Hilmar Jiří *1937

Untitled, 1974

layered tracing paper, varnish, canvas fixed on board, 80 × 80 cm, signed Hilmar Jiří 74 on the reverse

Jiří Hilmar is one of the prominent representatives of the Czech constructive oriented art, which since the 1960s has been looking for possibilities and ways of expressing a new positive relationship to the world of technology and civilization. From the 1970s onwards, Hilmar's interest turned to nature and the need to preserve and conserve it. Jiří Hilmar graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Interior Design in Prague under Professor Richard Pípal from 1952 to 1956. At the end of the 1960s he graduated from the school of architecture in Prague. He went into exile in Germany, where the second stage of his work was created. He worked in the groups Gerade, Künstler Siedlung Halfmannshof Gelsenkirchen, Other Geometry, Czech Exile (Germany), Club of Concretists and Exil.