The Sixties
Art and Culture of the 1960s in Germany

Georg Karl Pfahler, Lothar Quinte, Charlotte Posenenske, Ulrike Rosenbach

Lothar Quinte, Thomas Lenk, Georg Karl Pfahler

Anton Stankowski

Erich Buchholz, Heimo Zobernig, Ben Willikens

Max Bill, Adolf Richard Fleischmann, Karl Gerstner, Joachim Albrecht, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Christian Röckenschuss, Lothar Quinte, Charlotte Posenenske

Karl-Heinz Adler, Hartmut Böhm, Siegfried Cremer

Joachim Albrecht, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Josef Albers

Kurt Sonderborg, Fred Thieler, Ulrike Rosenbach, Max Ackermann
© Tarek Musleh, Sindelfingen
The exhibition The Sixties presents major trends in reduced, abstract 1960s art with around 120 works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection. A principle focus is on the independent form of Minimalism developed in Germany by addressing abstraction and Zero avant-garde, constructive and concrete tendencies.
Artists
- Erwin Heerich
- Herbert Zangs
- Karl-Heinz Adler
- Yaacov Agam
- Josef Albers
- Joachim Albrecht
- Horst Antes
- Peter Benkert
- Bernd Berner
- Max Bill
- Erich Buchholz
- Hartmut Böhm
- Enrico Castellani
- Siegfried Cremer
- Carlos Cruz-Diez
- Dadamaino
- Hanne Darboven
- Adolf Fleischmann
- Karl Gerstner
- Rolf Glasmeier
- Hermann Glöckner
- HAP Grieshaber
- Otto Herbert Hajek
- Jan Henderikse
- Oskar Holweck
- Alfonso Hüppi
- Norbert Kricke
- Hans Kuhn
- Julio Le Parc
- Thomas Lenk
- Richard Paul Lohse
- Heinz Mack
- Almir da Silva Mavignier
- Christian Megert
- François Morellet
- Herbert Oehm
- Henk Peeters
- Georg Karl Pfahler
- Otto Piene
- Charlotte Posenenske
- Martial Raysse
- Peter Roehr
- Ulrike Rosenbach
- Fritz Ruoff
- Ulrich Rückriem
- Eckhard Schene
- Jan J. Schoonhoven
- K. R. H. Sonderborg
- Jesús Rafael Soto
- Ferdinand Spindel
- Klaus Staudt
- Helmut Stromsky
- Jean Tinguely
- Günther Uecker
- Timm Ulrichs
- Jef Verheyen
- Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Ben Willikens
- Fritz Winter
- Lambert Maria Wintersberger
- Gerhard von Graevenitz
Publications
Exhibitions
The Sixties
Art and Culture of the 1960s in Germany
Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II
Abstraction and Seriality, Zero, Concrete Tendencies and Sculpture as Action