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Kugel in der Kugel
Nees, Georg, born 1926 - died 2016 - Enlarge image
Kugel in der Kugel
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
Germany (probably, made)
- Date:
ca. 1970 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Nees, Georg, born 1926 - died 2016 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Screenprint on paper, mounted on board
- Credit Line:
Given by the Computer Arts Society, supported by System Simulation Ltd, London
- Museum number:
E.63-2008
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3H, shelf 23
Georg Nees (born 1926, Nuremberg) is considered one of the founders of computer art and graphics. He was also one of the first people to exhibit his computer graphics, at the studio gallery of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in February 1965.
Nees studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Stuttgart. He subsequently worked for Siemens as a software engineer, and was instrumental in their purchasing a 'Zuse Graphomat', a drawing machine operated by computer-generated punched tape. The machine was capable of creating geometric patterns and, although the programming language that Nees used (ALGOL) was designed specifically for scientific computers, Nees used it to create aesthetic images such as this one.
In 1969 he received his doctorate on the subject of Generative Computer Graphics under Max Bense, the German philosopher and writer.
