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Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Siegfried Cremer (* 24. June 1929 in Dortmund; "  15. January 2015 in Stuttgart [1]) was a visual artist, restorer and collector. Cremer worked from 1955 to 1964 as a restorer at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld. From 1964 to 1977 he headed the restoration studios of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from 1977 to 1994 he was Professor of Illustration at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. As an artist Siegfried Cremer created an as extensive as multifaceted oeuvre that steadily grew in more than 50 years. It ranges from mobile and kinetic objects around 1960 (Kinetic art) and reduced settlement in the 1970s through gestural Random painting and paintings and sculptures from found objects to paper collage, predominantly Art Print, which he mainly devoted himself since the mid-80s. Between 1955 and 1974, Siegfried Cremer was a collection of works of art especially of the 1960s (ZERO, Fluxus, Nouveau Réalisme) together (including a compilation of works by Hermann Finsterlin),...