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Lutz Bacher

Lutz Bacher (1943 - 2019) was active/lived in California, New York.  Lutz Bacher is known for Conceptual art, found objects, photographs, installations, self portrailts.

"Lutz Bacher, Conceptual Artist Who Hid Much About Herself, Dies at 75," Online obituary of The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 26, 2019

The American Conceptual artist who, early in her career, adopted the fictional, masculine-sounding name Lutz Bacher, and who thereafter refused to reveal personal details about her life, died on May 14, in Manhattan. She was 75.

The cause was a heart attack, according to a spokesperson for Galerie Buchholz, which represents her work in Germany.

Over the years, Ms. Bacher gave out a variety of birth dates (the real one was September 21, 1943), but did not disclose where she was born, or provide any information about her family or educational background. All that was generally known was that she began making art in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, when Conceptualism had succeeded Minimalism as the influential new art movement.

One of the its champions, the art historian Lucy Lippard, defined Conceptual   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6717 characters.]  Artist bio

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