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Biography
Dutch painter born in Germany. He studied Architecture and Interior Design at the Kunstgewerbeschule and Technische Hochschule in Hanover in 1919. After 1922, he was assistant in the studio of Ludwig Vierthaler and, in 1923-24, produced radical pictorial structures. Vordemberge-Gildewart quickly won critical attention, particularly after having taken part in the first Kestner-Gesellschaft exhibition in Hanover (1924). He met Schwitters, Arp and Theo van Doesburg, through whom he was accepted into the De Stijl group. In 1927, he joined Schwitters, Carl Buchheister, Rudolf Jahns and César Domela in forming Die Abstrakten Hanover group. He also co-founded Ring Neue Werbegestalter. In 1929, he had his first one-man show at the Povolozky Gallery in Paris and, a year later, he became involved with the Cercle et Carré group. He lived in Berlin, Zurich and Amsterdam and, in 1939, he took part in the Réalités Nouvelles exhibition, in Paris. In 1942, he was director of Edition Duwaer, Amsterdam and, in 1954, taught at the Ulm School of Design. In 1955 and 1959, he took part in Documenta 1 and 2 in Kassel. In 1974, he had a major retrospective at the Juda Gallery in London and, in 1985, at the Museu Wihelm-Hack in Ludwigshafen. His abstract compositions, reduced to the most elementary forms, made him one of the most important representatives of the Constructivist movement begun by Theo van Doesburg.
Exhibitions
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Bilder - Collagen - Zeichnungen Kunsthalle (Bremen), Germany 01-01-1972 ~ 31-08-1972
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Retrospective 1924-1962 Annely Juda, Fine Art, United Kingdom 15-09-1972 ~ 11-11-1972
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Bilder und Collagen, Werke von 1924-1962 Galerie Renée Ziegler (Zürich), Switzerland 23-11-1974 ~ 18-01-1975
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Bottrop) Quadrat Moderne Galerie, Germany 03-02-1980 ~ 03-03-1980
De Stijl Galerie Gmurzynska, Germany 01-06-1979 ~ 31-12-1979
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Hannover) Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel, Germany 13-04-1980 ~ 18-05-1980
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Munster) Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Germany 01-07-1975 ~ 31-12-1975
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Drawings and Collages 1920-1960 Annely Juda, Fine Art, United Kingdom 01-07-1986 ~ 31-12-1986
Die Abstrakten Hannover. Internationale Avantgarde 1927-1935 Sprengel Museum, Germany 01-08-1987 ~ 30-04-1988
André Kertész and Avant Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties Annely Juda, Fine Art, United Kingdom 25-02-1999 ~ 10-04-1999
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Essen) Museum Folkwang, Germany 01-01-1929 ~ 28-02-1929
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Berlin) Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Germany 01-05-1929 ~ 30-06-1929
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Dresden) Neues Rathaus Dresden, Germany 01-07-1929 ~ 30-09-1929
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Magdeburg) Ausstellungshalle am Adolf-Mittag-See, Germany 01-10-1929 ~ 31-12-1929
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (The Hague) Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Netherlands 01-01-1966 ~ 30-08-1966
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Mannheim) Städtische Kunsthalle, Germany 03-10-1970 ~ 15-11-1970
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Compositions and constructions Richard L. Feigen & Co., USA 01-01-1971 ~ 31-12-1971
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Ulm) Ulmer Museum, Germany 20-04-1975 ~ 01-06-1974
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Osnabruck) Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Austria 01-01-1979 ~ 31-12-1979
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Karlsruhe) Staatliche Kunsthalle (Karlsruhe), Germany 01-06-1980 ~ 31-12-1980
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart 1899-1962. Gemälde- Collagen- Werkskizzen -Bauplastik- Typographie Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany 09-06-1985 ~ 17-09-1985
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Cologne) Galerie Müller, Germany 01-01-1970 ~ 30-05-1970
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Hamburg) Galerie Fürneisen, Germany 01-06-1970 ~ 31-12-1970
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (Ludwigshafen am Rhein) Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany 01-06-1988 ~ 30-06-1988
The Artist and the Photograph, 2nd Triennale of Photography Israel Museum, Israel 01-01-1976 ~ 31-12-1976
Bibliography
André Kertész and Avant Garde Photography of the Twenties and Thirties, 1999 Published by Annely Judda Fine Art
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
De Stijl, 1979 Published by Galerie Gmurzynska
Die Abstrakten Hannover. Internationale Avantgarde 1927-35, 1987 Published by Sprengel Museum
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Retrospective 1924-1962, 1972 Published by Annely Judda Fine Art
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1971 Published by M. DuMont Schauberg ISBN 1299874479
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