Christa Dichgans (1940-2018) was a German painter, associated with the Pop Art movement.

Biography

Dichgans was born in

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in 1940 and studied painting at the

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, Berlin and the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). In 1966 she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and moved to

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, returning to Europe to live in Rome the following year. From 1972 on she lived in Berlin and La Haute Carpénée in the south of France. Between 1984 and 1988, she worked as assistant to Georg Baselitz at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. Dichgans died in 2018 in Berlin.

Public collections

Her work is held in a number of public collections including: *Kirchliches Museen

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*Kunstverein Schloß

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*Neue Nationalgalerie.

*Sammlung des Deutschen

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es,

*Städtische Galerie

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Christa Dichgans
on ArtFacts {{DEFAULTSORT:Dichgans, Christa 1940 births 2018 deaths Artists from Berlin 20th-century German painters 21st-century German painters German women painters German pop artists 20th-century German women artists 21st-century German women artists

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