folded clock - Gerhard Ruhm

Ruhm, Gerhard: - Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1930, author, composer, visual artist Gerhard Ruhm is one of the key figures in the postwar European (neo)avant-garde. He studied music in the 1950s and '60s and was a founding member of the legendary Vienna Group. His work is characterized by the intersections of music and language as well as text and image and thus encompasses poetry, prose, radio plays, drama scenarios, music compositions, visual compositions, collages, and graphic art, and reflects the techniques of concrete poetry and Dadaism, while also influenced by Surrealism and Dark Romanticism.