Anthony Caro

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Sir Anthony Caro Alfred CBE , OM (* 8. March 1924 in New Malden , Surrey ; † 23. October 2013 in London ) was a British sculptor of modernity , of the modern, abstract helped to shape sculpture and has significantly affected. Most of his work is made from reused materials, especially iron and steel, mostly from scrap.

life and work

Caro received his engineering degree from Cambridge University in 1944 and studied at the "Polytechnic Institute" in London in 1946 . He studied sculpture from 1947 to 1952 at the Royal Academy of Arts there . From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a collaborator for the sculptor Henry Moore . From 1953 to 1967 he taught at St. Martin's School of Art .

Caro's beginners' works were still figurative, mainly because the Royal Academy was one of the last art schools to be completely closed to modern, abstract art movements after World War II. His first stay in the United States, from 1959 to 1960, brought about a change in his career when he met the American sculptor David Smith . Anthony Caro was a participant in documenta III (1964) and the 4th documenta (1968) in Kassel .

Caro worked with the London-based engineering firm Arup and the architect Norman Foster on the planning of the Millennium Bridge , which connects St Paul's Cathedral on the north bank of the Thames with the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in the south.

Prizes and awards

Anthony Caro has received some of the UK's top honors throughout his career. Having been to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire had been appointed (CBE), Queen hit him Elizabeth II. In 1987 as a Knight Bachelor for Knight and appointed him in May 2000, also a member of the prestigious Order of Merit .

In 1992 Caro received the Praemium Imperiale in the sculpture category . Since 1979 he has been an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Anthony Caro and David Smith

It was the American critic Clement Greenberg who received Caro in the United States and encouraged him to orientate his artistic goals differently: from the traditionally working sculptor that he was to the avant-garde artist that he became. It was David Smith, in turn inspired by Pablo Picasso and Julio González , who had made Caro the first acquaintance with the so-called collage technique: sculpting with the design method of welding. His work was of course heavily influenced by Smith, but Caro was careful not to imitate Smith and developed his own personal style.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anthony Caro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Caro, Pioneering Scrap-Metal Sculptor, Dies at Age 89
  2. ^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 78 .
  3. ^ Honorary Members: Anthony Caro. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Caro, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caro, Anthony Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH New Malden , Surrey , England
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2013
Place of death London