Edmund Kesting - Artist Info

About Edmund Kesting

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    Edmund Kesting (1892-1970)

    He was a master student of Richard Müller and Otto Gußmann. He came in close contact with avant-garde artists such as Kurt Schwitters, László Moholy -Nagy , El Lissitzky and Alexander Archipenko and in 1923 hehad his first solo exhibition at the gallery " Der Sturm". That same year, the inflation that began in Germany in 1914 reached its climax. Devalued banknotes and tokens were now taken for Kesting's rare collages . His constructivist works were noticed in the characteristic style of the time: "Designing, Building, forming, from mind, hand, matter tolight, color, form, in an organic, structural organism, add, bind, include the static-dynamic function, ...

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