Valerio Adami, Helmut Heißenbüttel

VALERIO ADAMI (Bologna, Italy, 1935); HELMUT HEIBENBÜTTEL (Germany, 1921-1996).
"Das Reich".1974.
10 lithographs illustrated by Valerio Adami.
Text by Helmut Heissenbüttel.
Copy 26/150.
Signed in pencil by Heissenbüttel.
Maeght Publishing House.
In protective box.
Measurements: 50 x42 cm (book).

Painter, designer and engraver, Valerio Adami was formed in Achille Funi's study and in the Academy of Brera in Milan, and later he settles in Paris, in 1957. In 1962 he held his first important exhibition in London, and shortly after participated in Documenta III in Kassel. His success was rapid, and in 1968 he represented Italy at the Venice Biennale. During these years he painted four large murals at the headquarters of the Firstar Bank in Madison (USA). In 1985 anthological exhibitions are dedicated to him at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and at the Communo in Milan, and in 1993 the Academy-Foundation Adami is created in Liechtenstein. He is currently represented at the MoMA in New York, the Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia, the SMAK in Ghent, the Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Trento, among others.

Helmut Heißenbüttel was a German novelist and poet. Heißenbüttel's works include Das Textbuch (The Textbook) and Marlowe's Ende (The End of Marlowe). He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1969. Among other awards, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse (1979) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1990).