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Jean Tinguely | Tinguely, Paris 1957 | Tinguely, Paris 1957
Jean Tinguely
Tinguely, Paris 1957 | © Jean Tinguely
 


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 Jean Tinguely

born 1925 in Freiburg (CH)—died 1991 in Bern. Tinguely, the son of a chocolate packer, attended the College of Design in Basle and did an apprenticeship as a window dresser before moving to Paris with his first wife, Eva Aeppli, and working there on his first moving sculptures. Tinguely was 35 years old when, in 1960, he first guested in New York, the American metropolis for abstract expressionism and immediately found his way into the predominant groups of artists. Having returned to Paris in 1961, Tinguely started a life and working relationship with Niki de Saint Phalle and commenced a frenzied work phase which shunned no experiment, dimension or provocation.