SPUR
SPUR is the name of an avant-garde group of postwar German artists. The SPUR group included the artists Lothar Fischer (1933-2004), Heimrad Prem (1934-1978), H. P. Zimmer (1936-1992) and Helmut Sturm (1932-2008). The four artists met at the Munich Academy of Fine Art when they were all students. In 1957 they founded SPUR, meaning "track" which existed until 1965. During that time the artists published seven issues of a journal. The most famous was No. 6, "Spur im Exil", which reached an edition of 1500 and was lavishly illustrated. The styles that exerted a formative influence on the SPUR artists were Abstract Expressionism, Tachism and Informel. However, those artists were not concerned solely with art in general and painting in particular but also with social and political issues. One of the most controversial blasphemy trials held in the Federal Republic of Germany saw Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and H. P. Zimmer as well as Dieter Kunzelmann charged with disseminating indecent writings and they were given prison sentences ranging from five months to five months and two weeks but appealed and were subsequently put on probation. An appeal to the highest constitutional court was rejected in 1975.
Prem, Heimrad
Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 989
Oil on canvas 1973
9,000 EUR / 11,880 $
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Prem, Heimrad
Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 990
Oil on canvas 1974
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Zimmer
Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 733
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Oil on canvas 1986
9,000 EUR / 11,880 $
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Zimmer
Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 732
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Oil on canvas 1987
8,000 EUR / 10,560 $
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Sturm, Helmut
Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 1067
Gouache 1982
2,000 EUR / 2,640 $
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Sturm, Helmut
Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 1068
Gouache 1983
2,000 EUR / 2,640 $
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