Hansjorg Mayer

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German | 1943

Hansjorg Mayer is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1943. Numerous key galleries and museums such as ZKM | Center for Art & Media have featured Hansjorg Mayer's work in the past.Hansjorg Mayer's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 108 USD to 7,742 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2021 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,742 USD for Alphabet Square, sold at Zwiggelaar Auctions in 2021. Hansjorg Mayer has been featured in articles for and . The most recent article is written for Studio International in July 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Hansj枚rg Mayer

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1234 weiche Schnellstzeichnungen 1987 ,1234

By Hansjorg Mayer

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Kleinere Werke (2. Teil ,1971

By Hansjorg Mayer

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80 wolken. 1965 bis 1967 ,1965

By Hansjorg Mayer

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Lygia ,1965

By Hansjorg Mayer

Mayer, Hansj枚rg (b.1943). - Hansjorg Mayer

Mayer, Hansjörg (b.1943).

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Typoaktionen 2. ,1976

By Hansjorg Mayer

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80 wolken. 1965 bis 1967 - Hansjorg Mayer

80 wolken. 1965 bis 1967 ,1965

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1234 weiche Schnellstzeichnungen 1987 - Hansjorg Mayer

1234 weiche Schnellstzeichnungen 1987 ,1234

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Kleinere Werke (2. Teil - Hansjorg Mayer

Kleinere Werke (2. Teil ,1971

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Exhibition poster and sales catalogues (1) Poster announcing two exhibitions of books produced (2-4) Three Verlagsverzeichnis/booklists offering new titles, ,1976

By Hansjorg Mayer

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Two publications (1) Freunde and Freunde Friends and Freund. Stuttgart (2) Stefan Wewerka's Frühlinkskindermalbuchwalzer für die lieben Kleinen, von und mit Steffen Wewerka. Stuttgart/Cologne/London ,1969

By Hansjorg Mayer

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Zeitschrift für Alles / Review for Everything / Timarit fyvir Allt, No. 1 - Hansjorg Mayer

Zeitschrift für Alles / Review for Everything / Timarit fyvir Allt, No. 1 ,1975

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Past Exhibitions

Reading »rot« Again

ZKM | Center for Art & Media

Karlsruhe | Germany

25 Jul, 2024 - 25 Aug, 2024

Intermedia: Archivio di Nuova Scrittura

Museion, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Bolzano | Italy

22 Nov, 2019 - 07 Jun, 2020

Hansjörg Mayer. Typoems and Artist Books

Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Tiergarten | Berlin | Germany

25 Oct, 2019 - 12 Jan, 2020

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Articles

Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**

Studio International 10 Jul, 2025

Two exhibitions in central London this summer celebrate the contemporary and historical impact of print and small press publishing

With Materials Ranging from Twine to Urine, Artists Are Reinventing the Book at the Getty

Forbes 27 Aug, 2018

Do not attempt to speed read Book 91. Authored by the artist Keith A. Smith, the book won't tie you up with complicated language or intricate plotting. But if you try to turn the pages too quickly, your fingers will get tangled in string.

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鈥� ..Mayer鈥檚 fascination with the printing process, which he was able to experience firsthand in his family鈥檚 print shop, provided him with the initial impulse for his Druckprozessbildern (printed images)... 鈥�
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Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

鈥� ..Mayer鈥檚 intuitive fascination for the by-products of the printing process, which he discovered and collected in his family鈥檚 print shop, quickly developed into a poetry of material and coincidence in this... 鈥�
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ZKM | Center for Art & Media

鈥� ..Mayer has not merely become one of the most important protagonists of concrete and visual poetry with his typographic experiments... 鈥�
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ZKM | Center for Art & Media

鈥� ..Since then, Mayer has published more than 300 books, posters, films, records and videos in the edition hansj枚rg mayer... 鈥�
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Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin