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ID: 500024882
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024882
 
Record Type: Person
Uecker, Gunther (German sculptor, installation artist, and scenographer, born 1930)

Note: German artist. Member of the Zero group of the 1960s, known for his use of nails as a sculptural material.

Names:
Uecker, Günther (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Günther Uecker (V,display)
Uecker, Gunther (V,English-P,NA,U)
Gunther Uecker (V)
Uecker (V,LC)
איקר, גינתר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Ücker, Günther (U)
Ueker, Günther (V)
Günther Uecker (V)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)
West German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
installation artist
scenographer
miscellaneous
painter
draftsman
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) (state)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Mack, Heinz  
................................  (German painter and sculptor, born 1931) [500006451]
collaborated with ....  Piene, Otto  
................................  (German painter, 1928-2014) [500032357]
founder of ....  Zero  
..................  (International group of artists, active ca. 1957-1966) [500126108]
teacher of ....  Kubach, Livia  
..................  (German sculptor, 1966-) [500693042]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Uecker, Gunther (I)

Biographies:
(German sculptor, installation artist, and scenographer, born 1930) ..... [VP Preferred]
(West German sculptor, b.1930) ..... [BHA]
(German artist, 1930-) ..... [WCP]
(German artist, born 1930) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(German sculptor, born 1930) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(German artist, born 1930) ..... [AVERY]
(German artist) ..... [AVERY]
(German sculptor) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1930) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(German sculptor, born 1930) ..... [IMJ]
(German artist, born 1930) ..... [MoMA]
(German painter, 1930-) ..... [RKD]
(German sculptor, painter, and installation artist, 1930-2025) ..... [VP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
איקר, גינתר ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Günther Uecker ........ [VP]
..............................  Artforum [online] (2004-)
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Gunther Uecker ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Ücker, Günther ........ [RKD]
.............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 78670
Uecker ........ [AVERY, GRISC Preferred, GRL]
...............  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...............  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
...............  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83216934
Uecker, Günther ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
................................  Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 20 May 2013
................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83216934
................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 78670
................................  Water, Sand, Space (2002) 137
Uecker, Gunther ........ [CL-Courtauld Preferred, IMJ Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Ueker, Günther ........ [VP]
..............................  Artforum [online] (2004-) https://www.artforum.com/news/gunther-uecker-dies-19302025-1234732449/

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Babington Smith Dictionary of Contemporary artists (1981)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83216934
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 20 May 2013
....................  Guide to Exhibited Artists: North American Painters (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: n83216934
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989)
....................  Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art (1973)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 78670
....................  Water, Sand, Space (2002) 137
....................  Wer ist wer (1950-) 1989-90
....................  Who's Who in Germany (1956-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q569940
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY]
.......... Artforum [online] (2004-) https://www.artforum.com/news/gunther-uecker-dies-19302025-1234732449/
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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