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BERLIN -- German creator Günther Uecker, 1 of the country's astir important post-war artists who was world-famous for his large-format nail reliefs, has died. He was 95.
German quality bureau dpa reported that his household confirmed helium died astatine the assemblage infirmary successful his hometown of Düsseldorf successful occidental Germany Tuesday night. They did not springiness a origin of death.
For decades, Uecker, who was often dubbed “the nail artist,” created creation by hammering carpenter’s nails into chairs, pianos, sewing machines and canvases. His works tin beryllium recovered successful museums and collections crossed the globe.
In his creation work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves possibly beryllium perceived arsenic perchance assertive and hurtful, turned into harmonic, astir integrated creations. His reliefs with the tightly hewn nails are reminiscent of waving grasses oregon fields of algae successful a marine landscape.
Uecker himself described his nail creation arsenic diary-like landscapes of the soul, which helium called an “expression of the poetic powerfulness of man,” dpa reported.
Hendrik Wüst, the politician of North Rhine-Westphalia which includes authorities superior Düsseldorf, called Uecker “one of the astir important and influential artists successful German post-war history” and said that with his life’s work, helium influenced generations of young artists and “contributed to an unfastened and dynamic society."
Born connected March 13, 1930, successful the colony of Wendorf connected the Baltic Sea, Uecker moved to Düsseldorf successful the mid-1950s, wherever helium studied and aboriginal besides taught astatine the city's prestigious creation academy.
In 1 of his astir spectacular appearances oregon creation happenings, helium rode connected the backmost of a camel done the hallways of the venerable academy successful 1978. Together with chap creator Gerhard Richter, helium “occupied” the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden depository successful 1968, with some kissing successful beforehand of the cameras.
The lad of a farmer, helium traveled the satellite with a humanitarian connection of bid and exhibited successful countless countries, including dictatorships and totalitarian states. He painted ash pictures aft the Chernobyl atomic disaster successful Ukraine successful 1986, and exhibited quality rights messages painted connected cloth successful Beijing.
He besides painted “Verletzungswörter,” oregon words of violence, sidesplitting and torment successful galore languages and overseas scripts connected ample canvases. In 2023, Uecker erected a chromatic memorial successful Weimar successful representation of the victims of the Nazi attraction campy Buchenwald.
“The taxable of my creator enactment is the vulnerability of antheral by man,” helium said.
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