artist
Marcel Broodthaers
birth
Brussels, Belgium, 28-1-1924
death
Cologne, Germany, 28-1-1976
see too
Broodthaers, Marcel Louis Jean
last update
23-04-2025
Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 – Cologne, 1976) was one of the major artists of the twentieth century. After abandoning his chemistry studies, he published his first book of poems in 1945. In the forties and fifties he continued to write poetry and worked as a journalist, and in 1957 he made his first film. In 1964 he began using other visual media such as photography, collage and objects, and he went on to produce an extensive body of graphic, film and text work that never strayed far from poetry. He was heir to the surrealism of Duchamp and Magritte, and he took his profound reflections on art and the museum as an institution to their logical conclusions.

Broodthaers constructed paradoxical objects and used all kinds of materials (many taken from nature) in his work, which is rooted in language. He used irony, hieroglyphs, and fragments of texts by nineteenth century authors (Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Dumas and La Fontaine) to sharpen and broaden the anti-bourgeois and anti-social critique of his works. Broodthaers, who produced more than a hundred cinematic works, was the creator of a new genre that merged film, still images, language and objects. His works can be found in major collections such as the New York MoMA, the Tate Modern in London, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MACBA.
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[1606_interior_rgb / Imatge] Mon Livre d'ogre
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[1605_interior_rgb / Imatge] Minuit
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[1593_001_rgb / Imatge] La Bête noire
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[1568_001_rgb / Imatge] La Faute d'ortographe (Mea Culpa)
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[2024_001_rgb / Imatge] Pense-Bête
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[2025_002_rgb / Imatge] Phantomas
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[0194_001_rgb / Imatge] Sense títol
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[1569_001_pub / Imatge] Le Corbeau et le Renard
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[1603_001_rgb / Imatge] M.B.
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[2030_002_rgb / Imatge] Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
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[2029_004_pub / Imatge] Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
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[1570_001_hist / Imatge] La Signature. Série 1. Tirage illimité
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[1595_001_rgb / Imatge] La Pluie (Projet pour un texte)
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[2034_001_rgb / Imatge] Vingt ans après
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[1571_001_hist / Imatge] M.B., 24 Images / Secondes
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[1572_002_hist / Imatge] Musée d'Art Moderne à Vendre - pour cause faillite
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[1607_003_rgb / Imatge] MTL (13/3/70-10/4/70)
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Une Seconde d'Eternité (D'après une idée de Charles Baudelaire)
1970
Marcel Broodthaers
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Fig. 1, 21 octubre – 7 novembre, 1971 (Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach)
1971
Johannes Cladders
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[1588_001_hist / Imatge] Fig. 0, 1, 2, 12: Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 21.10.1971 - 7.11.1971
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[1574_001_rgb / Imatge] Six lettres ouvertes Avis
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[2026_001_rgb / Imatge] Plan vert. La porte est ouverte
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[1573_001_rgb / Imatge] Tractatus logico-catalogicus
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[2021_001_pub_l / Imatge] 2021_001_pub_l.jpg
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[1582_003_pub_l / Imatge] 1582_003_pub_l.jpg
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[2022_004_pub / Imatge] Musée - Museum
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Das Recht
1972
Marcel Broodthaers
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[1576.001_001_rgb / Imatge] Museum-Museum
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[1602_001_rgb / Imatge] Lettre ouverte
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Chère petite soeur
1972
Marcel Broodthaers
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[1578_001_rgb / Imatge] Ein Eisenbahnüberfall (Une Attaque de chemin de fer)
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[1586_001_rgb / Imatge] Correspondance - Briefwechsel
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Magie. Art et politique
1973
Marcel Broodthaers
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[1592_001_rgb / Imatge] Jeter du Poisson sur le Marché de Cologne
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A Voyage on the North Sea
1973 - 1974
Marcel Broodthaers
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[2463_002_rgb_l / Imatge] L'Art et les mots
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[1590_003_rgb / Imatge] Gedicht - Poem - Poème / Change - Exchange - Wechsel
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Comment va la mémoire et La Fontaine?
1973
Marcel Broodthaers
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[4402_002_rgb / Imatge] A Voyage on the North Sea
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Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
1973
Marcel Broodthaers
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[2032_002_rgb / Imatge] Un Voyage en Mer du Nord
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[2027_001_rgb / Imatge] Rébus
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Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes de Charles Baudelaire
1973
Marcel Broodthaers
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[2023_002_rgb / Imatge] Pauvre Belgique de Charles Baudelaire
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[1600_001_rgb / Imatge] Le Manuscrit trouvé dans une Bouteille
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[1584_001_rgb / Imatge] Comédie
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Un Jardin d'Hiver
1974
Marcel Broodthaers
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Un Jardin d'Hiver
1974
Marcel Broodthaers
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[1583_001_pub_l / Imatge] 1583_001_pub_l.jpg
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[1601_002_hist / Imatge] Les Animaux de la ferme
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[1598_002_rgb / Imatge] La souris écrit rat (A compte d'auteur) (1)
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[1599_001_rgb / Imatge] La souris écrit rat (A compte d'auteur) (2)
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[1596_001_rgb / Imatge] La Séance. Racisme végétal. Film de Marcel Broodthaers
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[2028_001_rgb / Imatge] Roman. C'était comme une semaine de bonté
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[1587_002_rgb / Imatge] En lisant la Loreleï. Wie ich die Lorelei gelesen habe
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[1597_001_rgb / Imatge] La soupe de Daguerre
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[1589_001_rgb / Imatge] Garniture symbolique
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[1594_001_rgb / Imatge] La Conquête de l'espace. Atlas à l'usage des artistes et des militaires
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[1581_002_pub_l / Imatge] 1581_002_pub_l.jpg
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Räume: Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Hans Hollein, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ulrich Rückriem (Beleg III); Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 29 August bis 3 Oktober 1976
1976
Marcel Broodthaers
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[1606_interior_rgb / Imatge] Mon Livre d'ogre
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[1593_001_rgb / Imatge] La Bête noire
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[1568_001_rgb / Imatge] La Faute d'ortographe (Mea Culpa)
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[2024_001_rgb / Imatge] Pense-Bête
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[2030_002_rgb / Imatge] Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
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[1570_001_hist / Imatge] La Signature. Série 1. Tirage illimité
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[1595_001_rgb / Imatge] La Pluie (Projet pour un texte)
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[1572_002_hist / Imatge] Musée d'Art Moderne à Vendre - pour cause faillite
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Une Seconde d'Eternité (D'après une idée de Charles Baudelaire)
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Fig. 1, 21 octubre – 7 novembre, 1971 (Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach)
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[1588_001_hist / Imatge] Fig. 0, 1, 2, 12: Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 21.10.1971 - 7.11.1971
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[2022_004_pub / Imatge] Musée - Museum
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Das Recht
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Chère petite soeur
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[1586_001_rgb / Imatge] Correspondance - Briefwechsel
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Magie. Art et politique
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A Voyage on the North Sea
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[2463_002_rgb_l / Imatge] L'Art et les mots
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Comment va la mémoire et La Fontaine?
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Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
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Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes de Charles Baudelaire
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Un Jardin d'Hiver
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Räume: Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Hans Hollein, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ulrich Rückriem (Beleg III); Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 29 August bis 3 Oktober 1976
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Marcel Broodthaers / traducción de Juan Elías Tovar, Elsa Cross y Tatiana Lipkes
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2016
A12801
Ten thousand francs reward / by Marcel Broodthaers
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[2016]
A12704
Marcel Broodthaers: une seconde d'eternité d'aprés une idée de Charles Baudelarie / Marcel Broodthaers
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2015
A13852
Marcel Broodthaers / [editor in chief, Wilfried Dickhoff]
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1994
A03647
Cocernant la vente d'un kilog d'or fin en Lingot = Concerning the sale of a Kilogram of fine gold in the ingot = Bettreffend den Verkauf von einem Kilogramm Feingold in Barren
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1987
A00626
A Programme of films by Marcel Broodthaers : 9 - 18 February 1977 / [text: Michael G. Compton]
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1977
A00728
Das Manuskript in der Flasche : the Manuscript in a bottle : Le Manuscrit touvé dans une bouteille : 1833-1974 / Galerie René Block
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1974
A06210
Marcel Broodthaers : ne dites pas que je ne l'ai pas dit = zeg niet dat ik het niet gezegd heb
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1974
A01050
Marcel Broodthaers : à l'occasion de l'exposition de Marcel Broodthaers au Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, la Wide White Space présentera au Bailli quelques pièces anciennes et des éditions récentes : Wide White Space, à partir du 25 septembre 1974
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1974
A01210
Moules, oeufs, frites, pots, charbon, perroquets / Marcel Broodthaers
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1974
A01048
Fig.1 Fig.2 Fig.0 Fig.12 Fig.A : Filme von Marcel Broodthaers / Galerie René Block
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1973
A06209
Programme : Marcel Broodthaers
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1973
A01211
Deurle 11/7/73
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1973
A01527
Edition Le Corbeau et le Renard (1967-1972) : Marcel Broodthaers : Wide White Space, tentoonstelling van 17 tot 30 juni 1972
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1972
A04030
Edition Le Corbeau et le Renard (1967-1972) : Marcel Broodthaers : Wide White Space, tentoonstelling van 17 tot 30 juni 1972
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1972
A01206
Naar een onbeduidende kunst? / Marcel Broodthaers
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1969
A05883
Marcel Broodthaers à la Deblioudebliou/S : exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé : tentoonstelling van 3 tot 20/12/69, Wide White Space
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1969
A01209
Broodthaers : Galerie Gerda Bassenge
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1969
A00727
Le corbeau et le renard : édition originale à 40 ex. : Wide White Space Gallery
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1968
A04032
Le corbeau et le renard de Marcel Broodthaers : édition du livre, du film et des deux écrans
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1968
A01207
Le corbeau et le renard : édition originale à 40 ex. : Wide White Space Gallery
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1968
A01208
Moules oeufs frites pots charbon / van Marcel Broodthaers
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1966
A01049
[Deux poèmes dédiés à Suzanne et Paul Bourgoiguie par le poète Marcel Broodthaers...]
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1954
A08033