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Mark Tobey Biographie
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1890 |
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Born in Centerville, WI, USA on December 11th
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1906 |
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His family moved to Hammond near Chicago; visited courses at the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
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1906 - 1908 |
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Studied under Frank Zimmerman and Professor Reynolds at the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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1909 |
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Worked as fashion-designer in Chicago, IL
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1911 |
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Moved to New York, still working as fashion-designer
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1913 - 1917 |
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Lived alternately in New York, NY and in Chicago; autodidactic artistic studies; has success as a portraitist
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1922 - 1925 |
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Studied calligraphy and composition under Teng Kwei, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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1926 |
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Traveled to Akka and Haifa; studied Persian and Arabian literature
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1927 |
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Lived alternately in Seattle, Chicago and New York
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1934 |
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Travelled to China and Japan; spent time in a cloister of the Zen-Buddhism and studies Zen-painting and calligraphy
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1935 |
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Trips to Seattle and New York; back in South-England he created the first 'white writing'
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1931 - 1938 |
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Lived in England
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1940 |
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Studied music (flute, piano, composition); friendship with Lyonel Feininger
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1940 |
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Katherine Baker Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum
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1942 |
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His painting 'Broadway' was honoured and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
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1942 |
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Artists for Victory Prize
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1956 |
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Guggenheim International Award
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1956 |
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Honorary Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters
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1957 |
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Fine Arts Medal, American Institute of Architects
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1958 |
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First Prize for Painting, Biennale, Venice
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1961 |
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First Prize for Painting, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
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1968 |
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Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
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1970 - 1976 |
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Lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland
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1976 |
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Died in Basel, Switzerland on April, 24th
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2009
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Synchronies: Undercurrrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
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2008
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Auktion 27, Lehr, Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin
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2008
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Künstler der Galerie - Zeichnungen, Bilder, Skulpturen, Fotografien, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
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2007
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Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, USA Le Corps et son double, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France The Passionate Gesture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Jan Bouman Collection, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, USA Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggart Galeries, New York, NY American Modernists, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, USA
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2006
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La Tentation de l'Orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany Wilfrid Moser/Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga GmbH, Basel, Switzerland Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Collection 1, NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan
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2005
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Light Space, Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, USA
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2005
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Internationale Zeichnungen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
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2004
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Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany (solo) An American Odyssey, 1950-1980 - Debating Modernism, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain; Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruna, Spain Onbegrensd – Unbegrenzt - Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen, Belgium Chine - Occident ou l'aventure du signe. Michaux, Tobey, Degottex, Zao Wou-Ki, Shan Sa - Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain The Edge of Tomorrow - Tobey, Price and Graves from the 1940’s, Museum of Art, University of Oregon; San José Museum of Art, CA, USA
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2003
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Unaussprechlich schön - Das mystische Paradies in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany Two Friends - Lyonel Feininger, Mark Tobey, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY Northwest Mythologies - The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson, Tacoma Art Museum, WA, USA La collection Jean Planque, Salle St. Jean, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France Separated Colours of Hachmeister, Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany Acquisitions Nouvelles, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland Abstract works on paper, autour de Mark Tobey, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
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2002 - 2003
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Mark Tobey - Smashing Forms and Mark Tobey and Friends, Seattle Art, WA, USA
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2002
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Tobey – Price – Graves, University of Oregon Museum of Art, OR, USA Klänge des Inneren Auges. Mark Tobey – Morris Graves – John Cage, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Museum Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo) Mark Tobey - Bilder von 1940 bis 1975, BAUKUNST GALERIE, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2001 - 2002
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Da Kandinsky a Pollock: La vertigine della non-forma, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, Switzerland
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2001
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (solo) Galerie Carzaniga + Uecker, Basel, Switzerland (solo) Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany (solo) Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany (solo) The spirituality of the void, Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain Asian Influences I, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, WA, USA Hue, Schmidt Bingham Galleries, New York, NY
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2000
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Zen und die westliche Kunst, Museum Bochum, Germany Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, WA, USA (solo) Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany (solo) Native American Influences on 1930s & 1940s Modernists, David FIndlay Jr. FIne Art, New York, NY Cross-Currents in Modern Art, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
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1999
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Galerie Carzaniga + Uecker, Basel, Switzerland (solo) Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (solo) Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, WA, USA (solo)
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1998 - 1999
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Closeness of Distance, Khmer Skulpturen und Mark Tobey Bilder, Emil Mirzakhanian, Milan, Italy and Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany
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1998
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Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, WA, USA (solo) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (solo) Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1996
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Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
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1992 - 1993
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Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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1991 - 1992
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Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxemberg
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1991
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Valley Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, USA
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1990
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Galerie Jeanne Bucher, FIAC, Paris, France
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1977
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"Mark Tobey Retrospective", Ruth S. Shaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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1974
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Retrospective, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, USA
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1968
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Retrospective, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, USA
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1967
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY
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1966
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
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1962
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1961
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Retrospective, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, subsidiary of the Louvre, Paris, France
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1952
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film “Tobey Mark: Artist” debuted in the Venice Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival
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1951
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(first retrospective), California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (group)
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1945
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA (solo)
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| Littérature |
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2004
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Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Mark Tobey Light Space, Muenster 2004
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1991
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Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Mark Tobey Werke / Oeuvres 1945-1975, Muenster 1991
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