8 March 2008 – 3 August 2008

MIROSLAV TICHY

Having trained at the Prague Academy of Art, in the late 1940s Tichy initially tried his luck as a painter and drawer. Yet the totalitarian conditions and his own personal experiences alienated him more and more from the official artistic and cultural scene. Tichy withdrew completely before one day beginning to take photographs. Day in day out using simple cameras he had for the most part assembled himself, he pursued the female part of his Czech home town. For thirty years. Time and again Tichy would stand by the fence of the swimming pool watching the girls. Gradually beginning to neglect his outward appearance he grew a beard, his hair became long and matted, his clothes nothing more than rags. Most children were afraid of him. They thought his cameras were just dummies, and that in reality he wasn’t taking any photos at all. His apartment resembled that of a chaotic handyman.

Address

Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstrasse 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main
phone +49 69 21 23 04 47
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday till 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The basis of the museum is the heritage of the collector Karl Ströher with its rough 65 works of Pop- and Minimal-Art. Among others there are work groups of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol

opened 1991; Architects: Hans Hollein

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