Heinz Mack valuation
Co-founder of the ZERO movement, known for light reliefs, kinetic works, outdoor sculpture and vivid colour paintings.
Heinz Mack was born in Lollar, in Hesse, in 1931 and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1950 to 1956.
What a work by Heinz Mack is worth
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Bio
Heinz Mack was born in Lollar, in Hesse, in 1931 and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1950 to 1956. In 1957 he and Otto Piene began a series of evening exhibitions in their Düsseldorf studio which grew, with Günther Uecker, into the group ZERO and an international movement that took in Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Jean Tinguely. His work with light, reflection and movement made him a central figure of op, light and kinetic art, in reliefs that catch and break up light, rotating light dynamos and monumental outdoor sculptures. He showed at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1970, and since 1991 he has also made brightly coloured abstract paintings in acrylic.
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