1. Lubo Kristek was born on 8 May 1943 and is a sculptor, painter, and performance artist of Czech origin, who lived in West Germany from 1968 until the 1990s.
26 Facts About Lubo Kristek
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Lubo Kristek specializes in critical assemblages and happenings, in which he incorporates multiple forms of media.
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Lubo Kristek is the author of a three-state sculptural pilgrims' way.
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Lubo Kristek deliberately suppressed or sometimes annulled his artistic handwriting.
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Lubo Kristek settled in Landsberg am Lech and lived there for almost three decades.
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From Landsberg, Lubo Kristek travelled to other places in Europe to study and create.
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Lubo Kristek was influenced by Arno Lehmann who lived in Salzburg, where Lubo Kristek used to go to meet him.
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In 1973, after Lehmann's death, Lubo Kristek created the sculpture Soul shaped by flame.
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Lubo Kristek was influenced by the Austrian ethologist Eberhard Trumler, especially by the mechanisms of survival of the species.
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In 1977, Lubo Kristek travelled through the west coast of the United States and Canada with his exhibition tour American Cycle 77.
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Lubo Kristek settled in Podhradi nad Dyji in a house where there is a gallery of his works today.
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Lubo Kristek made sculptures in several techniques, such as bronze casting, repousse and chasing, welding and combined techniques using materials like stone, wood, metal, ceramic and found objects.
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In 1988, Lubo Kristek created the bronze fountain The Drinking for the Theresianbad Greifenberg, Germany.
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In 2006, Lubo Kristek created bronze sculpture The Seekers that was located on the confluence of the rivers Thaya and March.
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Lubo Kristek linked together the sculptures to inspire people to take a walk through the landscape.
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Lubo Kristek included his coat and hat in which he was fleeing over the border in 1968 in the assemblage.
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Lubo Kristek addressed the subject of hidden traps in modern society in his assemblage Soundproof Aesthetic of Luxuriety, which he created in 1976.
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In 1977, Lubo Kristek created a monumental altar painting for the sacral space, the cemetery chapel in Penzing, Germany.
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Lubo Kristek called the 7 m high painting Transcendental Composition between Suffering and Hope.
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Lubo Kristek has organised happenings in Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Belgium, Poland and Slovakia.
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Yet at the same time Lubo Kristek looks for the opening of new spaces, he attempts to vibrate the unknown places of the spectators' soul, and the intention of his performance is the force of creation and artistic intuition to even overcome death mentally.
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In 1975, Lubo Kristek went for a walk with a fox's skeleton on a leash on the colonnade in Landsberg am Lech and observed the reactions of the people.
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Lubo Kristek's aim was to study the crowd behavior and the death taboo.
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Lubo Kristek forced them to wonder where the boundary is and whether it exists at all.
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Lubo Kristek's aim was to evoke a threshold situation, when the shocked spectator is shifted outside his stereotypes and has the possibility to re-evaluate them.
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Lubo Kristek travelled with this happening series to the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Poland and the assemblage kept changing.