Lothar Baumgarten

Lothar Baumgarten was a German conceptual artist, born on 5 October 1944 in Rheinsberg, Germany, and died on 2 December 2018 in Berlin. He studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe in 1968 and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf from 1969 to 1971, where he was a student of Joseph Beuys for one year. He has exhibited his work internationally, with solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1987), the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1987), the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and Tokyo (1996), the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg (2001), the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2016). He represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1984 together with A.R. Penck and participated in several documenta editions in Kassel (1972, 1982, 1992, 1997). His works can be found in numerous museum collections and throughout his career, Baumgarten has received numerous awards, including the MFI Prize in Essen (2003), the Lichtwark Prize of the City of Hamburg (1997) and the Golden Lion at the 41st Venice Biennale (1984).