short biography

Victor Vasarely (b. 1906, Pécs/Hungary; d. 1997, Paris) was a painter and printmaker and the founder of the Op Art. He made images of mathematically calculated geometric forms with kinetic effects by color contrasts. 1955-68 he participated at documenta 1-4 in Kassel.

https://www.vasarely.com
https://www.fondationvasarely.org/en

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collection/s

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Centre Pompidou Paris Centre d´Art Contemporain Frank Popper, Marcigny Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit DePaul University Museum, Chicago Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno Haifa Museum of Art Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (closed) International Centre of Graphic Art, Ljubljana Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Kunsthalle Bremen Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt LAAC, Dunkerque LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art LAM Lille La Boverie, Liège Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo . MACCSI - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sofía Imber, Caracas MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MUSMA Matera MUSPAC L´Aquila Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Modern Art Hünfeld Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf ° Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb ' Museums Vledder Musée Cantini, Marseille Musée du Chateau de Montbeliard Muzeum Ziemi Chelmskiej, Chelm Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Palmer Museum of Art Pori Art Museum QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt San Diego Museum of Art Sara Hildén Art Museum Situation Kunst (Für Max IMDAHL), Bochum Skissernas Museum, Lund Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Ulster Museum, Belfast Vasarely Museum Budapest Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen documenta Kassel kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm ms Muzeum Sztuki Lodz n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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  • 30. Nov 03. Mar 2002
    Astratta Palazzo Cavour, Turin
  • 26. Aug 04. Nov
    Palomino gfzk | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  • 10. Jun 07. Oct
    ORNAMENT und ABSTRAKTION Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel