ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Adolf Luther

April 1912	born in Uerdingen
from 1938	Studied law at the University of Bonn
1943	Doctorate to Dr. jur.
from 1942	dedication to painting
1957	abandonment of the profession as a judge in favor of art
since 1958	examination of the influences of light in its energetic-optical properties
since the beginning of the 1970s	work with laser beams
1972	integrations for the Olympic Games in Munich
1979	Professor title awarded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
1989	Establishment of the Adolf Luther Foundation
	Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
1990	Honorary citizenship of the city of Krefeld
September 1990	died in Krefeld
	Adolf Luther was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Artists' Association)

Adolf Luther is considered one of the main representatives of light kinetic art. Around 1960, working with the material glass, he found his way to the subject of light and dematerialization, or light as a design factor in space, which was to become decisive for his further work. In particular, he used concave mirrors to achieve light refraction and reflection effects. Luther's concave mirror objects reflect light and outlines of the surroundings and break up the reflections into different facets through their angular shape. The framework structure, which is permeable on all sides, intensifies the play with light. The immaterial becomes an integral part of the sculpture, whose constructive-stringent formalization has an abstracting effect on the spatial impression.
 

untitled, 1974
60 × 60 cm   →

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