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Photo: Daniela Wolf
Manfred Kuttner (1937-2007) is one of the co-founders of Capitalist Realism. Together with his artist friends and fellow students Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, he organized the legendary Demonstrative Exhibition in 1963 on Kaiserstrasse in Düsseldorf. This exhibition can be considered the germinal stage of so-called German Pop Art and the worldwide success of Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and the later gallerist Konrad Fischer. In 1967, Manfred Kuttner switched to advertising graphics, ending his artistic career before it had truly begun. Kuttner's abstract, geometrically structured paintings and neon-colored objects from the early 1960s move ambivalently between such diverse art movements as Op, Pop, Zero, Art Informel, and Nouveau Réalisme. His use of the then-brand-new fluorescent poster paints creates a shimmering surface and renders all parameters of categorization obsolete.
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