Otto Nemitz

Before devoting himself to painting, Otto Nemitz pursued various occupations. Beginning in 1962, he turned to constructive-concrete art.

Initially, he executed his paintings with a restrained palette of black, white, and gray, which formed a kind of geometric grid. By the late 1960s, his non-representational compositions—now more intensely colored and featuring partly organic forms—became increasingly dynamic and fluid. With the Time Houses starting in 1995, Otto Nemitz found a form of expression that marked a consistent evolution of his work. The now three-dimensional sculptures, standing freely on pedestals in space, seemed to be the spatial realization of his drawings, paintings, echoes, and shadow images, transformed into objects. The boundary between the genres of painting and sculpture was dissolved.