Keith Haring

The name of Keith Haring needs no introduction. The American artist, often titled among the most influential figures of the 20th century art, was born in 1958 in Reading (Pennsylvania) and died in 1990 in New York. Haring started his art education at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, later continued at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1978). There it became possible to young Haring to irreversibly transform visual arts and erase the borders between fine and street art. The artist was leaving his trails all over the world, beginning with the first ephemeral chalk drawings in subway and clubs, later extending his artistic repertoire with graffiti, paintings, collages, and photographs. Not only is he appreciated for his contribution to these genres, but also for his work as an activist; this aspect of his oeuvre was highlighted in the most recent retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Munich (2015), de Young Museum in San …show more content…
Stückgold studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1905-6) and painting in Munich (1907), and then he moved to Paris, quickly befriending figures such as Matisse and Rousseau, and immersed himself into the life of Parisian-based Polish-Jewish boheme. The following years, Stückgold lived in Hungary and Germany, where he participated in group shows at the Galerie Neue Kunst in Munich (1913, 1917) and Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin (1913). The artist was exhibited in a variety of venues, with his first and posthumous retrospective at the Galerie Bernheim in Paris (1933) and later expositions in Bonn, Munich, and Wiesbaden (1958-9). In recent years, the artist has been rediscovered and included in diverse group shows held by the Museum in Wiesbaden (2010), Colors Art Gallery in Bucharest (2012), and the Museum of Art in Olomouc