Original Vintage 1969 Andy Warhol Gallery Poster Marilyn Monroe German Sammling Karl Ströher Pop Art

Andy Warhol Gallery Poster “Marilyn” Sammlung Karl Ströher - Pop Art - [1969]

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Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father was a construction worker, while his mother was an embroiderer. They were devout Byzantine Catholics.

Some of Andy Warhol’s best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67). And his celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Tse-tung.

He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream advertising and commercial aesthetics becoming one of the most prolific and popular artists of all time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities in addition to his art, he became a film director, producer and magazine publisher.

When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist.

After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of "pop art" — paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time.

His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.

In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio, a large silver-painted warehouse known simply as "The Factory." The Factory quickly became one of New York City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene that most likely inspired the bar in George Lucas’ Star Wars, of lavish parties attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and celebrities and brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons including musician Lou Reed, who paid tribute to the hustlers and transvestites he'd met at The Factory with his hit song "Walk on the Wild Side".

In 1968, Warhol's thriving career almost ended. He was shot by Valerie Solanas, an aspiring writer and radical feminist and was seriously wounded in this attack.

Warhol's enigmatic personal life has been the subject of much debate. For example, he claimed that he remained a virgin for his entire life.

Warhol, who clearly relished his celebrity, became a fixture at infamous New York City nightclubs like Studio 54 and Max's Kansas City. Commenting on celebrity fixation — his own and that of the public at large — Warhol observed, "more than anything people just want stars."

Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On the one hand, his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity. On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggests a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized.

Warhol spoke to this apparent contradiction between his life and work in his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, writing that "making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art."

Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City

Featuring iconic Bauhaus-style graphics and the world famous image of Marilyn Monroe, this print was made just one year after Warhol's first exhibition at Tate Modern, London unveiling the first original Marilyn silkscreen series that made him a world renowned artist. The print is from 1968 promoting the Karl Ströher Collection exhibition at the Stadtische Gallery, Dusseldorf.

A Note on Pop Art

British artist Richard Hamilton described pop art as "popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business."

Pop Art is is a representational visual communication, moving at break-away speed. It is quintessentially American... optimistic, bold and naive.

It is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain. In later years, different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s.

Pop art started by the New York artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others, all of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture)

By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art.

Although Pop art encompasses a wide variety of work with very different attitudes and postures, much of it is somewhat emotionally removed. Pop art is generally "coolly" ambivalent.

Condition report:

Excellent - Mint Condition; From a private collection.

Additional dimensions information:

84 × 59 cm