Marcel Broodthaers mit seiner Tochter Marie-Puck 1972 in Kassel

by Benjamin Katz

Provenance: Van Ham Kunstauktionen / Gerd Sander Collection /////// Benjamin Katz became known as a companion of art in West Germany in the 1980s. He portrayed artists such as Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars, A.R. Penck, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel - Here you see Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), who formulated a critical and idiosyncratic position within the milieu of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art. Within a short time, Broodthaers received emphatic acclaim on the avant-garde art scene with the institution-critical, installation, and cinematographic works that have established him as a figure of fundamental importance for the visual art in the 20th and early 21st centuries.