Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
19 December 2008 – 1 March 2009
In all, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) designed something like seventy posters, which are brought together in this exhibit for the first time.
They give an overview of the prolific motives, which fill the world of an artist who, with his trademark dot matrices painted in a two-dimensional plane, became a bye-word for American Pop Art together with Andy Warhol.
Lichtenstein already designed a poster for his first exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1962 – his last dates from the year of his death. The sheets trace the course of his series of works from the 60s through to the 90s.
A number of near-contemporary posters with reproductions will be on view alongside the posters designed by Lichtenstein.
The exhibition, complemented by work by other artists of the American Pop Art School as well as by comprehensive background materials, will give an insight into the work of one of the best-known artists of our times.
On the occasion of this exhibition, the collector Claus von der Osten has donated his almost complete collection of Lichtenstein posters to the Museum.
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