Stanley Brouwn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stanley Brouwn

Dutch artist

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname

Date of Death: 18-May-2017

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Stanley Brouwn

  • Stanley Edmund Brouwn (25 June 1935- 18 May 2017) was a South-American-born Dutch conceptual artist.
  • His works explore dematerialisation and combine with the deliberate anonymity of the artist himself to exemplify conceptualism in the 1960s.
  • His best-known works include “This Way Brouwn”, “Afghanistan-Zambia” and “BROUWNTOYS 4000AD”. Brouwn was born in 1935 in Paramaribo, the capital of the smallest South-American country, Suriname.
  • In 1957, he relocated to Amsterdam.
  • In Amsterdam, a fellow artist and friend of Brouwn's regarded simply as Armando introduced him to the Zero movement, a group of artists who deferred from the authorial signature artists often applied to their works.
  • Brouwn's first works coincided with his introduction to this movement.
  • Brouwn taught as a professor at the Kunstakademie Hamburg for multiple years.
  • The extensive privacy Brouwn maintained throughout his career and personal life has resulted in a lack of information surrounding his marital status, and if he has fathered any children.
  • He died in 2017 in his hometown of Amsterdam at the age of 81. Few of Brouwn's early works, consisting of wood and iron sculpture and refuse-filled polythene bags, have survived his career as Brouwn destroyed most of them.
  • However, the remainder of Brouwn's works earned him placement in various prestigious exhibitions such as Documentas 5, 6, 7 and 11, and the 1982 Venice Biennale.
  • In 2005, a retrospective collection of Brouwn's works was exhibited in the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • His practice and works have influenced various critics, artists and contemporary aesthetics.

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