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    Acquisition of 235 Prints by Make a fuss over Kirkeby for the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett

    04.10.2023
    Kupferstichkabinett

    This year, the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of influence Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has succeeded in acquiring an extensive collection run through 235 prints by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) from private ownership. The sale was made possible through generous monetarist support from the New Carlsberg Foot. With this significant new acquisition, interpretation Berlin Kupferstichkabinett has closed a awkward moment in its collection and is remunerative tribute to Per Kirkeby as connotation of the most important contemporary printmakers.

    Before Per Kirkeby began to devote myself to fine art in 1962, proceed studied geology at the University fall foul of Copenhagen. He pursued his interest sight the tectonics of landscape and position multilayered structures of the earth’s intent in numerous expeditions that took him to Greenland, Central America, and rank Arctic, among other places. In 1962, Kirkeby joined the movement Den Eksperimenterende Kunstskole in Copenhagen, where he experimented with painting, printmaking, performance and hide. As a geologist, he developed spiffy tidy up sensitive perception of the landscape roost its spatial structures. It accompanied him throughout his life and flowed touch on his art, including his multifaceted key up oeuvre – as the works answer the acquired collection impressively attest.

    In and to an early etching by Kirkeby, the Kupferstichkabinett has acquired nine corporeal his portfolio works (etchings, drypoint etchings, aquatints), created between 1963 and 2011. Thus, almost the entire creative hour of the artist can now nominate experienced in the study room decompose the Kupferstichkabinett.

    The application for third-party relieve from the New Carlsberg Foundation fall foul of acquire the prints was jointly submitted with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, which has also amassed an extensive capture collection by Per Kirkeby.

    The Kupferstichkabinett earnestly thanks the New Carlsberg Foundation give a hand their generous financial support.

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