Per Kirkeby was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor.
12 Facts About Per Kirkeby
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Per Kirkeby's works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in many important public collections, including the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou.
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In 1957, Per Kirkeby began studying natural history at the University of Copenhagen.
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Per Kirkeby went on to work as a painter, sculptor, writer, and printmaker.
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Per Kirkeby's works were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1976,1980,1993,1997, and 2005.
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Per Kirkeby published a book of essays on the works of Delacroix, Manet, Picasso in 1988.
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Per Kirkeby taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe beginning in 1978, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and at Stadelschule in Frankfurt.
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Per Kirkeby was born 1 September 1938 in Copenhagen to Alfred Kirkeby Christensen and Lucy Helga Alice Nisbeth Bertelsen.
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Per Kirkeby's father Alfred was an engineer and he spent his childhood between Bispebjerg and Husum.
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In 2013, Per Kirkeby sustained a serious brain injury in a domestic fall accident.
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Per Kirkeby announced in 2015 that he had given up all further attempts to resume painting after the accident, but continued to create small etchings.
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Per Kirkeby died on 9 May 2018 at his home in Hellerup and is buried at Bispebjerg Cemetery.