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1. www.frieze.com › article › gerhard-rühm-gustav-metzgerGerhard Rühm / Gustav Metzger | Frieze

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   Looking back today, it’s clear that subsequent shows of Metzger’s works, as at dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, have almost turned on its head Metzger’s image as a political artist and activist. In Kassel, there were numerous vitrine tables containing relatively conventional drawings and oil sketches from his student days.

2. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-cumbria-58829614Merz Barn exhibition unites two pioneering modern artists - BBC

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   Oct 9, 2021 · Two artists who fled to the UK from Nazi Germany in the 1930s are to have their link commemorated in a special exhibition in the Lake District. Two works by Gustav Metzger will be on show at...

3. www.forbes.com › 21 › and-then-came-gustav-metzgerAnd Then Came Gustav Metzger - Forbes

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   Oct 21, 2024 · Metzger also began a series of installations called Historical Photographs which took images, some well-known such as pictures from the Warsaw Ghetto, or of victims on the ramp to their...

4. www.ft.com › content › 21a00035-9b2e-4516-88b2-a8f26Gustav Metzger — the art of auto-destruction - Financial Times

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   Aug 16, 2021 · His best-known innovation was what he called “auto-destructive art”, works that decayed as a direct result of their making. The artist photographed by by Ida Kar in 1962 © Ida Kar/National ...

5. www.apollo-magazine.com › gustav-metzger-1926-2017Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) - Apollo Magazine

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   Mar 6, 2017 · Gustav Metzger, the soft-spoken activist with a revolutionary art agenda, died last week at the age of 90. The pioneer of Auto-Destructive and Auto-Creative Art rejected the art world and invented the ‘art strike’, while his Historic Photographs series of installations are among the most powerful works to have born witness to the tumultuous ...

6. repository.derby.ac.uk › downloadIn Advance of the Broken Image: Gerhard Richter and Gustav ...

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   This chapter will explore the meaning of these types of images, includ-ing photographic portraits, photographs of atrocity and media images and will ask how they have been re-appropriated in artistic interventions to instigate cultural as opposed to legal confrontations with Nazi criminality.

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   Who was Gustav Metzger?

   • Two works by Gustav Metzger will be on show at the Merz Barn in Elterwater, the original site of a famous and unfinished work by Kurt Schwitters. He settled there after being branded a "degenerate" artist by the Nazis. Although Metzger, who arrived on the Kindertransport aged 13 in 1939, never met him, he was influenced by his art.

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   Why did Metzger create historical photographs?

   • Metzger also began a series of installations called Historical Photographs which took images, some well-known such as pictures from the Warsaw Ghetto, or of victims on the ramp to their deaths in Auschwitz, blown up and installed with other elements in such a way to force a greater confrontation between viewer and image.

   And Then Came Gustav Metzger

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   Why did Albert Metzger come to Germany?

   • He settled there after being branded a "degenerate" artist by the Nazis. Although Metzger, who arrived on the Kindertransport aged 13 in 1939, never met him, he was influenced by his art. The exhibition establishes a "conversation between these two artists and their pioneering artistic practices".

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   Why did Metzger call for an 'art strike'?

   • He believed artists would be better off forming their own cooperatives and offer their work directly for sale. At one point, as a protest against artists’ lack of agency, Metzger called for an “Art Strike” – artists would refuse to make art for three years in order to bring the system to its knees.

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   How did Metzger feel about galleries and art fairs?

   • Metzger felt the explosion of galleries and art fairs created a false demand “to bring out something new to attract the attention of the curators, or the critics, or the owners of galleries.” He believed artists would be better off forming their own cooperatives and offer their work directly for sale.

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   Who were Gustav Metzger and Kurt Schwitters?

   • Two artists who fled to the UK from Nazi Germany in the 1930s are to have their link commemorated in a special exhibition in the Lake District. Two works by Gustav Metzger will be on show at the Merz Barn in Elterwater, the original site of a famous and unfinished work by Kurt Schwitters.

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8. www.tate.org.uk › art › artistsGustav Metzger 1926–2017 - Tate

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   Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966.