Wikipedia: Peter Roehr (1944-1968) was a German minimalist painter and object artist who died of lymphoma.Roehr made with industrially produced elements or printed motifs in serial sequence usually square image panels. This addition each of the same motives that any subjectivity fades, attention is directed to the individual repetierten parts, on the applied principle of order, as directed on the resulting bulk form. The artist chose motifs in a well-defined size and number, so that a new formal unit was created. The materials chosen to bring prototypically the stereotypes of mass society expressed: Post stickers like Quick shipment or write-posting list are included as well as motif excerpts from the Illustrated advertising , book labels, price labels, beer cap with the design of the Henninger Tower or square school slate tables and round plastic lenses. His typographic progressions he presented with mechanical rakes - and typewriters ago (addition strip ST-9, 1962) and is here to have formal links to the also working in Frankfurt Franz Mon addition also emerged. photographic and film montages . In his speech he had sound montages contributions of German and American broadcasters (excerpts from news, program announcements, advertising texts) arranged in series. Roehr was one of the first protagonists of Minimal Art in Germany. When the artist in 1968 at the age of 23 lymphoma died, he left behind more than 600 works of one of the most impressive artistic oeuvre. The urn of the artist is kept in a serially arranged urn wall on the Frankfurt's main cemetery is located. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.