Saturday, May 29, 2010

Untitled, Artist's Proof #3...

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Untitled
(Artists Proof #3)
Peter Schmidt
Offset Lithograph
1974
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Untitled, Head #4...

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Untitled
Head #4
Peter Schmidt
Collage, over printed
1965-68
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Autobiographical "Monoprint" XIII...

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"Monoprint(Lisson)" XIII
Peter Schmidt
Edition of 120, each unique
Collage, over printed
1968
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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From the Autobiographical Monoprint series,
originally exhibited in 1968 at the Lisson Gallery, London
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"The Thoughts...", May 28, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"
Peter Schmidt
Web version
2010
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Before "Oblique Strategies"(1975),
there was "The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"(1970).
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Bonner Straße 1A, Berlin...

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Childhood Home of Peter Schmidt
Bonner Straße 1A, Berlin, Germany
(Photographed by Valentine Schmidt, April 2010)
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"I haven`t seen Bonner Straße very recently, but it was mercifully not
destroyed in the war, and looked probably much as it did in Peter' s
childhood when I was last there some years ago. I'm not sure whether
Peter was born there or in the hospital(May 17, 1931), but he lived there
until my parents emigrated in 1938." - Sarah Haffner, from last fall.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Untitled, Head #3...

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Untitled
Head #2
Peter Schmidt
Collage, over printed
1965-68
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Hansjörg Mayer & "alphabet"...

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Two pages from "alphabet"
Hansjörg Mayer
Editions Hansjörg Mayer
1962-3
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"Hansjörg Mayer’s alphabet is a sequence of twenty-six visual poems, each one focusing on a single letter of the alphabet. In this minimalist work, multiple instances of individual letterforms combine to create abstract graphic compositions – ideograms unencumbered by ideas – actualizing a purely formal rhythm of black strokes and white counters." - Guy Bennett
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Guy runs Mindmade Books, a small press publishing chapbooks of modern and contemporary poetry. With cooperation from Hansjorg Mayer, he republished "alphabet". Among the more than fifty titles that have appeared to date are works by internationally renowned poets, several “first collections,” and occasional reprints of little-known or long-out-of-print texts...
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The 4th "Monoprint"...

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"Monoprint"
(Alecto)
Peter Schmidt
Screen print on board
39" x 29', 1968
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Friday, May 21, 2010

"The Thoughts...", May 21, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"
Peter Schmidt
Web Version
2010
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Untitled, Gray Composition...

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Untitled,
Growth "programme"
(Gray Composition)
Peter Schmidt
Oil on canvas
1966
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Biography in 6 languages...

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Today, May 17th, marks what would have been Peter Schmidt's 79th birthday. I am pleased to announce today, that Peter's biography at the main website, has been translated from English into French, German, Italian, Icelandic, and Spanish.
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http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/bio.html
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Many happy returns...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Untitled, Head #2...

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Untitled
Head #2
Peter Schmidt
Collage, over printed
1965-68
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Friday, May 14, 2010

"The Thoughts...", May 14, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"
Peter Schmidt
Web Version
2010

Based on the original, created in 1970
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

"Monoprint", Collection Hansjörg Mayer...

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"Monoprint(Editions Alecto)"
(From an edition of 200)
Peter Schmidt
screen print on board
39" x 29", 1968
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Untitled, Artist's Proof #2...

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Untitled
(Artists Proof #2)
Peter Schmidt
Offset Lithgraph
1974
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Untitled, Red & Green Composition...

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Untitled, growth 'programme'
(Red & Green Composition)
Peter Schmidt
Edition of 20
Silk screen print, using 12 screens
1965
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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"The first printing was a plain green rectangle"
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Untitled, Artist's Proof #1...

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Untitled
(Artist's Proof #1)
Offset Lithograph
1974
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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Friday, May 7, 2010

"The Thoughts...", May 7, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"
Peter Schmidt
Web Version
2010
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

"Peter on the beach"...

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"Sea Side"
(6 prints in an edition of 80)
Peter Schmidt
Offset Lithograph prints
1974
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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"...based on snapshots of myself taken on holiday at Nordsea at the age of six."
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Untitled, periwinkle...

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Untitled, 'programme'
(periwinkle composition)
Peter Schmidt
Oil on canvas
1965
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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"Taking Tiger Mountain"...

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"Taking Tiger Mountain"
(Edition of 1500)
Peter Schmidt
screen print
1974
(Collection Hansjörg Mayer)
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This print, perhaps beacuse it is Hansjörg's, is not signed or numbered...
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