Kilian Breier began exploring the graphic potential of the visible with his camera in the early 1950s. In increasingly systematic series of pictures and soon also manipulative interventions, he showed how, in the interplay of light and natural form, structural conditions can be isolated photographically and scrutinised for their pictorial qualities. Inspired by the basic teachings of Oskar Holweck, Breier then quickly moved on to creating such structures experimentally by using light as a signifying medium in the darkroom, often without the use of objects. The photograms and luminograms he created in this way brought him into the circle of the Zero Movement in the early 1960s and later to Gottfried Jäger's Generative Photography. The lecture traces Breier's development from his search for the creative potential of natural light to the systematic artistic use of light on photographic and photochemical materials to create images and places his work in the context of the art of his time.

The event will be in German.