Gustav Metzger
1926–2017
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Biography
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was an 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.
Metzger was recognised for his protests in the political and artistic realms.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Gustav Metzger Liquid Crystal Environment
1965, remade 2005 -
Gustav Metzger Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art
1960, remade 2004, 2015 -
Gustav Metzger Painting on Cardboard
c.1961–2 -
Gustav Metzger Table
c.1957–8 -
Gustav Metzger To Crawl into - Anschluss, Vienna, March 1938
1996 -
Gustav Metzger Homage to the Starving Poet
1951 -
Gustav Metzger Head
c.1953–9 -
Gustav Metzger Projects Unrealised 1
1971, 1998
Film and audio
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TateShots
Gustav Metzger on Life and Art
'All I can say is this totality of life, whatever that might mean, this attempt to grasp what is important, … -
TateShots
Gustav Metzger: Festival of missed fits
The Germna artist's career has spanned sixty years of art and political activism -
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Talking Art: Gustav Metzger
After a career spanning decades, Gustav Metzger is now in greater demand than ever, generating new projects as for Münster …
Features
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Art Term
Auto-destructive art
Auto-destructive art is a term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s to describe radical artworks made … -
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When art meets technology …
To coincide with IK Prize 2016 winner Recognition, we take a look at a few artists who have used machines … -
Tate Papers
Waste to Monument: John Latham’s Niddrie Woman: Art & Environment
John Latham’s Artist Placement Group residency at the Scottish Office’s Development Agency in 1975–6 led to a series of proposals … -
Tate Etc
You saw it here first
Find out which four trail-blazing galleries introduced Britain to the international avant-garde -
Tate Etc
New journeys in a teeming universe: Tate Triennial
On the eve of Tate Britain’s Triennial, Andrew Hunt explores the themes proposed by its curator, Nicholas Bourriaud.
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