artist
Lothar Baumgarten
birth
Rheinsberg, Germany, 1944
death
Berlín, Germany, 2018
last update
23-04-2025
Lothar Baumgarten (Rheinberg, Germany, 1944) currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. Student to Joseph Beuys at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, his work is best known for its combination of words and images, which simultaneously inquire into photography's objective gaze and Western representations of the 'other'. Between 1978 and 1980, Baumgarten spent eighteen months in a Yanomàmi village in southern Venezuela, an experience that continues to inform his work. He has received numerous awards and prizes, prominent among which was the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion in 1984.
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works

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Autofocus retina. Part I
2006 - 2007
Lothar Baumgarten
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Autofocus retina. Part II. Drawing for the installation of colour gels for the large glass façade
2006 - 2007
Lothar Baumgarten
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Lope de Aguirre, Sir Walter Raleigh, Antonio de Berrio
1977 - 1985
Lothar Baumgarten
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[3668_001_pub / Imatge] Color Bar
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[3667_002_pub / Imatge] Salto (Pipa Cornuta)
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[3669_004_pub / Imatge] Utopia / Montaigne series
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Untitled (Industrial Architecture in Barcelona)
2008
Lothar Baumgarten
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[3897_002_pub / Imatge] Untitled (Industrial Architecture in Barcelona: Fábrica Vilumara, Ca l'Aranyó, Can Ricart, Oliva Artés, La Escocesa, Ca Alier, Ca L'Illa, Can Batlló de Sants, Fabra i Coats)
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[3895_001_rgb / Imatge] Fàbrica Albert Musterós, Poblenou
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Autofocus retina. Part I
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Autofocus retina. Part II. Drawing for the installation of colour gels for the large glass façade
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Lope de Aguirre, Sir Walter Raleigh, Antonio de Berrio
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[3668_001_pub / Imatge] Color Bar
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[3667_002_pub / Imatge] Salto (Pipa Cornuta)
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[3669_004_pub / Imatge] Utopia / Montaigne series
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Untitled (Industrial Architecture in Barcelona)
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[3897_002_pub / Imatge] Untitled (Industrial Architecture in Barcelona: Fábrica Vilumara, Ca l'Aranyó, Can Ricart, Oliva Artés, La Escocesa, Ca Alier, Ca L'Illa, Can Batlló de Sants, Fabra i Coats)
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[3895_001_rgb / Imatge] Fàbrica Albert Musterós, Poblenou
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documents

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Conversa entre Lothar Baumgarten i Kaira Cabañas [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
document
8-2-2008
A.HIS.05174
Carbon / by Lothar Baumgarten
document
1991
A04319
Erika Foscher zeigt : Lothar Baumgarten bei Konrad Fischer ... 20. märz - 8. april 1972
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[1972]
A03789
Theatrum Botanicum pour M.C.B. : le monde comme cristal, le jardin comme métaphore de l'univers = the world in a crystal, the garden as a metaphor of the universe / Lothar Baumgarten
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1995
A01546
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announces the publication of Carbon by Lothar Baumgarten produced on the occasion of the artist's site-specific exhibition at MOCA, April 8 through June 17, 1990
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1990
A01520
Lothar Baumgarten : Antwerpen, Bruxelles : Wide White Space
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1974
A01047
Lothar Baumgarten : [see other side : Imago Mundi, 07.02.-15.06.2008, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] / [texto Kaira Marie Cabañas
document
2008
A01282
Wie Venedig sehen : Haus Esters, Krefeld / Lothar Baumgarten
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[1992]
A00573
Lothar Baumgarten : [see other side : Imago Mundi, 29.1.-14.5.2006, Museum Kurhaus Kleve] / [text Kaira Marie Cabañas]
document
2006
A01283
Carbon / by Lothar Baumgarten
document
1991
A00684
Lothar Baumgarten : [see other side : Imago Mundi, 07.02.-15.06.2008, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] / [texto Kaira Marie Cabañas
document
2008
A05594
Lothar Baumgarten : [see other side : Imago Mundi, 07.02.-15.06.2008, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] / [texto Kaira Marie Cabañas
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2008
A05592