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Manfred Mohr (*1938, Pforzheim) is one of the first artists world-wide to use computers to produce pictures.

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Manfred Mohr (*1938, Pforzheim) is one of the first artists world-wide to use computers to produce pictures. After his training as a goldsmith, his path led him via Barcelona to Paris to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Inspired by the experiments of the composer Pierre Barbaud, Mohr taught himself programming in 1969. His first drawings were calculated on the CAE 510 computer at the Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes. At the end of 1969, he gained access to the Paris Météorologie nationale, where he was allowed to use a CDC 6400 computer.
In April 1970 the computer-generated drawings were shown to the public for the first time: in the context of the exhibition accompanying the »Computer Graphics 70« conference at Brunel University in Uxbridge. In May 1971 he had a solo exhibition at the Musée d'Art moderne le la Ville de Paris. The exhibition entitled »Computer Graphics. Une ésthetique programmée« is the first exhibition of computer-generated images in France. In 1981 Mohr moved to New York.

His works are represented in numerous collections, including the collection o

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1957-1961Student at the School of Art and Crafts (gold- and silversmith, painting), in Pforzheim, Germany1959Co-founder of a jazz club in a former butcher’s cellar in Pforzheim; he plays tenor saxophone and oboe for Hard-Bop-Group and Jazzgroup 601960Creative work strongly influenced by Art Informel (action paintings)1961Receives school prize (for art) of the City of Pforzheim1962Decides exclusively to use only black and white in his pictures; develops a geometric pictorial language1963-1983Moves to Paris, where he has his own studio1965Student at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris (lithography).
His further geometric experiments lead him to Hard Edge painting which now defines his pictorial world1968First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris.
He systematizes the image contents1969First drawings with a computer. Learns programming and writes his first computer program: production of the first plotter drawing at the Meteorological Institute of Paris (Computing Center at Météorologie Nationale in Par

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Pioneer Work: Mohr

Manfred Mohr taught himself how to write programs at the end of the 1960s. He had an artistic education and lived as a painter and jazz musician in Paris at that time.
Influenced by Max Bense, Mohr was searching the rationality in art when he discovered the computer as an artistic tool.
In 1969 he created his first computer art and is working ever since with the computer. He was the first computer artist to bring his generative art to a museum. In 1971 he had a solo exhibition at the ARC - Mus�e d'Art Moderne in Paris: Computer Graphics "Une Esth�tique Programm�e".

»Pioneer Work: Manfred Mohr« presents some of his early algorithmic experiments, generated between 1969 and 1973, and also graphics from other periods. The work titles correspond with the number of the program used. The programs developed by Mohr are chronologically numbered and the works are in general marked with additional letters according to the phase or variation of the program.

An overview of the different work stages of the artist as well as a detailed biography and