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Jean Tinguely

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Birth Date:
22.05.1925
Death date:
30.08.1991
Categories:
Artist, Painter, Sculptor
Nationality:
 swiss
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Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.

Life

Born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.

His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.

Tinguely married fellow Swiss artist Eva Aeppli in 1951. In 1971, Tinguely married his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle.

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Niki de Saint PhalleNiki de Saint PhalleWife29.10.193021.05.2002
        2Eva AeppliEva AeppliWife02.05.192504.05.2015
        3Jean RochefortJean RochefortCoworker29.04.193009.10.2017

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