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ID: 500089761
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500089761
 
Record Type: Person
Merz, Mario (Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2003)

Note: A leading artist of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s who worked in sculpture, painting, installation, and photography. He used ordinary objects and everyday junk while also employing traditional art materials. Recurring themes in his work include the igloo and the Fibonacci sequence. A retrospective of Merz's work was staged at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989. He was the recipient of a 2003 Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association.

Names:
Merz, Mario (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Merz, Mario (Dutch-P,NA)
Mario Merz (V,display)
Merts, Maryo (V)
מרץ, מריו (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
Italian (preferred)
Milanese

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
painter
draftsman
photographer
installation artist
assemblage artist
author

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)
Died:  Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Turin (Torino province, Piedmont, Italy) (inhabited place)
active:   Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associated with ....  Szeemann, Harald  
............................  (Swiss curator, 1933-2005) [500196090]
collaborated with ....  Merz, Marisa  
................................  (Italian sculptor, 1926-2019) [500063253]
spouse of ....  Merz, Marisa  
................  (Italian sculptor, 1926-2019) [500063253]
teacher of ....  Thomann, Hans  
..................  (Swiss painter and installation artist, born 1957) [500396389]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Merz, Mario (I)

Biographies:
(Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2003) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Italian painter, sculptor, b.1925) ..... [BHA]
(Italian artist, born 1925) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Italian sculptor, born 1925) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Italian sculptor, born 1925) ..... [AVERY]
(Italian sculptor) ..... [AVERY]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Italian painter, 1925-2003) ..... [IMJ]
(Italian artist, 1925-2003) ..... [MoMA]
(Italian artist, born 1925) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(Italian assemblage artist, 1925-2003) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
מרץ, מריו ........ [GRL, IMJ]
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83013075
Mario Merz ........ [GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
......................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Merts, Maryo ........ [AVERY, GRL]
..........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83013075
Merz, Mario ........ [AVERY Preferred, Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
........................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 2805
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83013075
........................  Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 55451
........................  Witt Library, Authority files
........................  Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera [exhibition pamphlet] (2002)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Belvedere, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 2805
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Bolaffi, Dizionario dei pittori italiani (1972-1976)
....................  CAA News 29/2 (2004) 23
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83013075
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Gorenflo, Bildenden Künstler (1988)
....................  Guide to Exhibited Artists: Sculptors (1985)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n83013075
....................  New York Times (13 November 2003)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 55451
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q698877
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
....................  Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera [exhibition pamphlet] (2002)
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... CAA News 29/2 (2004) 23
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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