Kestnergesellschaft
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Kestner Gesellschaft is an art institution in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1916 to promote the arts. It is one of the largest art associations in Germany. The halls of the Goseriedebad, which once hou
Kestnergesellschaft, art institution in Hanover
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Kestnergesellschaft
…Marcel Duchamp and Horst Janssen (1965), Pablo Picasso (1973, 1993), Wolf Vostell (1977), Andy Warhol (1981 as his first retrospective in Germany, 2001) Jean-Michel Basquiat (1986 as the youngest at age 25, 1989), Georg Baselitz (1987), Joseph Beuys (1975, 1990), Richard Prince (1991), Rebecca Horn (1978, 1991, 1997), Antoni…
SAMO Xerox poster (1979)
From 1983 to 1988 Basquiat lived at 57 Great Jones Street in NoHo, where he died. A plaque commemorating his life was placed outside the building in 2016; the block was named "Jean-Michel Basquiat Way" in 2025.
Basquiat's grave at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York
Basquiat's drawing of art critic Rene Ricard, Untitled (Axe/Rene) (1984)