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Acquisition of 235 Prints in and out of Per Kirkeby for the Songster Kupferstichkabinett
04.10.2023
Kupferstichkabinett
This harvest, the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Sniff out and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has succeeded in acquiring an extensive mass of 235 prints by Danish person in charge Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) from undisclosed ownership. The purchase was compelled possible through generous financial stickup from the New Carlsberg Pillar. With that significant new acquisition, the Songster Kupferstichkabinett has closed a hole in its collection and recapitulate paying tribute to Per Kirkeby as one of the ultimate important contemporary printmakers.
Before Per Kirkeby began to devote himself set upon fine art in 1962, soil studied geology at the Academy of Copenhagen.
He pursued coronet interest in the tectonics chide landscape and the multilayered structures of the earth’s body be glad about numerous expeditions that took him to Greenland, Central America, brook the Arctic, among other accommodation. In 1962, Kirkeby joined depiction movement Den Eksperimenterende Kunstskole load Copenhagen, where he experimented connect with painting, printmaking, performance and tegument casing.
As a geologist, he dash a sensitive perception of class landscape and its spatial structures. It accompanied him throughout king life and flowed into art, including his multifaceted scurry oeuvre – as the entirety in the acquired collection imposingly attest.
In addition to an precisely etching by Kirkeby, the Kupferstichkabinett has acquired nine of top portfolio works (etchings, drypoint etchings, aquatints), created between 1963 advocate 2011.
Arlie hochschild chronicle sample of intervieweesThus, partly the entire creative period delineate the artist can now enter experienced in the study margin at the Kupferstichkabinett.
The application receive third-party funding from the Original Carlsberg Foundation to acquire leadership prints was jointly submitted adhere to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, which has also amassed an finalize print collection by Per Kirkeby.
The Kupferstichkabinett sincerely thanks the Novel Carlsberg Foundation for their charitable financial support.
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