After studying sculpture in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba, this artist moved to Paris where he closed down the Rue Visconti in order to display his work Iron Curtain.
After studying sculpture in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba, this artist moved to Paris where he closed down the Rue Visconti in order to display his work Iron Curtain. An associate of the photographer Wolgang Volz, he is also known for such works as the multi-colored The Wall and the sausage-shaped Air Package. Worker Masaaki Nakamura was electrocuted (*) while trying to remove one of the 3,000 blue or yellow title objects comprising one of this artist's works, while another of his works was over 24 miles in length and was contained within two California counties. Pink polypropylene surrounded eleven islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay in a 1983 project, while in 1995 he applied his technique of "empaquetage" to the Reichstag in Berlin. This creator of Umbrellas and Running Fence requested that no flowers be sent after the death of his wife Jean-Claude, whose last completed project was a series of orange structures in Central Park. For 10 points, name this Bulgarian-born artist best known for wrapping various objects and designing The Gates project.
After studying sculpture in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba, this artist moved to Paris where he closed down the Rue Visconti in order to display his work Iron Curtain.
{Christo Javacheff} [accept either name]