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Keith Haring:
Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed
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Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed
Keith Haring:
Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed

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reproduction on paper | framed | glazed | size approx. 61.5 x 61.5 cm

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Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed
Keith Haring: Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed

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Picture "Untitled, April" (1985), framed

The American artist Keith Haring is considered an important pop artist of the 1980s. In addition to his often politically charged works of art, it was also important to him to convey the importance of joie de vivre and optimism.
Original: 1985, acrylic on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm.

Edition on high-quality photographic paper. Framed in silver-coloured solid wood frame, glazed. Size approx. 61.5 x 61.5 cm. © The Estate of Keith Haring.

About Keith Haring

1958-1990

In New York City in the 1980s, an art movement emerged from the obscurity that continues to inspire young artists today with its anarchic character and memorable visual language: With Keith Haring's graffiti, street art was born and his unmistakable figures became part of mass culture.

Graffiti is the colourful symbolic painting of public outdoor spaces, which today is part of our daily lives and often considered a nuisance. Already in the 1970s, young people sprayed words, logos and thickly outlined comic-like figures on the walls of New York subway stations to express their social protest.

Keith Haring, born in 1958 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, could identify "with the style, taste and colour" of these artists. In 1981, he began his graffiti work in the New York underground after studying art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Pittsburgh in the late 1970s. He was therefore not one of those artists who started as a street artist and then was discovered, he rather used the streets as a canvas as a trained painter.

He shared his penchant for evenly filling the picture surface with rapport-like sequences of figures with his role models from American abstract expressionism. After his appearance at the documenta in Kassel in 1982, he became friends and collaborated with the Pop artist Andy Warhol.

Keith Haring commercialised his style in his Pop Shop, which opened in 1988. There he primarily sold his motif of the agile "Radiant Child" baby figure radiating joie de vivre and optimism as T-shirt prints. He also used his artistic success to push through unusual concepts.

Keith Haring had been infected with immunodeficiency AIDS and drew attention to this disease in numerous campaigns. Keith Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31.

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