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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 eighty 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 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, David d'Angers, 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, 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 and Bernhard Blume, Umberto Boccioni, Arnold Böcklin, Alighiero Boetti, Rosa Bonheur, Richard Parkes Bonington, Pierre Bonnard, Marius Borgeaud, Francesco Borromini, Sandro Botticelli, Eugène Boudin, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Gyula Halász - 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, Antonio Canova, 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, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris - Le Corbusier, 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, Óscar Domínguez, Donato Donatello, Gustave Doré, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Raoul Dufy, François Dufrêne, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Albrecht Dürer, Antoon van Dyck, Adam Elsheimer, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Alexandra Exter, Hubert van Eyck, Henri Fantin-Latour, Lyonel Feininger, Anselm Feuerbach, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Jean-Louis Forain, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Lucian Freud, Caspar David Friedrich, Achille-Émile Othon Friesz - Othon Friesz, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Thomas Gainsborough, Émile Gallé, Antoni Gaudí, Théodore Géricault, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Alberto Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Diego Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Hans Ruedi Giger, Luca Giordano, 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, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri dit Guercino, Zaha Hadid, Raymond Hains, Frans Hals, Simon Hantaï, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Erich Heckel, Marteen van Heemskerk, Barbara Hepworth, Georges Rémi - Hergé, 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, Johan Bartold Jongkind, Jacob Jordaens, Michel Journiac, 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, Maximilien Luce, August Macke, Carlo Maderno, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Louis Majorelle, Kasimir Malevitch, Édouard Manet, Henri Manguin, Andrea Mantegna, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Franz Marc, Hans von Marées, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Marino Marini, Albert Marquet, André Masson, Georges Matthieu, Henri Matisse, Ludwig Meidner, Konstantin Melnikov, Hans Memling, Anton Raphael Mengs, Adolf Menzel, Mario Merz, Pierre Mignard, John Everett Millais, Jean-François Millet, Juan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Giorgio Morandi, Henry Moore, Gustave Moreau, Berthe Morisot, William Morris, Koloman Moser, Alfons Mucha, Bruno Munari, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Münter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Aurélie Nemours, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Hermann Nitsch, Kenneth Noland, Emil Nolde, Josef Maria Olbrich, Roman Opalka, John Opie, Meret Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Andrea Palladio, Gina Pane, Max Pechstein, Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci dit 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, Raffaello Sanzio - Raffaello, Emmanuel Radnitsky - Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Ad Reinhardt, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Rembrandt, Guido Reni, Auguste Renoir, Joshua Reynolds, Germaine Richier, Gerrit Rietveld, Larry Rivers, Hubert Robert, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 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, John Singer Sargent, Christian Schad, Egon Schiele, Karl Schinkel, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Kurt Schwitters, Gerge Segal, Giovanni Segantini, Georges Seurat, Gino Severini, Paul Signac, Luca Signorelli, Alfred Sisley, Robert Smithson, Jesús-Rafael Soto, Pierre Soulages, 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, Jacopo Robusti - Tintoretto, Tiziano Vecelli - Titien, Mark 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, Willy Guggenheim - Varlin, Victor Vasarely, 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 Villeglé, Jacques Villon, Leonardo da Vinci, Maurice Vlaminck, Wolf Vostell, Édouard Vuillard, Otto Wagner, Andy Warhol, Allston Washington, Antoine Watteau, David Weiss, Marianne Werefkin, Franz West, Rogier van der Weyden, James McNeill Whistler, Hannah Wilke, Rémy Zaugg, Johan Zoffany, Taddeo Zuccari.

 

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