Hans Breder
Died
Like Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, for Hans Breder the task of art, as a kind of thought, was spiritual. His work articulates and evokes an ineffable power beyond reason and unreason. Against the monumental materialism of Western culture over the last six decades, Breder’s sensibility was expressed in and between painting, sculpture, photography, music, installation, video and film--each expression an invitation to subversive liminality and momentary transcendence. Breder’s work dissolves boundaries and manipulates perception, sometimes enticing, sometimes shocking the observer to an experience of liminality from which a realm of pure possibility may emerge.
Hans Breder studied painting in his native Germany before coming to the U.S. in the mid-1960s. One of the first video artists whose work has been included in three Whitney Biennials, Breder founded the Intermedia Program in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa in 1968 and directed it until his retirement as a F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor in 2000. The internationally regarded program built on Breder’s interdisciplinary inclination for intellectual and aesthetic collision.
photo: Chris Coretsopoulos
Available Titles by Hans Breder
| Title | Year | Runtime | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 + 7 | 2015 | 00:31:00 | Single Titles |
| an-tee-sit-ee | 1984 | 01:01:00 | Single Titles |
| anti-city | 1984 | 00:09:00 | Single Titles |
| THE AX HAS FLOWERED | 2016 | 00:13:00 | Single Titles |
| betwixt | 2014 | 00:09:00 | Single Titles |
| black and white | 2004 | 00:07:30 | Single Titles |
| boxed-in | 1969 | 00:09:00 | Single Titles |
| boxed-in 1993 | 1993 | 00:10:00 | Single Titles |
| danza de la muerte | 2016 | 00:10:30 | Single Titles |
| eclipse | 1970 | 00:10:00 | Single Titles |
| Fontana Song for Scrim | 2001 | 00:10:00 | Single Titles |
| For C…, In Memory I | 1971 | 00:01:45 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| For C…, In Memory II | 1971 | 00:01:45 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| geKLEMMpt: Physical Religion | 2011 | 01:00:00 | Single Titles |
| How Faustus Had His First Sight of Paradise | 1971 | 00:09:00 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| hybrid | 1970 | 00:11:00 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| IKARUS | 1974 | 00:20:00 | Single Titles |
| intertext | 1976 | 00:12:00 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| janus-faced | 1994 | 00:18:00 | Single Titles |
| jen-uh-sahyd | 2015 | 00:19:00 | Single Titles |
| Lux Aeterna | 2016 | 00:41:00 | Single Titles |
| Moscow Postcards | 1989 | 00:15:00 | Single Titles |
| My TV Dictionary: The Drill | 1986 | 00:04:00 | Single Titles |
| The Nazi Loop | 1996 | 00:00:00 | Single Titles |
| Oaxaca 2004 | 2013 | 00:44:00 | Single Titles |
| the passage | 2009 | 00:21:00 | Single Titles |
| Percussion Piece | 1973 | 00:09:00 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| quanta | 1967 | 00:07:00 | Single Titles |
| Rosa | 1980 | 00:02:30 | Single Titles |
| Salomé | 2015 | 00:44:00 | Single Titles |
| Stavros | 1980 | 00:05:00 | Single Titles |
| tel-uh-vizh-uh-n | 2014 | 00:29:00 | Single Titles |
| through the glass | 1973 | 00:07:30 | Single Titles |
| tlocalula (blue) | 2016 | 00:13:30 | Single Titles |
| tlocolula (green) | 2016 | 00:21:00 | Single Titles |
| traces | 2015 | 00:19:00 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
| umbral | 1974 | 00:10:00 | Single Titles |
| under a malicious sky | 1988 | 00:10:00 | Single Titles |
| Ursonate 1986 | 1986 | 00:30:00 | Single Titles |
| Vision of St. Bernard | 2016 | 00:44:00 | Single Titles |
| words ending | 2014 | 00:20:00 | Single Titles |
| zwielicht (germany) | 2006 | 00:25:00 | Single Titles |
| zwielicht (usa) | 2016 | 00:41:00 | Single Titles |