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He installed a mold museum for food sculptures in Hamburg and wrote a play that only consisted of the word “marble”. He obsessively produced artworks about the end product of human digestion, but devoted most of his body of work to bouquets of flowers. He created busts of himself from birdseed, or created one magazine for everything. The Swiss artist Dieter Roth was the Leonardo of the Age of Defiance. Up until his death in 1998, he maniacally produced anti-art in every medium available. He left behind videos and music cassettes, huge paint-splattered installations made of junk, absurd literature and many anecdotes from a vagabond, alcohol-soaked life as a total artist with biting humor and terrible manners.