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THE DEATH OF ART 2017 - ?

 

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Conceived as a tribute to the artists who have marked the history of Western art, THE DEATH OF ART brings together some three hundred and fifty photographs showing – from the Renaissance to the present day – the tombstones of the greatest artists whose graves have come down to us.

The ensemble constitutes a kind of Pantheon of Western art and brings together in one place and at one time artists whose graves are scattered across the world and the centuries.

The images were made since 2017 in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. The images are printed under glass and are the exact dimensions of each artist's tombstone.

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In September 2022, THE DEATH OF ART was presented presented for the first time as an installation at the Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland, as part of Images Vevey, Biennale des arts visuels.

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Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Leon Battista Alberti, Cuno Amiet, Albert Anker, Karel Appel, Alexander Archipenko, Armand Fernandez - Arman, Hans Arp, Léon Bakst, Hugo Ball, Emmy Ball-Hennings, Giacomo Ballà, Balthasar KÅ‚ossowski de Rola - Balthus, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri - Guercino, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frédéric Bazille, Aubrey Beardsley, Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, Hans Bellmer, Alexandre Benois, Émile Bernard, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, William Blake, Anna et Bernhard Blume, Umberto Boccioni, Arnold Böcklin, Alighiero Boetti, Pierre Bonnard, Richard Parkes Bonington, Marius Borgeaud, Francesco Borromini, Sandro Botticelli, Eugène Boudin, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Brassaï, Victor Brauner, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Breugel de Oude, Charles le Brun, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Edward Burne-Jones, Pol Bury, Gustave Caillebotte, Charles Camoin, Giovanni Antonio Canal - Canaletto, Michelangelo Merisi - Caravaggio, Carlo Carrà, Annibale Carracci, Mary Cassatt, Benvenuto Cellini, César Baldaccini - César, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Ferdinand Cheval - Le Facteur Cheval, Giorgio de Chirico, Frederic Edwin Church, Camille Claudel, Thomas Cole, John Constable, John Copley, Lovis Corinth, Joseh Cornell, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, John Sell Cotman, Gustave Courbet, Lucas Cranach der Ältere, Henri-Edmond Cross, Jean Crotti, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Salvador Dalí, Hanne Darboven, Charles-François Daubigny, Honoré Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Paul Delvaux, Maurice Denis, André Derain, Otto Dix, Donato Donatello, Gustave Doré, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Raoul Dufy, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Albrecht Dürer, Antoon van Dyck, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Alexandra Exter, Hubert van Eyck, Henri Fantin-Latour, Lyonel Feininger, Anselm Feuerbach, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Lucian Freud, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Thomas Gainsborough, Émile Gallé, Antoni Gaudí, Paul Gauguin, Théodore Géricault, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Alberto Giacometti, Diego Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Hans Ruedi Giger, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Albert Gleizes, Vincent van Gogh, Hendrick Goltzius, Natalia Goncharova, Arshile Gorki, Francisco Goya, Domínikos Theotokópoulos - El Greco, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Juan Gris, Antoine Gros, Georges Grosz, Armand Guillaumin, Zaha Hadid, Raymond Hains, Frans Hals, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Erich Heckel, Marteen van Heemskerk, Barbara Hepworth, Hannah Höch, Ferdinand Hodler, Josef Hoffmann, William Hogarth, Edward Hopper, Victor Horta, Richard Huelsenbeck, William Holman Hunt, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Johannes Itten, Alexej von Jawlenski, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris - Le Corbusier, Johan Bartold Jongkind, Jacob Jordaens, Wassily Kandinsky, Zoltán Kemény, Martin Kippenberger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Gustav Klimt, Franz Kline, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Jannis Kounellis, Lee Krasner-Pollock, Alfred Kubin, František Kupka, René Lalique, Mikhail Larionov, Maria Lassnig, Marie Laurencin, Henri Laurens, Bart van der Leck, Fernand Léger, Frederic Leighton, Sol Lewitt, Max Liebermann, Filippino Lippi, Filippo Lippi, Lazar Lissitzky - El Lissitzky, Adolf Loos, Claude Lorrain, August Macke, Carlo Maderno, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Louis Majorelle, Kasimir Malevitch, Édouard Manet, Henri Manguin, Andrea Mantegna, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Franz Marc, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Marino Marini, Albert Marquet, André Masson, Georges Matthieu, Henri Matisse, Konstantin Melnikov, Hans Memling, Adolf Menzel, Mario Merz, John Everett Millais, Jean-François Millet, Juan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Giorgio Morandi, Henry Moore, Gustave Moreau, Berthe Morisot, William Morris, Koloman Moser, Alfons Mucha, Bruno Munari, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Münter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Emil Nolde, Josef Maria Olbrich, Roman Opalka, John Opie, Meret Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Andrea Palladio, Max Pechstein, Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci - Perugino, Antoine Pevsner, Francis Picabia, Gian Battista Piranesi, Camille Pissaro, Sigmar Polke, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Piero del Pollaiuolo, Jackson Pollock, Jacopo da Pontormo, Lioubov Sergueyevna Popova, Nicolas Poussin, Ivan Albertovich Puni, Markus Raetz, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Ad Reinhardt, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Georges Rémi - Hergé, Guido Reni, Auguste Renoir, Joshua Reynolds, Germaine Richier, Gerrit Rietveld, Larry Rivers, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jacopo Robusti - Tintoretto, Alexander Rodchenko, Auguste Rodin, Mies van der Rohe, Félicien Rops, Medardo Rosso, Mimmo Rotella, Dieter Roth, Mark Rothko, Henri Rousseau, Théodore Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens, Andrei Rublev, Otto Runge, Santiago Rusiñol, Jacob Ruysdael, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Andrea Sansovino, Raffaello Sanzio - Raffaello, John Singer Sargent, Christian Schad, Egon Schiele, Karl Schinkel, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Kurt Schwitters, Gerge Segal, Giovanni Segantini, Georges Seurat, Gino Severini, Paul Signac, Luca Signorelli, Alfred Sisley, Robert Smithson, Jesús-Rafael Soto, Louis Soutter, Carl Spitzweg, Nicolas de Staël, Jan Steen, Théophile Steinlein, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, Clyfford Still, Théodore Stravinsky, George Stubbs, Franz von Stück, Thomas Sully, Chaïm Solomonovitch Sutin, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vladimir Tatlin, Jean Tinguely, Marko Tobey, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Quentin de la Tour, John Trumbull, Joseph Mallord William Tuner, Cy Twombly, Tristan Tzara, Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon, Félix Vallotton, Victor Vasarely, Tiziano Vecelli, Diego Vélasquez, Henry van de Velde, Willem van de Velde de Oude, Willem van de Velde de Jongere, Johannes Vermeer, Paolo Veronese, Andrea del Verrocchio, Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun, Jacques Villon, Leonardo da Vinci, Maurice Vlaminck, Wolf Vostell, Édouard Vuillard, Otto Wagner, Andy Warhol, Allston Washington, Antoine Watteau, David Weiss, Franz West, Rogier van der Weyden, James McNeill Whistler, Hannah Wilke, Rémy Zaugg, Johan Zoffany, Taddeo Zuccari.

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