Hein Gravenhorst

BIOGRAPHY

Hein Gravenhorst (born 1937 in Berlin) is a German artist and photographer. Gravenhorst studied photography from 1953 to 1955, graphic design and industrial design from 1955 to 1957, and film technology from 1958 to 1960 in Berlin and Munich. Since 1970, he has been a lecturer in photography at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Gravenhorst is a representative of Concrete Photography and, together with Gottfried Jäger, is one of the founders of Generative Photography. He began to explore the philosophical possibilities and technical means of computers in his work in 1965 and participated in early exhibitions of computer art. In 1968, he exhibited his work in the exhibition Generative Photography at the Bielefelder Kunsthaus, which became the eponymous name of a new art genre.

His photographic work is characterized by the technical possibilities of computers that emerged in the 1960s. The works in the series Photomechanical Transformations and Rotational Transformations, created during that time, are circular arrangements of multiply exposed elements.

His works are represented in numerous national and international museums, including the Peter C. Ruppert Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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