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Herbert Zangs

Germany • 1924 - 2003

Biography

Herbert Zangs, born in Krefeld on 27 March 1924 and died there on 26 March 2003, was a German visual artist.

A keen traveller, it was his constant journeys between Germany and France that marked the high points of his creative life. In 1960, he won the Vincent van Volkmer prize.

This atypical artist, original in his time, is considered today to be a precursor of the trends of the 1950s. Some art historians [Which ones?] link him to Dubuffet, Fontana or Beuys, but Zangs nevertheless remains an unclassifiable artist.

For Zangs, white was essential, and it was with the white works that the most important part of his work began. As early as 1952, with the salvaged objects that he appropriated and ordered, he launched Blanchiment.

Nationality

German artists

Themes

Wall sculpture, Decorative objects