Category: ARTISTS
ARTISTS
Andy Warhol is arguably the best-known artist of the second half of the 20th century. His works Double Elvis, Gold Marilyn and his Campbell’s Soup Cans are iconic. In 2011 a batch of drawings from the 1950s –the first decade Warhol spent in New York – was discovered among the works he left in his estate. In these early drawings Warhol establishes a precedent for his subsequent work. We come across: Portraits, Flowers, Guns, Car Crashes and Famous People. Through these drawings we see Warhol as a sensitive and ingenious draftsman.
He was particularly inspired by the blossoming magazine culture and its pictorial language. Extensive research by Daniel Blau has now identified the majority of the sources he used for his 1950s works. Warhol drew a large number of subjects from the world-famous LIFE magazine.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
“Andy Warhol-From A to B and Back Again”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
“Contact Warhol: Photography Without End”, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, USA
2019
“Andy Warhol: By Hand (Drawings 1950s-1980s)”, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2018
“Andy Warhol-From A to B and Back Again”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2015
“Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works 1953–1967”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
“YES!YES!YES! Warholmania”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
“From Marilyn to Mao: Andy Warhol‘s Famous Faces”, Columbia Museum of Art Columbia, USA
“Andy Warhol and William Morris”, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
“Pop To Popism”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
“Transmitting Andy Warhol”, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2014
“Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster”, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
“Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life”, Philadelphia Museum of Art,Philadelphia, USA
“From Photo to Print. Prints from Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
“SUPERPOP!”, Serlachius Museum Gosta, Mantta, Finland
“Andy Warhol: Life, Death and Beauty”, Beaux-arts Mons, Mons, Belgium
2013
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2013
Teylers Museum, The Netherlands
2013
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
2009
Grand Palais, Paris
2000
Lousiana Museum, Humlebaek
1999
Large travelling exhibition at Kunsthalle Hamburg; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; International Center for Photography, New York
1993
Kunsthalle, Basel
1989
Travelling exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Serpentine Gallery, London; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas
1981
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977
Museum Folkwang, Essen
1972
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1970
Travelling exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum Eindhoven; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; TheTate Gallery, London; Whitney Museum, NewYork
1966
The Velvet Underground is formed
1963
The Factory is founded
1962
First Campbell’s Soup and Coca Cola screen-print series, exhibited at Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles. Participation at The New Realists, Janis Gallery, New York
1956
Thirty Fifth Annual Art Director’s Club Award for his commercial shoe drawings
1952
Hugo Gallery: Fifteen Drawings based on the Writings of Truman Capote
Literature (Selection)
From Silverpoint to Silver Screen – Andy Warhol 1950s Drawings ed. Daniel Blau, published by Hirmer January 2013
Andy Warhol – Zeichnungen 1942-1987, ed. The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, 2005
Andy Warhol – Catalogue Rainsonné Vol. 2 (Paintings and Sculptures 1964-69), Georg Frei, Neil Printz, London, 2004
Andy Warhol – Catalogue Rainsonné Vol. 1 (Paintings and Sculptures 1961-63), Georg Frei, Neil Printz, London, 2002
Warhol Pre-Pop, Jesse Kornbluth, München, 1989
Andy Warhol – Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975, ed. by Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1976
Stephanie von Reiswitz
Munich-born and very much immersed in the London universe, Stephanie von Reiswitz depicts surreal tales of past glories and tragedies, while rendering through her sombre colours and shapes an aesthetic reminiscent of the Weimar Republic.
Chris Bianchi
A self-invented Maltesian, Chris Bianchi’s somewhat surreal ideas are rendered in landscapes where new perspectives lead onto more and the viewer will find their mind pleasantly boggled.
Robert Rubbish
A unique Londoner and notorious Soho character, Robert Greene (a.k.a. Robert Rubbish), comprises half of the Victorian punk revivalist duo, the Rubbish Men, and shares generously a slice of his world through an adventurous synthesis of drawings and writing.
Bill Bragg
An illustrator with an appreciation for the deeper shades that a pencil can afford, this Englishman depicts fragmentary tales of mystery and conjures unlikely characters in a beautifully noir-esque style.
Neal Fox
Neal Fox was born 1981 in London, studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Art and illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. Fox is co-founder of LE GUN, an illustrative collective and their publication of the same name. He lives and works in London.
Penck was born in Dresden, Germany in 1939 as Ralf Winkler. In his early teens he took painting and drawing lessons with Jürgen Böttcher, known by the pseudonym Strawalde, and joined with him to form the renegade artists’ group Erste Phalanx Nedserd (Dresden spelled backward). He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. After failing to gain admission to the fine-arts academies in Dresden and East Berlin, Penck worked for several years as a stoker, a newspaper deliverer, a margarine packer and a night watchman.
Penck later studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz. Under the East German communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents. In the late 1970s they were included in shows in West Berlin and were seen as exponents of free speech in the East. His work was shown by major museums and galleries in the West throughout the 1980s.
Penck first attracted attention with a series of paintings and sculptures, made in the 1960s and early 1970s, that he called Standarts, a conflation of “standard” and “art”, with an echo of the German word for banner or flag, Standarte. In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.
Penck’s sculptures, though less familiar, evoke the same primitive themes as his paintings and drawings. They use common everyday materials such as wood, bottles, cardboard boxes, tin cans, masking tape, tinfoil, and wire, and are crudely painted and assembled.The sculptures are often reminiscent of the stone heads of Easter Island and other Oceanic art.
After leaving East Germany, Penck settled in Kerpen, southwest of Cologne, but in 1983 he moved to London. He later relocated to Dublin. At the time of his death, Penck lived and worked in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and New York City.
Penck died on 2 May 2017 in Zürich at the age of 77.
Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
A.R. Penck, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
2022
A.R. Penck, Museo d’arte Mendrisio, Switzerland
2020
A.R. Penck, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2019
A.R. Penck – „Ich aber komme aus Dresden (check it out man, check it out).”, Albertinum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2019
A. R. PENCK: I THINK IN PICTURES, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2017
A.R. Penck – Rites de passage, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint‑Paul-de-Vence, France
2015
A. R. Penck – System, Signal, Störung, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
2013
A. R. Penck – Eine Retrospektive, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
A.R. Penck – Holzschnitte, Radierungen, Lithographien, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
2010
A.R. Penck, Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Literature (Selection)
A.R. Penck—Retrospektive, ed. by Ingrid Pfeiffer und Max Hollein, Frankfurt Düsseldorf, 2007
A.R. Penck—Konfessionen, Bilder 1988-1995, ed. by Christian K. Scheffel, Bad Homburg, 2000
A. R. Penck—Holzschnitte 1966-1995, ed. by Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, 2004
A.R. Penck, A.R. Penck—Zeichungen 1958-1985 Frauen Skulpturen Abstraktes, Bern, 1986
A. R. Penck—Zeichnungen bis 1975, ed. by Kunstmuseum Basel, 1978
Matt Mullican was born 1951 in Santa Monica, California. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as in Valencia, Spain. His complex language and logic systems, as expressed on paper, glass and various media, have gained in versatility and applicability with the growth of computers and the internet. Mullican lives and works in New York and Berlin.
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2011
Haus der Kunst, Munich
2010
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2008
Museum of Art, Liechtenstein
2006—2007
Stuttgart Museum of Art showing at Stuttgart Airport
2005—2006
Lentos Museum, Linz
2005
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2003
Internationaal Kunstcentrum, Antwerpen
2001
Kunsthalle Basel. Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
1999
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1997
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (with Lawrence Weiner) Documenta IX, Kassel
1995
New National Gallery and Alexanderplatz Station, Berlin
1990
Visiting professorship at Städelschule, Frankfurt
1989
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel
Literature
Matt Mullican—Model Architecture, ed. by Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2006
Matt Mullican—DC: Learning from that Person’s Work, ed. by Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2005
Matt Mullican, Brooke Alexander, Galerie Daniel Blau, Mai 36 Galerie, New York, Munich, Zürich, 2000
Matt Mullican—Works 1972-1992, ed. by Ulrich Wilmes, Cologne, 1993
Markus Lüpertz was born 1941 in Liberec, Bohemia. From 1956—1963 he studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and the Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, where he was director from 1988 to 2009. Markus Lüpertz works as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, poet and set designer and is considered to be one of the most influential of Germany’s contemporary artists. He works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence.
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2009
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
2005
Erection of Mozart sculpture in Salzburg
2003—2005
Completion of stained glass window in parish church, Cologne
2003
Julio-Gonzáles-Prize of the Valencia Monarchy
1991
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
1990
Lovis-Corinth-Prize of the Esslingen art-guild
1983
Musée d’art Moderne, Straßburg
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel
1981
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1977
Kunsthalle Hamburg; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle Bern
1976
Professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts
1973
First individual museum exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1970
Villa Romana Prize, Florence
1962
Founding of self-help gallery Großgörschen 35, with Bernd Koberling and Karl Horst Hödike
Literature (Selection)
Markus Lüpertz—Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Bilder und Skulpturen1963—2009, ed. by Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2009
Markus Lüpertz, Siegfried Gohr, Cologne, 2002
Markus Lüpertz—Druckgraphik.Werkverzeichnis 1960—1990, ed. by James Hofmaier, Stuttgart, 1991
Markus Lüpertz—Bilder Gouachen und Zeichnungen 1967—1973, Siegfried Gohr, Berlin, 1986
Markus Lüpertz—Bilder 1970—1983, ed. by Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 1983
Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments has exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. “A structure-less painting is, to me, a painting that does not matter. Structure mirrors your degree of responsibility toward the work”, he said of making art. “You can’t just let it float around in pretty colours. It needs a kind of core. But this is an inner structure”. Born on September 1, 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kirkeby studied geology at the University of Copenhagen, but continued to pursue his art practice, producing paintings, sculptures, film and prints. During the 1960s, Kirkeby’s performance art led him to collaborations with Conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, and Charlotte Moorman. From 1978-88 he held a chair for painting at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, from 1979-2000 at Städelschule Frankfurt/Main.
Kirkeby lived and worked between Copenhagen, Læsø, and Arnasco. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denkmark, among others.
He died on May 9th 2018 at the age of 79.
Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
“Per Kirkeby”, Charlottenborg Foundation, Denmark
2019
“Per Kirkeby. Bau und Bild”, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Germany
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
2009—2010
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2008—2009
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek
2003
Herbert-Boeckl-Prize for his life work Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999
Tate Gallery, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation. Henrik Steffens Award by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
1995
Haus der Kunst, Munich. Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes
1990
Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nord LB Art Prize
1987
Thorvalsden Medal. Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1982
DAAD scholarship for Berlin. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1980
Danish Pavilion at Venice Biennale. Participation in A new Spirit in Painting,
1978—1989
Professorship at the Cologne Academy of Arts
1979
Kunsthalle Bern Museum
1977
Folkwang, Essen
Literature (Selection)
Per Kirkeby—Paintings 1957-77. Catalogue Raisonné, ed. by Ane Hejlskov Larson, Cologne, 2003
Per Kirkeby—Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings, ed. by Troels Andersen, Bern Berlin, 2002
Per Kirkeby—Louisiana 2008, ed. by Michael Juul Holm, Louisiana, 2008
Per Kirkeby—Die Welt ist Material, ed. by Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2010
Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945 and has lived and worked in France since 1993. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at MoMA, New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1998); Fort Worth Museum of Art (2005); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); Mass MoCA, Massachusetts; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Grand Palais, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2010); the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2011), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011) and The Royal Academy, London (2014).
In 2007 Kiefer became the first artist to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre, Paris since Georges Braque some 50 years earlier. In 2009 he created an opera, Am Anfang, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Opéra National de Paris. The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris staged major solo presentations of his work in 2015.
His work critically engages with myth and memory, referencing totems of German culture and collective history. “Germans want to forget [the past] and start a new thing all the time, but only by going into the past can you go into the future,” he says. Revealing the influence of his tutelage under Joseph Beuys, Kiefer‘s epic-scaled, dense sculptures and paintings are often exposed to elements like acid and fire, and incorporate materials such as lead, burned books, concrete, thorny branches, ashes, and clothing; famed critic and historian Simon Schama has described his work as “heavy-load maximalism.” Kiefer’s vast-ranging references have included the Black Forest, Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and Caspar David Friedrich’s Romantic landscapes, as well as Kabbalah mysticism, Cold War politics, National Socialist architecture, and German poetry by Celan, Rilke and others. “Art is difficult,” he says. “It’s not entertainment.”
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2022
Anselm Kiefer, Grand Palais Ephémère Paris, France
2021
Anselm Kiefer, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2019
Anselm Kiefer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2017
Anselm Kiefer, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2015
Paintings, Sculpture & Installations, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami L‘alchimie du Livre, Nationale Bibliotheque, Paris, France.
2014
Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Art, London St. John’s Eve, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany
2013
Walther von der Vogelweide für Lia, Galeria Lia Rumma, Naples Beyond Landscape, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts Un Maestro de la Pintura, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruña
2012
Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer: Drawings, Gouaches, Books, MKM Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art, Duisburg Am Anfang, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn Works from the Essl Collection’, Essl Museum, Vienna
2011
Anselm Kiefer: Shevirat Ha-Kelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ausgewahlte Arbeiten aus der Sammluing Grothe, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Salt of the Earth, Fondazione Vedova, Venice Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Literature (Selection)
Anselm Kiefer—Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, ed. by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2009
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher, ed. by Heiner Bastian, Munich, 2008
Anselm Kiefer—Wege der Weltweisheit/ Die Frauen der Revolution, ed. by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2007
Anselm Kiefer, ed. by Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, 2004
Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse, London, 2001
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher 1969-90, ed. by Götz Adriani, Stuttgart, 1990
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2010
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2009
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
2008
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2007
Tate Britain, London
2006
Tate Liverpool
2005
Kunsthaus Bregenz
2004
Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen. Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg
2003
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
2002
Travelling exhibition at Groninger Museum, Groningen and Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2000
P1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Kunst Werke, Berlin
1999
Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2009—2010
Barock, Madre Museum, Naples
2009
Mapping the Studio, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2007
Summer Exhibition, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006
Ars, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2003
Tate Britain, London (Nomination for Turner Prize 2003)
Literature (Selection)
Jake & Dinos Chapman—Memento Moronika, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 2008
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eckhard Schneider, ed. by Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2005
Jake & Dinos Chapman—The Rape of Creativity, ed. by Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 2003
Jake Chapman—Metaphysics, London, 2003
Jake & Dinos Chapman—Enjoy more, ed. by Museum Groningen and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2002/2003
Jake and Dinos Chapman—Works from the Chapman Family Collection, ed. by White Cube, London, 2002
Unholy Bible—Six Feet Under, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1997