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Karl Oskar Blase, the “face of documenta”, would have turned one hundred years old on March 24, 2025. The Kassel-based graphic designer and professor of art and visual communication had been working for documenta since 1964 and had a unique influence on its appearance. To celebrate his milestone birthday, the documenta archiv is dedicating a multimedia studio exhibition to him in its Reading Room.

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Arnold Bode - founder of the documenta archiv. Lecture by Birgit Jooss

13.8.2017

Sunday, August, 13, 2017, 4:30 pm

 

Ort: Elisabethkirche Kassel, Friedrichsplatz 13, 34117 Kassel

© documenta archiv / Nachlass Arnold Bode

Arnold Bode (1900 - 1977), Inventory Number: docA, MS, 10002817

In the 1980ies the documenta archiv took over the curatorial bequest of Arnold Bode (1900-1977), founder of the documenta (1955) and initiator of the documenta archiv (1961). The collection comprises of written documents, concept papers, diaries, photographs, catalogues, official certificates and awards as well as furniture, paintings, drawings, etchings and sketches by Bode himself. All of it offers a foundation to explore the life and work of this visionary whom Kassel owes for the most important exhibition of contemporary art. The lecture depicts aspects of the life and work by Arnold Bode through archival sources especially in regard to the world exhibition documenta.