Eugen Gomringer

Eugen Gomringer (born January 20, 1925 in Cachuela Esperanza, Bolivia) is often called the father of concrete poetry.^[1] Eugen Gomringer is head of the Institut für Konstruktive Kunst und Konkrete Poesie (IKKP) in Rehau (Kunsthaus Rehau), the town where he lives.

Gomringer lives in the region of Bamberg in Germany. Between 1977–1990 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. He writes in German, Spanish, French and English.

References

1. Steiner, Wendy (1981). "Res Poetica: The Problematics of the Concrete Program". New Literary History (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 12 (3): 529–545. JSTOR 469028.

External links

• Publications by and about Eugen Gomringer in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library