Casablanca ArtWorks

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Casablanca ArtWorks was a Los Angeles art gallery founded in 1976 by Neil Bogart and Richard Trugman and a division of Casablanca Record & FilmWorks .

history

With the ulterior motive of getting Peter Mühldorfer , a Munich artist and friend at the time, Donna Summers , to move to Los Angeles with her, Bogart founded the Casablanca ArtWorks division in 1976, which was supposed to run a gallery. It was located at 812 North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Bogart bought a container full of works by the painter and sculptor Alexander Calder at a ridiculous price and offered Mühldorfer to exhibit his own works in the new gallery. When Calder died on November 11, 1976, the ArtWorks gallery was just opening; At the same time, however, it turned out that Calder had let other artists work for him, so that many things bore his name but did not come from him, which greatly reduced the value. Casablanca got out of the gallery, but Mühldorfer and Summer had actually moved to Los Angeles, and Bogart had achieved his destination.

Mühldorfer continued to run the gallery and, in addition to his own pictures, also showed works by Victor Vasarely and Richard Lindner . In 1979, after he and Donna Summer split up, he left the USA and went back to Germany.

literature

  • And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records ; Larry Harris, Curt Gooch, and Jeff Suhs; Backbeat Books, 2009; ISBN 978-0-87930-982-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from Peter Mühldorfer
  2. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records , p. 154