“A self-taught artist, John Willenbecher (b. 1936) initially got down to be an artwork historian. Born within the Lehigh Valley in Pensylvania, he attended Brown College after which he took three years of graduate research in artwork historical past at NYU’s Institute of High quality Arts. After a six month wanderjahr, touring in Europe, Willenbecher returned to New York resolved, to change into an artist. Seeing The Artwork of Assemblage, a groundbreaking exhibition on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in 1961, solidified his willpower. Willenbecher’s earliest works had been drastically impressed by Joseph Cornell, and people compositions developed into the game-like constructions that landed Willenbecher his first exhibition in 1963 at Feigen+Herbert, New York. Donald Judd, reviewing the present, stated “The types of that means Willenbecher is coping with are fascinating. Insofar as artwork is philosophical that is related, plausible philosophy, which, since it’s within the artwork, takes artwork. For gross sales inquiries: sendtojbw@gmail.com
