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- In 1966 Meret Oppenheim completed a magnificent plaster model (Ø: 180 cm) for a fountain.
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In this year Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the Face of Freedom was published, and she was commissioned to make a public fountain by Berlin's art commission. Her fountain was cast in 1983 and had mixed public reviews.
Jan 17, 2019 · Discover Méret Oppenheim Fountain in Bern, Switzerland: The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.
The fountain by the artist Meret Oppenheim, who spent a part of her life in Switzerland, stands eight meters high on the Waisenhausplatz in Bern since 1983. A light installation at the top and irrigation system with spiralling water channel that winds it’s way around the concrete column are the key elements of this work of art.
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Dec 17, 2012 · A century after her birth, the legacy of Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim is being marked by major shows in Bern, Berlin and Vienna that reveal her ongoing influence, including in contemporary art.
Nov 24, 2023 · The ten metres high fountain made waves when installed in 1983, and the disputes over its 'beauty', its final setting, and its meaning for the city extended much beyond the artist's death, in...
She works on a sculpture for a fountain in the Jardins de l’ancienne école polytechnique in Paris. On November 15, the day of the appearance of her book Caroline with poems and etchings, Meret Oppenheim dies of a heart attack. She is buried in Carona in the family grave.
Mar 27, 2017 · Outside Casa Costanza is the fountain – two snakes winding round a staff – which the artist Daniel Spoerri has erected in Oppenheim’s honour, based on her Hermesbrunnon (Fountain of Hermes; 1966–74). Up the hill, in a walled graveyard, I find Oppenheim’s grave: a red sandstone headstone engraved with her name and dates, and the image ...
