Abraham David Christian

<body bgcolor="white" text="#d1d1d1" link="#ed1c24" vlink="#d1d1d1" alink="#d1d1d1" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0"> <div align="center"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> </font></p> <p><a href="0a_start.html"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> </font><font size="7" color="#ed1c24" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Abraham David Christian</font></a></p> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <a href="http://www.abrahamdavidchristian.com">Abraham-David-Christian</a><br> <br> <a href="http://www.abrahamdavidchristian.com/">ADC</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/adc_1info.html">Info</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/adc_2links.html">Links<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/adc_3bib.html"><font size="3">Bibliografie</font></a></font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> <br> Abraham David Christian is an international artist who is best known for his paper and bronze sculptures.<br> Geometrical and shape-of-life forms reference the traditions of Eastern, Western, African, and American cultures,<br> even as they remain perfectly unique unto themselves.<br> Abraham David Christian sculptures convene the spirits of Renaissance art<br> (Donatello and Michelangelo), the Classical abstract art of the avantgarde in the twentieth century<br> (Giacometti and Brancusi), the most (so-called) "primitive" objects from the smallest villages in Africa,<br> and the most (so-called) "refined" goddess or Buddha from India or Japan.<br> <br> Included in his first <i>documenta</i> (5) when Abraham David Christian was only nineteen years old (1972),<br> <a href="9_find_adc/adc_3bib.html">Abraham David Christian</a> has had one-person exhibitions at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (1978),<br> Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf (1983), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais (1988), among others.<br> His sculpture was the subject of a major retrospective at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany,<br> in the year 2000. His work is included in many important public and private collections in Europe,<br> Asia and America. A major book was recently published by DuMont (Köln, 2000).<br> <br> From Richard Milazzo, in Abraham David Christian, La Salle des Pieds Perdus<br> (New York  Paris  Turin: Edgewise Press, 1999).<br> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> </font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">ABRAHAM DAVID CHRISTIAN</font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> DIE SPRACHE DES MENSCHEN | THE LANGUAGE OF MAN<br> mit Essays von/with Essays by Thomas Deecke, Peter Friese, Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs und/and Richard Milazzo<br> Neues MuseumWeserburg Bremen | Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal<br> <br> <br> </font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> deutsch:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/02-vorwort.html">Vorwort</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/03-arbeiten.html"> Auf der Suche nach der Sprache des Menschen: Die frühen Arbeiten von Abraham David Christian</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/04-bildungen.html"> Ein  Bildungen<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/05-adc-reist.html"> Abraham David Christian reist<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/06-adc-malen.html">Abraham David Christian: Reisen-Malen</a><br> <br> </font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">english:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/02-preface.html">Preface</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/03-work.html"> In Pursuit of The Language of Man: The Early Works of Abraham David Christian</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/04-bildungen-2.html">Ein  Bildungen<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/05-adc-travels.html"> Abraham David Christian travels</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/06-adc-painting.html"> Abraham David Christian: Travelling-Painting<br> <br> <br> </a></font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Ausstellungskataloge/Exhibition Catalogs:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/07-adc-einzel.html">Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/Solo Exhibitions (Selection)<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/07-adc-gruppen.html">Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/Group Exhibitions (Selection)<br> <br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/08-adc-books.html">Bücher (Auswahl)/Books (Selection)<br> <br> <br> </a></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> deutsch:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/02-vorwort.html">Vorwort</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/03-arbeiten.html"> Auf der Suche nach der Sprache des Menschen: Die frühen Arbeiten von Abraham David Christian</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/04-bildungen.html"> Ein  Bildungen<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/05-adc-reist.html"> Abraham David Christian reist<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/06-adc-malen.html">Abraham David Christian: Reisen-Malen</a><br> <br> </font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">english:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/02-preface.html">Preface</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/03-work.html"> In Pursuit of The Language of Man: The Early Works of Abraham David Christian</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/04-bildungen-2.html">Ein  Bildungen<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/05-adc-travels.html"> Abraham David Christian travels</a><br> <a href="9_find_adc/book/06-adc-painting.html"> Abraham David Christian: Travelling-Painting<br> <br> <br> </a></font><font size="4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Ausstellungskataloge/Exhibition Catalogs:<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="9_find_adc/book/07-adc-einzel.html">Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/Solo Exhibitions (Selection)<br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/07-adc-gruppen.html">Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/Group Exhibitions (Selection)<br> <br> </a><a href="9_find_adc/book/08-adc-books.html">Bücher (Auswahl)/Books (Selection)<br> </a></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> <br> <br> </font><a href="0a_start.html"><font size="4" color="#ed1c24" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Abraham David Christian</font></a><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> <br> <br> </font></p> <div align="center"> </div> <p><a href="9_find_adc/adc_1info.html"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><img src="9_find_adc/button.gif" alt="Abraham David Christian" height="10" width="10" border="0"></font></a></p> </div> </body>