Richard Paul Lohse
Paintings and graphics
06 November - 06 December 1970
“Now managing director Reiner Kallhardt can present the first major retrospective on the work of the important Swiss Constructivist Richard Paul Lohse and thus the first Lohse exhibition ever in Germany. Six art institutes have joined forces for this exhibition. Munich is the second station of the show after Bern.”
(Nürnberger Nachrichten, November 1970)
“With the great ‘come-back’ of the Constructivists of the twenties, which has come about as if by itself through the related contemporary styles from Op-art to Conceptual Art, the life's work of Richard Paul Lohse, now sixty-eight years old and Swiss, has also come back into the focus of current art discourse-artists such as Malevich and Tatlin to have taken up. A walk through the exhibition in Munich's Galeriestraße reveals the unity of this life's work and the consistency with which Lohse has subjected colour and form to the law of series and modulation. [...] He uses colour according to a precisely graduated colour catalogue within the framework of separate modulation. And his pictorial structures, which have exclusively rectangular surfaces, are developed according to precise mathematical formulae, in which one size is assumed in each case, usually a square.”
(Deutsche Tagespost Würzburg, November 1970)
Poster: Richard Paul Lohse, Kunsthalle Bern, 1970.