Zürich]], and the 1973 Ljubljana Print Biennial. In 1994, the first comprehensive monograph on his work was published by Waser-Verlag in [[Zürich]].<ref>Lieser, Wolf. ''Digital Art''. Langenscheidt: h.f. ullmann. 2009 pp.163-167</ref>

==Studies, exhibitions, and prizes==
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* 1957 - Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting); jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe)
* 1960 - [[Action painting]]
* 1961 - Received school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim
* 1962 - Began the exclusive use of black and white as a means of visual and aesthetic expression
* 1965 - Studied [[lithography]] at the [[Ecole des Beaux Arts]], Paris; geometric experiments led to hard edge painting
* 1968 - First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris; systematization of the picture content
* 1969 - Publication of the visual book ''Artificiata I''. First drawings with a computer.
* 1971 - First one-man show of computer generated digital art in a museum, ARC, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris / France
* 1972 - Sequential computer drawings were introduced; began to work on fixed structures: the cube
* 1973 - Received awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in [[Ljubljana]]
* 1977 - Began to work with the 4-D [[hypercube]] and graph-theory
* 1980 - Workphase: divisibility, dissection of cube
* 1982 - Quasi-organic growth programs on the cube
* 1987 - First retrospective exhibition, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; renewed work on the 4-D hypercube; four-dimensional rotation as generator of signs
* 1989 - Extended work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube. Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs
* 1990 - Received the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica in Linz and the Camille Graeser Prize in Zürich
* 1991 - Workphase: laserglyphs, diagonal paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser
* 1994 - The first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich
* 1997 - Was elected a member of the [[American Abstract Artists]]; received an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts
* 1998 - Started to use color (after using black and white for more than three decades) to show the complexity of the work through differentiation
* 2002 - Designed and built small PCs to run his program "space.color" and since 2004 also the program "subsets". The resulting images were visualized on LCD flat panels in a slow, non-repetitive motion.
* 2006 - Received the [ddaa] Digital Art Award (for digital pioneering- and original geometric research), Köl
* 2013 - Received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
* 2013 - Honored with retrospective show The Algorithm of Manfred Mohr, 1963-now at ZKM - Media Museum, Karlsruhe
* 2013 - Chosen as Featured Artist in a solo show at ArtBasel/Basel with bitforms gallery

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Manfred Mohr P-306-O.jpg|Piece "P-306-O" (1980/82). Acryl/ Canvas/ Wood/ 4 parts
Manfred Mohr P-792 32.jpg|Piece "P-792_32" (2000-2007). Pigment ink on Canvas/ Wood
Manfred Mohr P1640 1322.jpg|Piece "P1640_1322" (2014). Pigment ink on Canvas
Manfred Mohr P1611 5220.jpg|Piece "P1611_5220" (2012/13). Pigment ink on Canvas
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.emohr.com/ Artist's website]
*[http://www.ddaa-online.de/manfred-mohr-52 The ddaa prize winner 2006]
*[http://archive.aec.at/#22794 Winner Prix Ars Electronica 1990 - Golden Nica, computer graphics, Manfred Mohr]
*[http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/Spotlight/MMohr/ Show at "Truly Virtual Web Art Museum" of Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya)]
*[http://kunstforum.twoday.net/stories/4304512/ Ein radikaler Rationalist - Manfred Mohr im Kunstforum]
*[http://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/Ausstellungen/Rueckblick/#top Kunsthalle Bremen - Manfred Mohr - broken symmetry]
*[http://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/upload/Presse/Texte/pm_mohr_.pdf Kunstahalle Bremen Manfred Mohr - broken symmetry - press release]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161017160616/http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n3/contributions/truckenbrod.html Siggraph 1998 - Pioneering Artists]
*[http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=2002 New York Foundation of the Arts -  Manfred Mohr Artist's Fellowship 1997]
*[http://www.zeit.de/1996/42/mohr.txt.19961011.xml?from=rss Die Zeit 1996 - Manfred Mohr ist ein Purist unter den Computerkünstlern by Manfred Dworschak]
* [http://emohr.com (complete reference homepage)]
* [https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?q=manfred%20mohr&id_person=A21694 List of works held by the Victoria and Albert Museum]
* {{cite web |publisher= [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
 |url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/computer-art-artworks-in-detail/
 |title= Manfred Mohr,'P-62 (floating points)', 1970 and 'P-176', 1975 - in detail
 |work= Prints & Books
 |accessdate= 2011-03-24}}
*Manfred Mohr, Waser Verlag Zürich, 1992, {{ISBN|3-908080-39-8}}

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