Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. [1] [2] His works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in many important public collections, including the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou . Per Kirkeby, who has died aged 79, was one of the great experimenters of the so-called neo-expressionist style of painting. Alongside artists including Georg Baselitz and AR Penck, he.
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Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. View Per Kirkeby's 1,956 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Biography Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. His works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in many important public collections, including the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou. Per Kirkeby Danish, 1938-2018 Following Follow 1.9k Follower s Inspired by his early training as a geologist, Per Kirkeby made quasi-abstract paintings of landscapes. He was influenced by the gestural works of mid-century Abstract Expressionism and was often labeled a Neo-Expressionist. The artist rendered his. See all past shows and fair booths Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. His works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in many important public collections, including the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou. Kirkeby became a member of the Danish Academy in 1982.
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Per Kirkeby (19382018)
Per Kirkeby, a Danish artist who trained as a geologist before turning to painting quasi-abstract landscapes that were often characterized as Neo-Expressionist, died on May 9 at his home in. Per Kirkeby, Pioneering Neo-Expressionist Painter, Dies at 79 By Alex Greenberger May 9, 2018 6:26pm Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1999, oil on canvas. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MICHAEL WERNER, NEW. CV Per Kirkeby was a Danish painter, sculptor and writer. In 1962 he entered the Eksperimenterende Kunst-skole (Experimental Art School) in Copenhagen. His first important one-man exhibition abroad was at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, in 1977. He later exhibited widely at public and commercial galleries throughout Europe and the USA. Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. September 1, 1938) is an accomplished painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Kirkeby was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he studied geology at the University of Copenhagen, graduating with a master's degree in 1964.
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People Per Kirkeby, Polymathic Danish Artist Who Mixed Neo-Expressionism and Nature, Has Died The painter, poet, filmmaker and sculptor was 79 years old. Naomi Rea, May 10, 2018 Danish artist Per Kirkeby poses in his exhibition in Duesseldorf, Germany, 24 September 2009. Photo by Federico Gambarini ©DPA Picture Alliance Archive Alamy. In 1962, Kirkeby enrolled in the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen and began to exhibit his art in 1964. He was a member of the Fluxus group, a loosely organized, international group of avant-garde artists who worked in a wide range of media in the 1960s and 70s, emphasizing improvisation, everyday experience, and audience involvement.
Per Kirkeby is a household name in his native Denmark, and remains one of their best known contemporary artists. His lush, huge paintings, full of colour and movement, draw you into his mystical surroundings and abstract world. Per Kirkeby Artworks: From Painting to Bricks Though at first glance, Kirkeby's paintings and brick sculptures appear to have little in common, the artist insisted that they share common ground. Both explore qualities of structure, space, and surface, while the strata of materials and motifs in both mediums recall Kirkeby's training as a.
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Per Kirkeby (19382018) , Untitled Christie's
Exhibitions Galleries Magazine Per Kirkeby Biography As one of Denmark's most significant international contemporary artists, Per Kirkeby's artistic career spanning over 50 years traversed the diverse fields of geology, painting, architecture, sculpture, film, writing, printmaking, graphics, and ballet set design. Per Kirkeby - Geological Messages: Paintings from 1963-2015, Michael Werner Gallery, London PLANET B. Climate change and the new sublime, Palazzo Bollani, Venice Per Kirkeby - Geological Messages: Paintings from 1965-2015, Michael Werner Gallery, New York Zwölf herausragende historische Bilder, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne. 2023
