Sol LeWitt

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Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was an American painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He is considered a pioneer of conceptual art and an important representative of minimal art. His work is characterized by his exploration of geometric forms and bodies, which he implemented both sculpturally (as so-called ‘structures’) as well as in wall drawings and on paper.

Biography

*1928, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. † 2007, New York, USA.

Biography

1945 – 1949Syracuse University, New York, USA
1953Cartoonists and Illustrator School / School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

EXHIBITIONS IN GALERIE KLÜSER AND KLÜSER 2

2023DRAWING ROOMS, Group Show
2018ABSTRACT/ION, Group Show

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2016Collection: Sol LeWitt and Photography, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2014Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #370, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2013Sol LeWitt Collectionneur: Un Artiste et Ses Artistes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2012Colours, Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2009Artists Rooms: Sol Lewitt, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2008Focus: Sol LeWitt, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
2004Wall, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2003Wall Drawing, Kunstammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
2002Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2001Wall Drawing, Williams College Museum of Art, Washington, DC, USA
2000Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
1999Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
1997100 Cubes, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria; Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Stadtliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
1996Prints: 1970–1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
1995Styrofoam Wall Pieces, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg,Germany
199425 Years of Wall Drawings 1969–1994’, RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1993Structures 1962–1993, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1992Drawings 1958–1992, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Muenster, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France; Fundació Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
1991Wall Drawing, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
1989Wall Drawings, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1988Wall Drawings: Continuous Forms, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
1987ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1986Prints 1970–1986, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1985Pyramid: A Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
1984Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1983Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1981Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
1978Hallen für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1977Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
1976Incomplete Open Cubes, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1975Wall Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1974Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1973Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, USA
1972Arcs, from corners & sides, circles, & grids and all their combinations, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1970Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
1969Sculptures and Wall Drawings, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

COLLECTIONS

Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate, London, United Kingdom
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
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