Chemogram

[3] Although Johann Schulze, Hippolyte Bayard, Maurice Tabard and Edmund Kesting had experimented in obtaining chemigram-like images before, Pierre Cordier is considered the pioneer of the chemigram and of its development as a means of artistic expression.

He had learned the technique of creating chemigrams from his Professor Pan Walther,[4] who had adopted it from Edmund Kesting – both coming from Dresden.

So this chemogram Neumann seventies of the 20th century differs beginning of the previously created decades cameraless Photogram.

These artworks were almost simultaneously with the invention of photography of various important artists as distinctive in its initial phase Hippolyte Bayard, Thomas Wedgwood, William Henry Fox Talbot and later inziniert in the twenties Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy and in the 30s by the painter Edmund Kesting and Christian Schad, by draped objects directly on suitably sensitized photographic paper and using a light source without use camera pictured.

In 1974, within Josef H. Neumann's chemogram, the interface between the artistic media of painting and photography that existed up to that point was closed for the first time in an art-historically relevant manner.