Documenta 1959
Documenta 1959 showcased avant-garde art, continuing post-war modernism in Kassel, Germany.
Documenta 1959 was the second edition of the prominent contemporary art exhibition, held in Kassel, Germany. Following the success of the 1955 edition, Documenta 1959 continued the mission of showcasing modern and contemporary art in post-war Germany. Featuring both well-established artists and emerging talents, this edition further solidified Documenta’s role in shaping the international art discourse. The exhibition brought together works from notable artists such as Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuși, and Joan Miró, along with a diverse array of avant-garde movements, reflecting the evolving landscape of 20th-century art. Documenta 1959 was instrumental in presenting abstract and non-representational art to a wider audience and continues to be remembered as a landmark in the history of modern art.
Participating Artists
Kenneth Armitage
Massimo Campigli
Emil Cimiotti
Eugen Batz
Carmelo Cappello
Fritz Koenig
Julio Gonzalez
Karel Appel
André Derain
Willi Baumeister
Lynn Chadwick
Herbert Ferber
Rudolf Hausner
Theo Eble
Rudolf Kügler
Rolf Iseli
1860–1969, 1970s, 1970–present
Reg Butler
Octave Landhuyt
Alan Davie
Conrad Marca-Relli
Henri Laurens
Berto Lardera
Bernard Meadows
Barbara Hepworth
Umberto Mastroianni
Constantin Brâncuşi
Marc Mendelson
Georges Mathieu
Franz Marc
Pierre Courtin
Jean Piaubert
André Lanskoy
Roger Edgar Gillet
Victor Pasmore
Antoine Pevsner
Eduardo Chillida
James Brooks
Fayga Ostrower
Carl Buchheister
Peter Lanyon
Peter Brüning
Renato Birolli
Theodoros Stamos
Bruno Cassinari
Karl Hartung
Joan Miró
Werner Gilles
Oskar Kokoschka
Ewald Mataré
Alfred Manessier
Karl Fred Dahmen
Robert Jacobsen
Adolph Gottlieb
Pietro Consagra
Heinz Battke
William Baziotes
Gustav Kurt Beck
Karl Anton Wolf
Jacques Germain
Robert Delaunay
Werner Heldt
Max Beckmann
Henry Moore
Antonio Saura
Heinz Trökes
Bryan Wynter
Theo Braun
Julius Bissier
Bernhard Childs
Henry Cliffe
Hans Hartung
Franz Fedier
Giorgio de Chirico
Juan Gris
Lucio Fontana
Hans Werdehausen
Alberto Burri
Otto Greis
Rudolf Hoflehner
Joan Mitchell
Endre Nemes
Gerhard Wendland
Henri Michaux
Ludwig Merwart
Rufino Tamayo
Emile Gilioli
Emilio Scanavino
Franz Kline
Roger Bissière
Jean Fautrier
Fritz Harnest
Hans Platschek
Eugène Dodeigne
Hans Bellmer
Barnett Newman
Tadeusz Kantor
Victor Brauner
Stanley William Hayter
Richard Oelze
Guido Jendritzko
Max Kohler
Modesto Cuixart
Peter Herkenrath
André Beaudin
Ossip Zadkine
Peter Potworowski
Norbert Kricke
Ger Lataster
Robert Motherwell
Otto-Herbert Hajek
Pericle Fazzini
Hans Hofmann
Max Ernst
Alicia Penalba
Ibram Lassaw
Sam Francis
Hubert Berke
Isamu Noguchi
Edo Murtic
Anton Heyboer
Norman Bluhm
Gio Pomodoro
Emil Schumacher
Clyfford Still
Toti Scialoja
Taiho Yamazaki
Henri-Georges Adam
Paul Rebeyrolle
Umberto Boccioni
Walter Bodmer
Jean Degottex
Gianni Dova
Joseph Faßbender
Jean Dubuffet
Claude Georges
Roger Hilton
Terry Haass
Henri Matisse
Paul Klee
Gerhard Marcks
Gerhard Hoehme
Bernard Dufour
Antoni Clavé
Georges Braque
Eduard Bargheer
Jacques Charles Delahaye
Antonio Corpora
Marino Marini
Zoltan Kemeny
André Dunoyer de Ségonzac
Gaston Bertrand
André Marfaing
Marcel Gromaire
Giuseppe Capogrossi
Alberto Giacometti
Alexander Calder
Hans Aeschbacher
Winfred Gaul
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Max Bill
Heinrich Kirchner
Jackson Pollock
Alexander Camaro
Bradley Walker Tomlin
Kumi Sugai
Robert Müller
Otto Ritschl
Harold B. Cousins
Shinkichi Tajiri
Willem de Kooning
Hans Mettel
Georg Meistermann
Mattia Moreni
Adam Marczynski
Philip Guston
Mark Tobey
Gustav Seitz
André Masson
Michael Goldberg
Edwin Scharff
Toni Stadler
Yûkei Tejima
Anne Bonnet
André Bloc
Bernhard Heiliger
Jean Paul Riopelle
Graham Sutherland
Drago Trsar
Dorothea Tanning
Hans Rompel
Ann Twardowicz
Merlyn Evans
Otto Coester
Auguste Herbin
Richard Mortensen
Othon Friesz
Grace Hartigan
Simon Hantaï
Vojin Bakić
Germaine Richier
Bruno Goller
Giorgio Cavallon
Ernst Hermanns
Paul Delvaux
Leone Minassian
Max von Mühlenen
Etienne Hajdu
Achille Perilli
Árpád Szenes
Christian de Orgeix
Anna-Eva Bergman
Ennio Morlotti
Jean Jacques Deyrolle
Giorgio Morandi
Gabrijel Stupica
Karl Schaper
Theodor Werner
Theodore Roszak
Piero Dorazio
Hans Uhlmann
Kurt Roesch
Hann Trier
Emilio Vedova
Asger Jorn
Maurice Estève
Helen Frankenthaler
Rupprecht Geiger
Edouard Pignon
François Stahly
Yves Tanguy
Giulio Turcato
Alberto Viani
Jack Tworkov
Oskar Schlemmer
William Scott
Raoul Ubac
Fred Thieler
Arthur Luiz Piza
Giuseppe Santomaso
Luis Feito
Kurt Schwitters
Mac Zimmermann
Fritz Wotruba
Mario Prassinos
Ben Nicholson
Fritz Winter
Unica Zürn
Gerhard Wind
Jan Burssens
Corneille
Naum Gabo
Karl Otto Götz
Jean Bazaine
Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner
Afro
Sergio de Castro
Gérard Schneider
Wassily Kandinsky
HAP Grieshaber
Constant
Jean Le Moal
Giacomo Manzù
César
Gerburg Rohde
Woty Werner
E. R. Nele
Mordechai Ardon
Gerhard Altenbourg
Jacques Villon
Jan Lebenstein
Mirko
Wifredo Lam
Rolf Nesch
Nicolas de Staël
Hans Arp
Emil Nolde
Sidney Nolan
Geer van Velde
Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff
Richard Pousette-Dart
Le Corbusier
Willi Müller-Hufschmid
Eugène de Kermadec
Piet Mondrian
Albert Marquet
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Michel Seuphor
Arshile Gorky
Wols
Eduardo Paolozzi
Roberto Matta
Jaroslaw Serpan
Nicolas Schoeffer
Antoni Tàpies
Franz M. Jansen
Roël d'Haese
René Acht
Pablo Picasso
Louis Van Lint
Robert Rauschenberg
Serge Poliakoff
Marie Hélène Vieira da Silva
Georges Rouault
Victor Vasarely
Mark Rothko
Pierre Tal-Coat
Günter Ferdinand Ris
Fritz Riedl
Kasimir Malevic
Bernard Schultze