Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator.
Arnold was born in
Kassel, Germany. From 1928 to 1933, he worked as a painter and university lecturer in Berlin. However, when the
Nazi
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s came to power they banned him from his profession. He returned to his home town of Kassel following the war.
Bode organized the first ''
documenta'' exhibition in Kassel in 1955.
This featured a broad overview of 20th-century art using large spaces in an innovative way.
It was an unprecedented success.
Frieze Magazine
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History
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claims: 'documenta’s singularity becomes clear in comparison with the
Venice Biennale
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, which began in 1895 and inspired the
Bienal de São Paulo in 1951 before spawning endless copies across the globe in the 1990s. After the first national pavilion was built in 1907 by Belgium in the
Giardini, the Biennale became a battleground between countries, their artists and their pavilions: an Olympics of art. By contrast, documenta’s internationalism remains rooted in the failures of nationalism: the defeat and material hardship wrought by National Socialism and the repressed shame surrounding the Holocaust.'
Bode organized three more ''documenta'' exhibitions, finishing with ''documenta 4''. Others have since continued to produce regular ''documenta'' exhibitions in Kassel. Bode received the German
Federal Cross of Merit in 1974.
Bode's daughter is
Renee Nele.
See also
*
List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
A
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
References
Arnold Bode ''documenta'' archives
German art curators
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
1900 births
1977 deaths
Architects from Kassel
Artists from Kassel
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