Christo Coetzee Artist

Christo Coetzee (24 March 1929 – 12 November 2000) was a South African assemblage and Neo-Baroque artist closely associated with the avant-garde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s. Under the influence of art theorist Michel Tapié, art dealer Rodolphe Stadler and art collector and photographer Anthony Denney, as well as the Gutai group of Japan, he developed his oeuvre alongside those of artists strongly influenced by Tapié's Un Art Autre (1952), such as Georges Mathieu, Alfred Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies and Lucio Fontana.

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Christo Coetzee
Birth dateMarch 24, 1929
Birth place
Johannesburg
Date of deathNovember 12, 2000
Place of death
Tulbagh

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Artist

Field of work
Collage
Painting
Influenced by
Movement
Abstract expressionism
Assemblage (art)
Tachisme
Neo-Baroque painting
training at
University of the Witwatersrand
Slade School of Fine Art

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