Marienplatz und Frauenkirche
Daniel Spoerri (Galati/Rumänien 1930)
Lot-No. 117
Color offset, 10,5 x 14,5 cm, sidelong r. sign. Daniel Spoerri, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Postcard from the Staeck-edition, 1972. - Swiss artist, dancer and director of Romanian origin, founder of Eat-Art. After a career as dancer he settled in Paris in 1959 where he met J. Tinguely, Arman and Y. Klein. He created his first sculptures and invented the so called Tableaux pièges which depicted the leftovers of meals on tables. In 1960 he was co-founder of the artist's group Nouveau Réalisme. In 1968 he founded the 'Eat-Art Edition' and the Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf. 1978-89 he was professor at the academies Cologne and Munich. Mus.: Paris (Centre Pompidou), New York (MoMA), London (Tate), Vienna (Mus. Ludwig), Hannover (Sprengel-Mus.) a. others.
Daniel Spoerri: Marienplatz und Frauenkirche
Daniel Spoerri (Galati/Rumänien 1930)
Marienplatz und Frauenkirche
Lot-No. 117
Color offset, 10,5 x 14,5 cm, sidelong r. sign. Daniel Spoerri, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Postcard from the Staeck-edition, 1972. - Swiss artist, dancer and director of Romanian origin, founder of Eat-Art. After a career as dancer he settled in Paris in 1959 where he met J. Tinguely, Arman and Y. Klein. He created his first sculptures and invented the so called Tableaux pièges which depicted the leftovers of meals on tables. In 1960 he was co-founder of the artist's group Nouveau Réalisme. In 1968 he founded the 'Eat-Art Edition' and the Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf. 1978-89 he was professor at the academies Cologne and Munich. Mus.: Paris (Centre Pompidou), New York (MoMA), London (Tate), Vienna (Mus. Ludwig), Hannover (Sprengel-Mus.) a. others.