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Christian Boltanski (1944-2021)
Photo: Miguel Riopa / AFP
Time and again, Christian Boltanski's work was about remembering.
He showed techniques to visualize the past and the erased.
But he also addressed forgetting.
For the son of a Jewish father, who was born in Paris in 1944, the subject of the Holocaust was central.
Again and again he took it up for his works.
Boltanski used the means of photography, he was active as a sculptor, but mostly he created installations.
He was considered an autodidact.
He became known early on in Germany.
As early as the mid-1970s, he took part in the Documenta in Kassel.
A permanent installation by him can be seen in the Völklinger Hütte.
As the French news agency AFP reported on Wednesday with reference to the former head of the Museum of Modern Art in the Center Pompidou in Paris, Bernard Blistène, Christian Boltanski died in Paris at the age of 76.
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