Marfa (Texas)
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 Center with courthouse in the background |
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| Location of Marfa, Texas | |
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Presidio County |
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 19 ′ N , 104 ° 1 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 1,981 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 483.2 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 4.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 4.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 1428 m |
| Postal code : | 79843 |
| Area code : | +1 432 |
| FIPS : | 48-46620 |
| GNIS ID : | 1340942 |
| Website : | www.marfacc.com |
 Presidio County Courthouse |
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Marfa is a city in the south of the US state Texas and the county seat of Presidio County . Marfa is close to Big Bend National Park . Neighboring parishes are Alpine , Fort Davis , Valentine, and Presidio . The city was named after Marfa Petrovna , a female character from Dostoyevsky's novel Guilt and Atonement . Marfa became known worldwide through the visual artist Donald Judd , who founded the Chinati Foundation art center here in the 1970s .
history
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1920 | 3553 | - | |
| 1930 | 3909 | 10% | |
| 1940 | 3805 | -2.7% | |
| 1950 | 3603 | -5.3% | |
| 1960 | 2799 | -22.3% | |
| 1970 | 2682 | -4.2% | |
| 1980 | 2466 | -8.1% | |
| 1990 | 2424 | -1.7% | |
| 2000 | 2121 | -12.5% | |
| 2010 | 1981 | -6.6% | |
| 1920-2000, | |||
Marfa was established in 1883 as a water station for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway . It has developed into an artist town since the 1970s, after the American sculptor Donald Judd settled in Marfa and thereby made the city famous. His Chinati Foundation exhibits his own and significant groups of works by other artists in buildings at the former Fort Russell military base.
Exhibition building Ballroom Marfa
In recent years international artists have been able to present themselves in the multifunctional exhibition building Ballroom Marfa . The building is operated by the artist couple Elmgreen and Dragset .
traffic
US Highway 67 and US Highway 90 intersect in Marfa . About six kilometers north of the city center is the Marfa Municipal Airport , a commercial airport owned by Presidio County.
Others
- Giants , the last film with James Dean, was shot here.
- "Marfa Girl", Larry Clark's latest film, was shot entirely in Marfa.
- The music video for " On Hold " by the indie band " The xx " was shot in Marfa. The place name can be seen at the beginning of the video and several times in the course.
- Thomas Hettche's novel What We Are Made of is largely set in Marfa.
- Chris Kraus ' book I love Dick is set in Marfa.
- Hettche's photos from Marfa were shown in 2014 in the group exhibition Travel - Photos on the Road in the Modern Literature Museum in Marbach am Neckar , as well as in the FAZ on July 17, 2014, page R6 with the accompanying text by the author Auf Reisen. In Texas .
- Moondog Show , a band from Basel / Switzerland, released a CD called “Marfa” in 2007 - it contained the song The Marfa Queen about a girl from Marfa who fell in love with James Dean while filming Giant and mourned him to this day.
- Since 1944 there has been a camp for prisoners of war in Marfa. German prisoners of war painted an officer's mess with frescoes there in 1945 . In 1946 the camp was closed. The paintings were forgotten.
In 2001 Mona Blocker Garcia acquired the building and had it extensively restored. The wall frescoes have been a national monument since 2004 and are considered a sight.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ The xx: The xx - On Hold (Official Video). November 28, 2016, accessed December 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Fallen from Heaven , a trip to Marfa, Texas (Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 9, 2011)
- ↑ nps.gov: Texas
- ↑ atlasobscura.com: Building 98
