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Jo Niemeyer’s practice brings together geometric composition and the study of nature. A German artist born in 1946 in Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, he explores space, time, distances and proportions through an approach described as scientific. After three years of studying photography and graphic arts, he made his first painting composed of geometric forms in 1966. He then studied industrial design for one year, beginning in 1967, at the Atheneum in Finland. Before devoting himself to painting, he experimented with photography, particularly architectural photography; in 1970, he left his work as a professional photographer to become an independent artist.
His minimalist geometric compositions draw on the «proportio divina». In his early paintings, he used different colours, then gradually favoured red, blue and yellow, combined with black and white. The source links the gradual abandonment of green to the place he gives to nature in his work. This research takes on a landscape dimension with «20 steps around the world», a project conceived in 1989 and inaugurated in 1997 in Ropinsalmi, Finland. The route around the Earth is divided into twenty segments according to a logarithmic progression linked to the golden ratio; twenty hardened-steel elements mark its stages.
In the 1980s, at Matti Kujasalo’s request, Niemeyer taught printing techniques in the Department of Graphic Arts. A selection of exhibitions includes «Experiment konkret 2005» at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, followed in 2008 by «Pure Abstract Art» at the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort and «Hommage à Vordemberge-Gildewart» at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück; a presentation was also devoted to him at the Arithmeum in Bonn in 2009. He lives and works between Germany, France and Finland.
This profile brings together identity references for Jo Niemeyer and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Germann · Kornfeld · Lempertz · Zofingen
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Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood
Niesi
Acrylique sur toile montée sur bois
Catalogue period : 2023-11-25
Published result : 1600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600
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Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Ohne Titel
Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 10540 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Ohne Titel
Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Auction date : 2017-12-02
Published result : 8680 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Ohne Titel
Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holz
Auction date : 2016-12-03
Published result : 4340 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Acrylic on canvas, on wood.
Ohne Titel
Acryl auf Leinwand, auf Holz.
Catalogue period : 2006-11-21
Published result : 3800 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 3000–3500
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Date to be documented
Published result : 430 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
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Ohne Titel (Werknummer 9007)
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 5000
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"LATHI" A
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
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Spirale V6
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Öl auf Leinwand, auf Hartfaserplatte.
Date to be documented
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Diptychon. Öl auf Leinwand, auf Holz aufgezogen.
Date to be documented
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Acryl auf Leinwand, über Holzkasten.
Ohne Titel, 1983
Acryl auf Leinwand, über Holzkasten.
Date to be documented
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Acryl auf Leinwand auf Holzkonstruktion montiert.
Date to be documented
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Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood
Copie du tableau original « Peera »
Acrylique sur toile montée sur bois
Copie du tableau original « Peera »
Catalogue period : 2023-11-25
Copy of the original painting “Peera”
Published result : 1400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400
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