About the Artist Lothar Fischer

Lothar Fischer (1933–2004) was a German sculptor and the only sculptor in the Munich artists’ group SPUR, which he co-founded in 1958. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich—where he studied under Heinrich Kirchner from 1953 onward—he developed his works from an informal impulse. At the core of his oeuvre is the human figure, particularly the female figure, which he repeatedly reinterpreted in highly reduced forms. From 1975 to 1997, Fischer taught as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In recognition of his oeuvre, the Museum Lothar Fischer was established in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.