The collection XXIX — Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986

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Actors (42)

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  Luciano Fabro

  Luciano Fabro (1936–2007, Italy) was a sculptor who ‘reasoned with his senses’ and one of the artists who defined arte povera (‘poor art’) in

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  herman de vries

  herman de vries (1931, the Netherlands, lives in Germany) studies horticulture before becoming an artist in the early 1950s, starting with co

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  Anselm Kiefer

  Anselm Kiefer (1945, Germany, lives in Paris) was a student of Joseph Beuys who became a painter and sculptor and occasionally makes large-sc

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  André Cadere

  André (or Andrei) Cadere (1934-1978) was born in Poland, but grew up in Romania. During the sixties and seventies, he develops into an influe

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  Robert Indiana

  Robert Indiana (1928, US, lives in Maine) is a painter, sculptor and printmaker, associated with Pop Art because of his attention to the rhet

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  Sigmar Polke

  German painter-photographer Sigmar Polke (b. 1941), who developed a varied graphic oeuvre since the 1960s, uses photos, clippings, slogans an

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  Victor Burgin

  Victor Burgin (1941, UK, lives in London and Paris) has critiqued the overt and covert ideology of contemporary western capitalist society in

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  Jenny Holzer

  Jenny Holzer (1950, US, lives in New York) visualises language as an instrument of political and psychological manipulation. Her use of langu

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  Jörg Immendorff

  During the 1960s Jörg Immendorff studies at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. After finishing his set design studies, he went on to

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  Alighiero Boetti

  Alighiero Boetti (Alighiero e Boetti) was a conceptual artist who was part of the Arte Povera movement in Italy during the late 1960s and ear

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  Jef Cornelis

  Jef Cornelis (1941, Belgium, lives in Antwerp) worked for BRT, Belgian Radio and Television, from 1963 until 1998. He first made documentarie

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  Mario Merz

  Mario Merz (1925–2003, Italy) is a central figure in the arte povera movementof the 1960s. In the beginning of this decade Merz takes up scul

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  Gego

  Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912–1994, Germany/Venezuela) studies architecture and engineering before fleeing the Nazis in 1939. By the late 1

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  Nancy Spero

  Nancy Spero (1926–2009, US) is a leading pioneer of feminist art and a member of the group Women Artists’ Revolution. From the 1960s her most