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The pop art artist first attracted attention with groups of toys. Later, she focused on the portraits and the theme of the city. She dies in Berlin
The artist Christa Dichgans dies in Berlin at the age of 78 years. She was considered one of the most important female representatives of pop art.
As announced Tuesday at its Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, the Berliner died Saturday of a long, serious illness. First, the "Tagesspiegel" had reported
The Dichgans were known very early for their images on the theme of pop art accumulations of toys that came from New York. Later, she focuses on portraits and often on the theme of the city. "During their pictorial development, battlefields – also of lived life" – were born from accumulations of toys during their pictorial development.
Born in 1940 in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, Dichgans studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. After her stays in New York and Florence, she returned to Berlin
. In 2010, his work is presented in the influential exhibition "Power Up Female Popart" at the Kunsthalle Wien. The Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover honored the work of his life in a retrospective at the beginning of this year.
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