Matthias Gössmann

Matthias Gössmann made plotter drawings in the early 1980s with software he developed himself. He won a prize in the 1984 computer graphics competition of the Munich weekly Computerwoche, and a drawing from his series Variationen rotierender kubischer Elemente (1983) was shown in Computer-Kunst 86 in Gladbeck.

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Matthias Gössmann, also written Gößmann, studied electrical engineering and computer science, and in the early 1980s he made plotter drawings with software he developed himself. The 1986 catalog Prints & Plots: Computerkunst '86 describes his work as an effort to lead mathematical algorithms toward "visionary-allegorical" pictures. His series Variationen rotierender kubischer Elemente (variations of rotating cubic elements, 1983) ran to 18 plotter drawings, and No. 16 was shown in Computer-Kunst 86 in Gladbeck in 1986.

Gössmann won one of the seven 350-mark prizes in the 1984 computer graphics competition run by Computerwoche, a Munich computer weekly, and the prize list of January 1984 gives his home as Nuremberg. His untitled sheet in the competition folder shows straight lines fanned out in perspective around a central ring.