Gustav Metzger was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 and came to Britain as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children movement.
He is known as the leading exponent of Auto-Destructive Art and part of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s.
He was also an active member of CND and attended their early rocket base campaigns of direct action and occupation.
In 1959 he published the first auto-destructive manifesto Auto-Destructive Art. This was given as a lecture to the Architecture Association in 1964, which was taken over by students as an artistic 'Happening'.
In 1961, he participated in the Festival of Misfits with the Fluxus group, in Gallery One, London. He exhibited the front page of the Daily Mirror covering the Vietnam War. His contribution was rejected by the other participants.
Since then he has continued to make challenging art works around the world. He currently lives and works in East London.
In 1959, GustavMetzger used political and ecological issues, such as the nuclear arms race and the increasing environmental destruction, as points of departure for the development of his co ncept of Auto-Destructive Art.
GustavMetzger was also involved to the same extent as his artistic work in theoretical lectures, symposia, and political forums.
GustavMetzger was always interested in daily papers and their design as a sign of reality and also a mirror and storage medium for history.
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