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Special exhibition: Lindau: Exhibition with works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Special exhibition
Lindau: Exhibition with works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The disguise artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 2006. Photo

© Friso Gentsch/dpa

You are among the most prominent artists of the past decades. They needed tons of material for their projects, which fascinated millions. Now Lindau remembers Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

The city In this year’s summer season, Lindau is presenting a large special exhibition with works by the prominent artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The organizers said that around 70 exhibits would be on display at the show. “Using large-format original drawings, collages and photographs, it shows how the couple’s monumental projects, such as the covered Reichstag in Berlin, the covered Triumphal Arch in Paris and the floating piers on Lake Iseo, were created.”

The loans come from the couple’s estate and from private collectors. The exhibition “Christo and Jeanne-Claude – A Life for Art” is open from next Saturday until October 13th. The large art exhibitions in Lindau are among the most popular events in the Lake Constance region year after year, with tens of thousands of people visiting each of these exhibitions.

Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) had fascinated millions of people all over the world for decades with their large-scale projects. In Germany they became particularly popular with the wrapping of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995. After his partner’s death, Christo continued to work and mainly prepared the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe, but he did not live to see the implementation of the project on the Paris landmark in 2021.

Since 2011 there have been many visitors to Lindau art exhibitions

Exhibitions with pictures by prominent representatives of modern art have been shown regularly in Lindau every summer since 2011. According to the Lake Constance city’s cultural office, the special exhibitions with works by, for example, Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Matisse, Nolde and Hundertwasser have so far attracted more than 800,000 visitors. Last year the city presented works by pop art star Andy Warhol.

Since the museum in the baroque Lindau city palace “Cavazzen” is currently closed for renovation, the large annual exhibitions have been shown for several years in the former main post office not far from the historic island train station. The special exhibition is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.