Overview

• He died on Thursday in Bamberg at the age of 100, his son Stefan Gomringer confirmed.
• He is widely credited with founding concrete poetry, publishing the trilingual collection "konstellationen constellations constelaciones" in 1953.
• His best-known work, "avenidas," was overpainted on a Berlin university façade after student objections and has since been displayed in Rehau.
• He was born in Bolivia in 1925 to a Swiss father and Bolivian mother, grew up in Switzerland, and spent most of his career in Germany.
• His career bridged art and design as secretary to Max Bill in Ulm, culture officer at Rosenthal, professor in Düsseldorf, and member of the Akademie der Künste, with his papers placed in 2019 at the Swiss Literary Archive and a centenary exhibition held in Rehau in January.