documenta 1959

 

Nineteen fifty-nine – The summer in which documenta founder Arnold Bode and art historian Werner Haftmann make their dream of an exhibition in Kassel a reality for the second time.

 The first documenta, which took place in 1955, had offered an overview of the first half of the 20th century. Now the focus will be resolutely on the present. The motto for the second international exhibition is “Art after 1945”...

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documenta 1955

 

In 1955 Arnold Bode, a Professor of Art and a designer, made his dream come true: an exhibition according to European Art Development in the twentieth century..

 

Der Jakobssegen

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656

 

Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

 

すでに2億年の間、

海洋で働いている

小さな建築家たち．

 

これらの単細胞植物が

驚くべき能力をもっている．

彼らは珪酸塩を使って、

彼らが住んでいる

細身の封筒を作ります。

彼らの住居の大きさは、

人間の髪の毛の厚さの1/5です。...