, The wrapping artist Christo who wrapped the Reichstag building, is dead. He died in New York at the age of 84 years.

The artist Christo is dead, He died in old age in New York Known to the artist in Germany was with the veiling of the Reichstag

New York – The artist Christo , the covered 25 years ago, the Reichstag building in Berlin, is dead. He died in New York at the age of 84 years, his site has been notified and his office confirmed on Sunday evening the German press Agency.

artist Christo in New York died: He wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin

on Twitter to the death of the artist was confirmed. In the message it was said that Christo on Sunday (31.05.2020) passed away in his home in New York City.

among the most famous of its worldwide realized projects, the saffron-colored gates in New York’s Central Park (“The Gates”), the floating end, with a nylon fabric-based webs on the water of lake Iseo in Lombardy (“Floating Piers”) and the 1995 wrapped Reichstag in Berlin and the wrapped Pont Neuf in Paris.

artist Christo at the age of 84 died: some from many miles of its installations were to be seen

The part from many miles away-visible installations, about the “Valley Curtain” in Colorado, or yellow and blue giant umbrellas in Japan and California (“The Umbrellas”), written soon only in the Team. With his wife, Jeanne-Claude, with which he appeared since the 90s, always as a Duo, fought Christo from the first plans up to the realization of a project part for several decades.

died from Casablanca in Morocco, and on the same day as Christ -born Jeanne-Claude in 2009 at the age of 74 in New York of a brain haemorrhage.

Christo in New York died: A deeper meaning he saw in his art never

Who believed that Christo saw in his silver Reichstag in Berlin, or its bright-yellow, floating-wrapped ribs on a lake in Italy any deeper meaning, of the was wrong. “It is totally irrational and pointless,” said the Bulgarian-American wrapping artist of 2014 about his Work. However, the beauty of its abstract objects transformed buildings and landscapes, has fascinated millions.

(dpa)

The wrap artists Christo* wanted to wrap up in the autumn of this year, the Parisian Arc de Triomphe.

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