- Birthday
- 1935-10-20
- Deathday
- 2017-06-18
- Place of Birth
- Herford, Germany
Hans Breder
DirectingBiography
Like Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, for Hans Breder the task of art, as a kind of thought, was spiritual. His work articulates and evokes an ineffable power beyond reason and unreason. Against the monumental materialism of Western culture over the last six decades, Breder's sensibility was expressed in and between painting, sculpture, photography, music, installation, video and film--each expression an invitation to subversive liminality and momentary transcendence. Breder's work dissolves boundaries and manipulates perception, sometimes enticing, sometimes shocking the observer to an exp...