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Board for painting and sculpture /
Arnold Bode, Herbert Freiherr von Buttlar, Ernest Goldschmidt, Will Grohmann, Werner Haftmann, Ernst Holzinger, Kurt Martin, Werner Schmalenbach, Eduard Trier, Hein Stünke; for the American artists / Porter A. McCray, New York

Board for Graphic Design / Arnold Bode, Werner Schmalenbach, Heinrich Stünke

Advisory Council on the Exhibition - Commission for the display of art works / Arnold Bode, Herbert Freiherr von Buttlar, Hans Mettel, Fritz Winter, Heinrich Stünke

Participating Artists / René Charles Acht, Henri-Georges Adam, Hans Aeschbacher, Afro,Gerhard Altenbourg, Karel Appel, Mordechai Ardon, Kenneth Armitage, Hans Arp, Francis Bacon, Vojin Bakiæ, Eduard Bargheer, Heinz Battke, Eugen Batz, Willi Baumeister, Jean Bazaine, William Baziotes, André Beaudin, Gustav Kurt Beck, Max Beckmann, Hans Bellmer, Anna-Eva Bergman, Hubert Berke, Gaston Bertrand, Max Bill, Renato Birolli, Julius Bissier, Roger Bissière, André Bloc, Norman Bluhm, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Bodmer, Anne Bonnet, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Theo Braun, Victor Brauner, James Brooks, Peter Brüning, Carl Buchheister, Alberto Burri, Jan Burssens, Reg Butler, Alexander Calder, Alexander Camaro, Massimo Campigli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Carmelo Cappello, Bruno Cassinari, Sergio de Castro, Giorgio Cavallon, César, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Bernhard Childs, Eduardo Chillida, Giorgio de Chirico, Emil Cimiotti, Antoni Clavé, Henry Cliffe, Otto Coester, Pietro Consagra, Constant, Corneille, Antonio Corpora, Pierre Courtin, Harold B. Cousins, Modesto Cuixart, Karl Fred Dahmen, Alan Davie, Jean Degottex, Jacques Charles Delahaye, Robert Delaunay, Paul Delvaux, André Derain, Jean Jacques Deyrolle, Eugène Dodeigne, Piero Dorazio, Gianni Dova, Jean Dubuffet, Bernard Dufour, Theo Eble, Max Ernst, Maurice Estève, Merlyn Evans, Joseph Faßbender, Jean Fautrier, Pericle Fazzini, Franz Fedier, Luis Feito, Herbert Ferber, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Othon Friesz, Naum Gabo, Winfred Gaul, Rupprecht Geiger, Claude Georges, Jacques Germain, Alberto Giacometti, Emile Gilioli, Werner Gilles, Roger Edgar Gillet, Karl Otto Götz, Michael Goldberg, Bruno Goller, Julio Gonzalez, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Otto Greis, H.A.P. Grieshaber, Juan Gris, Marcel Gromaire, Philip Guston, Terry Haass, Roël d'Haese, Etienne Hajdu, Otto-Herbert Hajek, Simon Hantaï, Fritz Harnest, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hartung, Karl Hartung, Rudolf Hausner, Stanley William Hayter, Bernhard Heiliger, Werner Heldt, Barbara Hepworth, Auguste Herbin, Peter Herkenrath, Ernst Hermanns, Anton Heyboer, Roger Hilton, Gerhard Hoehme, Rudolf Hoflehner, Hans Hofmann, Yûichi Inoue, Rolf Iseli, Robert Jacobsen, F. M. Jansen, Guido Jendritzko, Asger Jorn, Wassily Kandinsky, Tadeusz Kantor, Zoltan Kemeny, Eugène de Kermadec, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Fritz Koenig, Max Kohler, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Norbert Kricke, Rudolf Kügler, Wifredo Lam, Octave Landhuyt, André Lanskoy, Peter Lanyon, Berto Lardera, Ibram Lassaw, Ger Lataster, Henri Laurens, Le Corbusier, Jean Le Moal, Jan Lebenstein, Fernand Léger, Heinz Leinfellner, Osvaldo Licini, Walter Linck, Jacques Lipchitz, Maurice Lipsi, Seymour Lipton, Lucebert, Jean Lurçat, Alberto Magnelli, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevic, Alfred Manessier, Giacomo Manzù, Franz Marc, Conrad Marca-Relli, Gerhard Marcks, Adam Marczynski, André Marfaing, Marino Marini, Albert Marquet, André Masson, Umberto Mastroianni, Ewald Mataré, Georges Mathieu, Henri Matisse, Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff, Matta, Bernard Meadows, Georg Meistermann, Marc Mendelson, Ludwig Merwart, Hans Mettel, Henri Michaux, Leone Minassian, Luciano Minguzzi, Mirko, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Giorgio Morandi, Mattia Moreni, Ennio Morlotti, Richard Mortensen, Robert Motherwell, Max von Mühlenen, Robert Müller, Willi Müller-Hufschmid, Edo Murtic, Zoran Music, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, E. R. Nele, Endre Nemes, Rolf Nesch, Barnett Newman, Ben Nicholson, Isamu Noguchi, Sidney Nolan, Emil Nolde, Richard Oelze, Christian de Orgeix, Fayga Ostrower, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Alicia Penalba, Achille Perilli, Antoine Pevsner, Jean Piaubert, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Pignon, Arthur Luiz Piza, Hans Platschek, Serge Poliakoff, Jackson Pollock, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Gio Pomodoro, Peter Potworowski, Richard Pousette-Dart, Mario Prassinos, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Rebeyrolle, Gerburg Rhode, Germaine Richier, Fritz Riedl, Jean Paul Riopelle, Günter Ferdinand Ris, Otto Ritschl, Kurt Roesch, Hans Rompel, Theodore Roszak, Mark Rothko, Georges Rouault, Rolf Sackenheim, Giuseppe Santomaso, Antonio Saura, Emilio Scanavino, Karl Schaper, Edwin Scharff, Oskar Schlemmer, Gérard Ernest Schneider, Nicolas Schoeffer, Bernard Schultze, Emil Schumacher, Kurt Schwitters, Toti Scialoja, William Scott, André Dunoyer de Ségonzac, Gustav Seitz, Jaroslaw Serpan, Michel Seuphor, Ben Shahn, Josef Síma, Gustave Singier, Mario Sironi, David Smith, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Pierre Soulages, Luigi Spazzapan, Ferdinand Springer, Donald L. Stacy, Toni Stadler, Nicolas de Staël, François Stahly, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Gabrijel Stupica, Kumi Sugai, Graham Sutherland, Árpád Szenes, Shinkichi Tajiri, Pierre Tal-Coat, Rufino Tamayo, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Antoni Tàpies, Yûkei Tejima, Fred Thieler, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Hann Trier, Heinz Trökes, Drago Trsar, Giulio Turcato, Ann Twardowicz, Jack Tworkov, Raoul Ubac, Hans Uhlmann, Louis Van Lint, Victor Vasarely, Emilio Vedova, Geer van Velde, Alberto Viani, Marie Hélène Vieira da Silva, Jacques Villon, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Gerhard Wendland, Hans Werdehausen, Theodor Werner, Gerhard Wind, Fritz Winter, Karl Anton Wolf, Wols, Fritz Wotruba, Woty, Bryan Wynter, Taiho Yamazaki, Ossip Zadkine, Mac Zimmermann, Unica Zürn

Fridericianum, first floor

d2 1959 / Fridericianum / first floor / room 25


Arnold Bode in front of Jackson Pollock, No. 32, 1950

photo: Werner Lengemann; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Fridericianum / first floor / room 25


ARTIST /

Jackson Pollock
TITLE /
No. 32, 1950

photo: Werner Lengemann; © documenta Archiv

Fridericianum, second floor

d2 1959 / Fridericianum / second floor / room 36


from left to right /
Karl Anton Wolf, Turmbau, 1958; Gerhard Wendland, Es war einmal, 1959; Karl Anton Wolf, Babylonischer Turm, 1958

photographer unknown; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Fridericianum / second floor / room 36


ARTIST /

Asger Jorn
TITLE /
Ausverkauf einer Seele, 1958

photo: bequest of Arnold Bode; © documenta Archiv

Karlsaue

d2 1959 / Orangerie


ARTIST/
Pablo Picasso
TITLE/
Les Beigneurs, 1957

photo: Hans Braun; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Orangerie


foreground /

Ossip Zadkine, La Ville Détruite, 1951/53
background /
François Stahly, Les Oiseaux, 1959

photo: Günther Becker; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Orangerie / Karlswiese


ARTIST /
Luciano Minguzzi
TITLE /
Gli Aquiloni, 1958

from left to right /
Alexander Calder, Hextopus, 1955; Berto Lardera, Entre deux mondes, 1951/52; Edwin Scharff, Pandora, 1952/53

photographer unknown; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Orangerie / Karlswiese


from left to right /

Alexander Calder, Hextopus, 1955; Edwin Scharff, Pandora, 1952/53

photo: Klaus Täckelburg; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Orangerie / Karlswiese



from left to right /

Edwin Scharff, Pandora, 1952/53; Roël d’Haese, Combat avec l’Ange, 1958; Carmelo Cappello, La Baronessa, 1958; Luciano Minguzzi, Gli Aquiloni, 1958; Marino Marini, Komposition, 1956-57

photo: Stadt- und Kreisbildstelle; © documenta Archiv

d2 1959 / Orangerie / Karlswiese


ARTIST /

Alexander Calder
TITLE /
Hextopus, 1955

from left to right /
Berto Lardera, Entre deux mondes, 1951/52; Roël d' Haese, Combat avec l'ange, 1958; Carmelo Cappello, La Baronessa, 1958; Ossip Zadkine, La ville détruite, 1951-53; François Stahly, Les Oiseaux, 1959

photographer unknown; © documenta Archiv
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