Eugen Gomringer
Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025) was a Bolivian-born Swiss concrete poet. He was head of the Institut für Konstruktive Kunst und Konkrete Poesie (IKKP) in Rehau, Germany. Between 1977 and 1990, he was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf.
Eugen Gomringer
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- Born
- 1925.
- Died
- 2025.
- Nationality
- Switzerland and Bolivia.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, university teacher, literary critic, art critic, art historian, graphic artist and designer.
- Movements
- concrete poetry.
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Gomringer wrote in German, Spanish, French, and English.
Eugen Gomringer was born in Cachuela Esperanza, Bolivia on 20 January 1925. He moved to Switzerland, the country his father was from, in the 1940s where he studied artistic and literary history at the University of Bern. His first volume of poetry, "konstellationen constellations constelaciones," was published in 1953. He co-published Edwin Morgan's first full collection of concrete poetry, Starryveldt, in 1965. In 1981 Gomringer sold his private art collection to the City of Ingolstadt, which subsequently in 1992 opened the Museum of Concrete Art. From 1977 to 1990, he taught as a professor of aesthetic theory in Düsseldorf. His most famous poem "Avenidas" was displayed at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin until it was taken down due to people finding it discriminatory to women. It was moved to a building wall in Rehau in 2018. In January 2025, Gomringer turned 100. The city of Rehau opened an exhibition featuring 100 of his various works. He died in Bamberg on 21 August 2025. The German and Swiss poet and writer Nora Gomringer is his daughter.
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Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025) was a writer, poet, art historian, librettist, graphic artist, designer, teacher, publisher, lyricist, collector, sculptor and theorist. The birth of Eugen Gomringer is recorded on 20 January 1925, and the death on 21 August 2025. The birthplace of Eugen Gomringer is recorded as Cachuela Esperanza by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, as Cachuela Esperenza (Bolivie) by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and as Bolivia by the Getty Union List of Artist Names. Eugen Gomringer died in Bamberg, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Ulm, Düsseldorf and Rehau are recorded as places of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Steiner, Wendy. Res Poetica: The Problematics of the Concrete Program. New Literary History. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 12. 3. 529–545. 1981. 10.2307/469028.
- 2.Hernández, I. Gomringer, Eugen (1925-VVVV). MCN Biografías.
- 3.Thomas, Greg. Burlington Contemporary - Articles. contemporary.burlington.org.uk. 1 June 2022.
- 4.Museum Kunstsammlung. Museum für Konkrete Kunst.
- 5.Konkrete Poesie: Eugen Gomringer: 100 Exponate zum 100. Geburtstag. Die Zeit. dpa. 20 January 2025. 0044-2070.
- 6.Lyriker: Dichter Eugen Gomringer mit 100 Jahren gestorben
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