* August 6, 1928 - † February 22, 1987

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"If you want to know everything about Andy Warhol, all you have to do is look at the surface of my paintings: That's me. There's nothing hidden behind it." Andy Warhol According to his motto "Everything is beautiful", the most famous pop art artist Andy Warhol depicts the surface of everyday consumer objects (soup cans, detergent), but also of idols of modern media society (Marylin Monroe, Elvis Presley) as color variations and series , which Warhol elevated to the status of works of art, but at the same time commented on them ironically. In Andy Warhol's work, the world becomes the surface from which Warhol selects a piece. For Warhol, everything that is reflected in the media is considered a world. Only when the world is captured in newspapers, television or cameras does Warhol's gaze fall on this world and receive his attention. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. In the 1960s, Warhol became famous with paintings and screen prints in which he enlarged photographs from various mass media and reproduced them as variations. In 1963, Andy Warhol began producing avant-garde films at the same time. Most of them were made in the environment of his Warhol Factory, which as a collective of artists had a significant influence on his work. Andy Warhol, who died on February 22, 1987, became a leading figure in the New York art scene in the 1970s and was considered a mentor and role model for artists such as Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Warhol, Andy - Goethe - art print, after the original from 1982