Arnold Bode

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Block of stamps issued in 2000, commemorating Bode and documenta III (1964)

Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator.[1][2]

Arnold was born in

Nazis
came to power they banned him from his profession. He returned to his home town of Kassel following the war.

Bode organized the first

Bienal de São Paulo in 1951 before spawning endless copies across the globe in the 1990s. After the first national pavilion was built in 1907 by Belgium in the Giardini, the Biennale became a battleground between countries, their artists and their pavilions: an Olympics of art. By contrast, documenta's internationalism remains rooted in the failures of nationalism: the defeat and material hardship wrought by National Socialism and the repressed shame surrounding the Holocaust.'[1]

Bode organized three more documenta exhibitions, finishing with documenta 4. Others have since continued to produce regular documenta exhibitions in Kassel. Bode received the German

Federal Cross of Merit
in 1974.

Bode's daughter is Renee Nele.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Allen, Jennifer (31 May 2012). "documenta – Looking Back and Ahead | Frieze". Frieze. Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. ^ Richter, Gerhard. "Arnold Bode". www.gerhard-richter.com. Gerhard Richter. Retrieved 1 December 2020.


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