Yves Klein

Air Architecture

Photo, 1959

Yves Klein and Werner Ruhnau during a test for a Wall of Fire

Photo, 1961

Yves Klein behind the "Wall of Fire" during the exhibition "Yves Klein Monochrome und Feuer" at the Museum Haus Lange

Photo, 1961

Yves Klein behind the "Column of Fire" during the exhibition "Yves Klein Monochrome und Feuer" at the Museum Haus Lange

Photo, 1961

"Fountain of Fire" at the exhibition "Yves Klein Monochrome und Feuer", Museum Haus Lange

Fire Paintings

Document, 1964

Invitation card for the exhibition "Yves Klein Peintures de feu" at the Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Gelsenkirchen Opera Theater

Photo, 1959

Yves Klein on the site of the Gelsenkirchen Opera Theater

Photo, 1959

International collaboration between artists and architects in the realisation of the new Gelsenkirchen Opera House

Photo, 1959

Yves Klein as a conductor in the Gelsenkirchen’s Opera-Theater

Photo, 1959

Yves Klein on the site of the Gelsenkirchen Opera Theater

Editorial, 2020, Frédéric Migayrou

"The Gelsenkirchen opera house", by Frédéric Migayrou

At the time of his exhibition at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf in May 1957, Klein made contact with the members of the ZERO group, including Norbert Kricke. Kricke invited him to take part in a competition for an artistic intervention at the opera-theatre in Gelsenkirchen.Werner Ruhnau, the architect for the project, had met Klein in Paris a month earlier at the ‘Norbert Kricke’ exhibition at the Iris Clert gallery, and a year after he had been commissioned by the theatre and opened...

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Artwork, 1957

Untitled Blue Monochrome made for the Hall of the Gelsenkirchen Opera-Theater

Movie, 1959

Inauguration of the Gelsenkirchen Opera