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Biography |
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1904 |
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Born in Leipzig |
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1922 |
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Shows a commitment to pictorial abstraction |
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1925 - 1929 |
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Studies at the Fine Art Academy in Dresden and Munich |
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1935 |
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Moves to Paris |
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1939 |
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Goes to war in North Africa in the Foreign Legion against the Germans |
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1946 |
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Obtains French nationality |
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1955 |
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Participation in the first Documenta ( Kassel) |
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1961 |
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New period in his work with scratchings in the still-wet paint |
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1970 |
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Receives the Grand Prix des Beaux-Arts from the city of Paris |
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1988 |
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Retrospective at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrare |
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1989 |
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Died in Antibes |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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1948 |
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Galerie Lydia Conti. Paris (solo) |
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