Donald Judd

Donald Judd

Donald Judd was considered a pioneer of minimal art. This artist from the USA worked as a painter, as a sculptor and even as an architect. After studying philosophy and art history in New York, he wrote as a freelance art critic for various art magazines.

He began his career as an artist in the 1950s. Judd initially created two-dimensional works: figurative and abstract paintings. From the 1960s onwards, he turned to three-dimensional objects. For these, Judd used commercial materials, such as aluminium, Plexiglas, steel, wood and copper. His intention was to realise stand-alone three-dimensional objects that referred to nothing beyond their own presence.

Double Wall Piece, 1987

Enamelled Aluminum, in 2 parts

each 30 x 360 x 30 cm

(each 11-13/16 x 141-3/4 x 11-13/16 inches)

Provenance: Galerie Lelong, Paris

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Donald Judd: sculpture double wall piece

Exhibited:

Kunstmuseum Basel, 02.10.2004–09.01.2005

K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 19.06.–05.09.2004;

"Donald Judd", Tate Modern, London, 05.02.–25.04.2004;

Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, 07.10.2000–21.01.2001

Kunsthaus Bregenz, 13.5.–02.07.2000;

"Donald Judd: Farbe", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 16.01.–30.4.2000;

Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, 1987

Literature:

"Donald Judd", Tate Modern, London, 2004, No. 31, ilI. pp. 222/223

"Donald Judd. Farbe", Publication on the occasion of the exhibition at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2000, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2000 (illustrated in colour pp. 64 and 65)