Eduard Micus

EDUARD MICUS (Germany, 1925 - Ibiza, 2000).
Untitled. 1985.
Acrylic on paper.
Signed in the lower corner.
Measurements: 29 x 39 cm; 51 x 65 cm (frame).

Eduard Micus was a German painter. He came to art in 1943 and 1944 through the Marburg painter and woodcutter Reinhard Schmidhagen (1914-1945). Schmidhagen was one of the artists who kept in touch with the German resistance against National Socialism. Micus studied with Willi Baumeister at the Art Academy in Stuttgart from 1948 to 1952. In 1952 he created his first paintings divided by a line, and from 1962 he divided his paintings, which he called "Coudragen", by a seam. In 1962 he participated in the exhibition Geste, Raum, Struktur in der neuen deutschen Malerei at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and in 1963 in the exhibition Absolute Farbe - Avantgart 63 at the Städtisches Museum Simeonstift in Trier. Micus was then living in Ebenhausen. In 1967 he was one of the German participants in the 6th San Marino Biennale, together with Gerhard Richter and Günther Uecker, among others. From 1965 to 1970, Eduard Micus was a member of the SYN group of artists, which represented the idea of holistic art. In 1965, he participated with the group in a demonstration organized by its members (among them Bernd Berner, Rolf-Gunter Dienst and Klaus Jürgen-Fischer) as a polemic against the "spirit of German art criticism" in front of the Galerie Baier in Mainz. In 1979, Eduard Micus was a member of the group led by Wolfgang Ker. In 1979, Eduard Micus participated in the exhibition "Hommage à Baumeister", curated by Wolfgang Kermer at the Stuttgart Academy. From 1982 onwards, he made collages of colored paper on canvas and pursued the dissolution of panel painting. From 1989 onwards, he worked with wood and painted material paintings. Works by the artist are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Eivissa/Ibiza. Eduard Micus was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund.