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Background
- Born in
- Nuremberg
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Facing up to the Nazis and the powers of the Nazi state coloured my life as an artist."
"Auto-destructive art is conceived as a desperate last-minute subversive political weapon used by artists. It is an attack on the Capitalist system and the production of war materials. It is committed …"
"I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project."
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Timeline
1926
Born
Birth2017
Died
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