Dieter Roth (1930)
Germany, Switzerland


Biography :

Dieter Roth (1930 - 1998) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, collage artist, poet, diarist, graphic designer, editor, filmmaker and musician, Swiss German artist, Dieter Roth, has been described as "a performance artist in all mediums that he touched.” Everything Roth has done involves enacting a central concept of art and life that is absolutely indivisible – a unique enterprise in which material matter is subject to the emotional and sensual experience for which it exists.


These partners included figures such as Richard Hamilton, Emmett Williams, Arnulf Rainer and Hermann Nitsch. But it is Roth’s long, symbiotic collaboration with his own son, the artist Björn Roth, that testifies to the enormous and enduring power of his restless, relentless process.


Dieter Roth's works have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and retrospectives around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Fashion Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the art museum in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Museum of Modern Art, PS 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Queens, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille, France, and many others. In 1982, Roth represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale. She received several distinctions throughout her life, including the prestigious Swiss Caran d'Ache Fine Arts Prize in 1991. Since her death in 1998, a foundation and museum dedicated to her work, The Dieter Roth Foundation and Museum, have been created in Hamburg, Germany.

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