Hans-Peter Feldmann

Feldmann was born on 17 January 1941. In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz in Austria. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bild (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type - knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, and so on - their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions. In 1979, Feldmann decided to pull out of the art world in order to just make books and pictures for himself. In 1989, the curator Kasper König persuaded Feldmann to exhibit his work in a gallery again. Feldmann died on 24 May 2023, at the age of 82. Feldmann was a figure in the conceptual art movement and practitioner in the artist book and multiple formats.