| 1921 | Martin Matschinsky born in Grötzingen |
| 1923 | Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff born in Berlin |
| 1938-40 | Photographer apprenticeship MM |
| 1948-50 | MM Co-founder and actor of the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich |
| 1949 | BM Co-founder of the artist group ZEN 49 in Munich; assistant to Henry Moore and Antoine Pevsner |
| 1952-54 | BM Stage designer at the Theater Darmstadt; 1952 acquaintance with MM, whom she encourages to sculpture |
| 1955 | Marriage; joint work |
| 1959/64 | Participation in Documenta II and III |
| 1961 | Paris |
| 1969 | Berlin |
| from 1970 | joint works under the name Matschinsky-Denninghoff |
| 1994 | move to Schönfeld |
| 2011 | BM died in Berlin |
ARTISTS
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Art after 1945
Brigitte und Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff
Available works
Pairs of artists are not rare in the 20th century, but that they work together in a working unit is not too common. We find 'institutional' communities in conceptual art (Christo & Jeanne-Claude), in photography (Bernd and Hilla Becher) or in performance (Eva and Adele), sometimes also in sculpture: here Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff, who usually only went by their last names, are the best-known two-person team. The artists became known for their steel tube bundles - in public spaces as well as in more delicate rod objects for interiors.
Matschinsky-Denninghoff's sculptures are an impressive example of the possibilities of informal sculpture. The artists call their works "dance-like, buoyant spatial figurations." Their work is influenced by the classic basic theme of sculpture: the dialogue between body and space. The artist duo Matschinsky-Denninghoff tried, to speak with Paul Klee, not to make nature visible, but the forces behind it. The artists themselves formulate their concern as follows: "We basically work like nature, by building and joining, but with the help of twentieth-century technology." 
Untitled, 2002
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Tuesday – Friday 11 – 19
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