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KP Brehmer * 1938 in Berlin, lives in Hamburg

(1938–1997). Graphic artist, painter, and filmmaker. When Brehmer was completing his apprenticeship as a reproduction technician, he was already producing his first etchings. He continued studying art graphics until 1963 in Krefeld and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as well as at the Atelier Hayter, Paris. From 1964 he ran a studio in Berlin. 1971–97: Taught at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, with a guest lectureship at the Hangzhou Academy of Art in the People’s Republic of Ch [...]

(1938–1997). Graphic artist, painter, and filmmaker. When Brehmer was completing his apprenticeship as a reproduction technician, he was already producing his first etchings. He continued studying art graphics until 1963 in Krefeld and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as well as at the Atelier Hayter, Paris. From 1964 he ran a studio in Berlin. 1971–97: Taught at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, with a guest lectureship at the Hangzhou Academy of Art in the People’s Republic of China in 1987/88. Numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including documenta 5 and 6; MoMA, New York; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. 1974: Together with Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Klaus Staeck, and others, he organized the Art into Society – Society into Art exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. 1998: Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum presented a comprehensive posthumous retrospective. 2011: CAAC in Seville presented KP Brehmer: A TestExtending beyond the Action, which will travel to Raven Row, London, in 2014.

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