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Kunstmarkt Köln ’67
50 years Art Cologne: Günter Herzog, director of Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels on the First Kunstmarkt at Gürzenich and Kölnischer Kunstverein, September 13–17, 1967
The genesis of today’s ART COLOGNE, a fair focused on classical modernism, postwar art and contemporary art, was the Kunstmarkt Köln 67. At six in the evening on September 12, 1967, the fair opened in the Gürzenich, the Gothic ceremonial hall of the city of Cologne; it would change the weiterlesen
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Cologne’s Shortest Exhibition Ever
was entitled “bis das Ei hartgekocht ist” (Until the Egg is Hard-Boiled) and took place on September 12, 1963 at Galerie Zwirner at Kolumbakirchhof 2 (by Günter Herzog)
Daniel Spoerri, the artist who provided the works, explained the exhibition in his very rare invitation—so rare that even ZADIK did not receive one—as follows: “Well, when I drove to Cologne around ten days ago in my small van with bad brakes to pick up weiterlesen
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Frauen im Leben meines Vaters
Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels on Its Holdings: “Women in my Father’s Life” – Brigitte Jacobs van Renswou on Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen’s First Exhibition at Erhard Klein, 1983
The artist Martin Kippenberger, who died in 1997 at age 44 and was nicknamed KIPPI, is still today considered a provocateur, enfant terrible, bad boy, rebel. This reputation was based above all on his energy-laden, sometimes quite vociferous appearances and productions that were the stuff weiterlesen
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Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Cologne, New York, 1963–1980
Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels on Its Holdings: Günter Herzog on a Legendary Art Dealer
During the 1960s and 1970s, Galerie Heiner Friedrich played an extraordinarily important role for the development, the reputation, and the international orientation of the West German art world, but for Heiner Friedrich it was only the first step along a path towards a life-relationship with art that seeks its equal in probably every way.
It all began at a Carnival weiterlesen
