ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Antoni Tàpies i Puig


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1923Born in Barcelona
1928-32attended the German school Escuela alemana
1942first drawings during convalescence after pneumonia; interest in philosophy
1943-46Studies law at the Universitat de Barcelona, abandons in favor of painting (Surrealism, Dada, Existentialism)
1948Founds the artists' group "Dau as Set
1950Scholarship enables a stay in Paris (inspiration by social realism, Informel, Art Brut); acquaintance with Picasso, Fontana, Vedova, Luigi Nono, Marcel Duchamp, etc.
1958Participation in the Venice Biennale
1959/64/68/77Participation in the documenta in Kassel; acquaintance with Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell et al.
1963in St. Gallen acquaintance with Eugène Ionesco, Friedrich Dürrenmatt; beginning of extensive lithographic work
1984Founded the "Fundació Antoni Tàpies" in Barcelona; closeness to Zen Buddhism and mysticism
2012died in Barcelona
 
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