Performance artist and photographer known for his partnership with Marina AbramovićHad you been passing the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin at lunchtime on 12 December 1976, you might have seen an athletic young man, pursued by guards, racing out of the building with a painting under his arm. The picture was Der Arme Poet (The Poor Poet, 1839), by the Biedermeier artist Carl Spitzweg. The young man was called Uwe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM on March 11, 2020