Andy WARHOL
(1928 – 1987)
American artist, filmmaker and publisher as well as co-founder and most important representative of American Pop Art: 1928 born in Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania | 1945-1949 studies commercial art at the “Carnegie Institute of Technology” in Pittsburgh (now “Carnegie Mellon University”), graduates with a degree in painting and design | early 1950s lives off odd jobs as a commercial artist, window dresser or selling fruit and vegetables on the street | 1956 exhibition at “Museum of Modern Art” in New York | 1962 founds studio called “factory” | 1968 critically injured by multiple gunshot wounds | 1987 died in Manhattan
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