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Lothar Baumgarten

Lothar Baumgarten (born 1944) was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Düsseldorf. His work includes installation and film. Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited Brazil and Venezuela, and these visits resulted in works such as Terra Incognita, a three-dimensional diagram of the frontier between the two countries. He represented Germany at the 1984 Venice Biennale, where his work consisted of the names Amazonian peoples engraved on a marble floor and filled with resin.

Lothar Baumgarten (born 1944) was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Düsseldorf. His work includes installation and film. Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited Brazil and Venezuela, and these visits resulted in works such as Terra Incognita, a three-dimensional diagram of the frontier between the two countries. He represented Germany at the 1984 Venice Biennale, where his work consisted of the names Amazonian peoples engraved on a marble floor and filled with resin.

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** 2021 Stock. English Version ** The son of an anthropologist, Lothar Baumgarten spent several years living with an indigenous tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon region. In the late 1960s, he became one of the first artists to introduce representations of minority cultures into the Western cultural sphere. The contributors to this anthology offer different readings of Baumgarten's work, addressing the legacies of colonialism and modern anthropology, and also of documentary photography and site-spec…
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