Beke László (szerk.): Instruktiv + Inter + Konkret. Művészet Malom Szentendre, 21. November - 26. Januar 2015 (Sankt Augustin, 2014)
3. Jürgen Blum Kwiatkowsi
3.4 Vita Jürgen Blum Kwiatkowski Gerhard Jürgen Blum Kwiatkowski born1930 in Elblang, Poland. He is a German artist who lived in Poland until 1970. He is a representative of the Concrete and Intelligible Art and founder, director and initiator of various museums, exhibitions and projects. 1952 - 1957: he studied philosophy of art constructive craft. After seven years he became a professor at the academy in 1956. 1961 - 1974 Co-foundation of the Club Czerwona Oberza (Young Intelligence) and the Laboratory of Art Gallery EL Elblag 1974: Emigration to the German Federal Republic. 1987: He developed and realized a concept for connecting painting schools with exhibition rooms. In cooperation with the adult education centres in Fulda, Bad Hersfeld, Eschwege, Bad Salzschlirf and Kleinsassen “Art Stations” are founded. Two additional “Art Stations” were founded also in the Cornberg Monastery and the Rittershain Castle. 1979: The Art Station Kleinsassen became a great importance. Exhibitions, an “Annual Week of Art” various events, symposiums and lectures were organizes there. One of these projects was the “Rhön Street of Art” where sculptures, have been installed in public space. In Kleinsassen Blum- Kwiatkowski founded the “Free Academy of Art”, which was later moved to the Museum Modern Art Hünfeld. 1988: He opened the Museum “Signs of Time” and the project gallery “New Space” where et. al. artists of the former German Democratic Republic exhibited. 1990: Se settled in Hünfeld and founded the museum Modern Art together with the Painting Scholl on the premises of a former gasworks. 1993: He founded the “Forum Concrete Art” in Erfurt and the “Museum for Reductive Art” in Swierdaw-Zdroj, Poland. 1997: He began with the realisation of the project “The Open Book” in Hünfeld. Text of Concrete Poetry (such as by Eugen Gomringer) have been painted on walls of buildings, which have been provided by their owners. By now the “Open Book” has about 125 “pages” a catalogue illustrating this project was published in September 2007. 48
