Dieter Wagner (artist)
Dieter Wagner (born October 23, 1943 in Konstanz ) is a German painter and conceptual artist.
Life
After studying at the Art Academy in Wuppertal, Wagner worked from 1966 to 1996 as a freelance artist and cartoonist, alternating between Paris, Berlin and Chicago. Various visiting professorships in the USA and his series of pictures of the gardens in which there are no longer borders gave Wagner a reputation as a political utopian. The artist's best-known works include the Crescendo building project and the experimental film La Gloire est le Soleil des Morts, based on his sculpture street Les Anges, premiered at the 30th Cannes International Film Festival in 1977 .
In 1997 he founded on the site of the brick factory in the village of Klausdorf the municipality Am Mellensee in Brandenburg Teltow-Fläming the Atelier Z , it acts as its director until today. Dieter Wagner left works to the German Film and Television Academy Berlin as well as to the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Berlin City Mission.
Exhibitions
Dieter Wagner looks back on more than 30 years of exhibition career. The galleries and museums that showed his work include the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm , the North German State Museum in Hamburg , the Galerie du Crédit Agricole in Orange , and the Galerie Karasek in Versailles , the Timothy Andron Gallery in Houston , the La Tour de Nesle Gallery in Paris and many others. Works by the artist were also shown at the Center des Congrès in Monaco , Northwestern University in Chicago , Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin , Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin and the International Design Foundation in Tokyo .
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| SURNAME | Wagner, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constance , Germany |