Kohlhöfer, Christof (1942 Frankfurt/Main - active in Los Angeles)

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Acrylic and spray paint/canvas, oT (gang of monkeys), pop art, unframed, approx. 115 x 150 cm, 1965-71 studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, master student with Karl Otto Goetz and Joseph Beuys, from 1967 acquaintance with Sigmar Polke, In 1969, in collaboration with Polke, the film "The whole body feels light and would like to fly", together with Polke, Kohlhöfer shaped the so-called "dynamic Düsseldorf art scene", 1974 Heinrich Heine sponsorship prize from the city of Düsseldorf, with Lothar Baumgarten, since 1999 Guest professorship in Los Angeles, exhibitions including 1976 "Venice Biennale", Venice, 1972/77 documenta, Kassel, 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005 Museum der Moderne Salzburg-Mönchsberg, Christof Kohlhöfer (also Kohlhofer) is one of the trend-setting Germans pop art artists