II. documenta

1959 art exhibition in Kassel, West Germany

II. documenta was the second edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 11 July and 1 October 1959 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Arnold Bode in collaboration with art historian Werner Haftmann.[1]

## Participants

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René Acht | Henri-Georges Adam | Hans Aeschbacher | Afro (Afro Basaldella) | Gerhard Altenbourg |
Karel Appel | Mordecai Ardon | Kenneth Armitage | Hans Arp |

Francis Bacon | Vojin Bakić | Eduard Bargheer | Heinz Battke | Eugen Batz
Willi Baumeister | Jean Bazaine | William Baziotes | André Beaudin | Gustav Kurt Beck
Max Beckmann | Hans Bellmer | Anna-Eva Bergman | Hubert Berke | Gaston Bertrand
Max Bill | Renato Birolli | Julius Bissier | Roger Bissière | André Bloc
Norman Bluhm | Umberto Boccioni | Walter Bodmer | Anne Bonnet | Constantin Brâncuși
Georges Braque | Theo Braun | Victor Brauner | James Brooks | Peter Brüning
Carl Buchheister | Alberto Burri | Jan Burssens | Reg Butler |

Alexander Calder | Alexander Camaro | Massimo Campigli | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Carmelo Cappello
Bruno Cassinari | Sergio de Castro | César Baldaccini | Lynn Chadwick | Marc Chagall
Bernard Childs | Eduardo Chillida | Giorgio de Chirico | Emil Cimiotti | Antoni Clavé
Henry Cliffe | Otto Coester | Pietro Consagra | Constant Nieuwenhuys | Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
Antonio Corpora | Pierre Courtin | Harold B. Cousins | Modest Cuixart

Karl Fred Dahmen | Alan Davie | Jean Degottex | Jacques Charles Delahaye | Robert Delaunay
Paul Delvaux | André Derain | Jean Deyrolle | Eugène Dodeigne | Piero Dorazio
Gianni Dova | Jean Dubuffet | Bernard Dufour

Theo Eble | Max Ernst | Maurice Estève | Merlyn Oliver Evans

Joseph Fassbender | Jean Fautrier | Pericle Fazzini | Franz Fedier | Luis Feito
Herbert Ferber | Lucio Fontana | Nino Franchina | Sam Francis | Helen Frankenthaler
Othon Friesz

Naum Gabo | Winfried Gaul | Rupprecht Geiger | Claude Georges | Jacques Germain
Alberto Giacometti | Émile Gilioli | Werner Gilles | Roger-Edgar Gillet | Michael Goldberg
Bruno Goller | Julio González | Arshile Gorky | Adolph Gottlieb | Karl Otto Götz
Otto Greis | HAP Grieshaber | Juan Gris | Marcel Gromaire | Philip Guston

Terry Haass | Roel D’Haese | Étienne Hajdú | Otto Herbert Hajek | Simon Hantaï
Fritz Harnest | Grace Hartigan | Hans Hartung | Karl Hartung | Rudolf Hausner
Stanley William Hayter | Bernhard Heiliger | Werner Heldt | Barbara Hepworth | Auguste Herbin
Peter Herkenrath | Ernst Hermanns | Anton Heyboer | Roger Hilton | Gerhard Hoehme
Rudolf Hoflehner | Hans Hofmann

Yūichi Inoue | Rolf Iseli

Robert Jacobsen | Franz M. Jansen | Guido Jendritzko | Asger Jorn

Wassily Kandinsky | Tadeusz Kantor | Zoltán Kemény | Eugène de Kermadec | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Heinrich Kirchner | Paul Klee | Franz Kline | Fritz Koenig | Max Kohler
Oskar Kokoschka | Willem de Kooning | Norbert Kricke | Rudolf Kügler

Wifredo Lam | Octave Landuyt | André Lanskoy | Peter Lanyon | Berto Lardera
Ibram Lassaw | Ger Lataster | Henri Laurens | Jan Lebenstein | Le Corbusier
Fernand Léger | Heinz Leinfellner | Jean Le Moal | Osvaldo Licini | Walter Linck
Jacques Lipchitz | Morice Lipsi | Seymour Lipton | Lucebert | Jean Lurçat

Alberto Magnelli | René Magritte | Kazimir Malevich | Alfred Manessier | Giacomo Manzù
Franz Marc | Conrad Marca-Relli | Gerhard Marcks | Adam Marczyński | André Marfaing
Marino Marini | Albert Marquet | André Masson | Umberto Mastroianni | Ewald Mataré
Georges Mathieu | Henri Matisse | Roberto Matta | Bernard Meadows | Matschinsky-Denninghoff
Georg Meistermann | Marc Mendelson | Ludwig Merwart | Hans Mettel | Henri Michaux
Leone Minassian | Luciano Minguzzi | Mirko Basaldella | Joan Miró | Joan Mitchell
Piet Mondrian | Henry Moore | Giorgio Morandi | Mattia Moreni | Ennio Morlotti
Richard Mortensen | Robert Motherwell | Max von Mühlenen | Robert Müller | Willi Müller-Hufschmid
Edo Murtić | Zoran Mušič

Ernst Wilhelm Nay | Renee Nele | Endre Nemes | Rolf Nesch | Barnett Newman
Ben Nicholson | Isamu Noguchi | Sidney Nolan | Emil Nolde |

Richard Oelze | Christian d’Orgeix | Fayga Ostrower

Eduardo Paolozzi | Victor Pasmore | Alicia Penalba | Achille Perilli | Antoine Pevsner
Jean Piaubert | Pablo Picasso | Édouard Pignon | Arthur Luiz Piza | Hans Platschek
Serge Poliakoff | Jackson Pollock | Arnaldo Pomodoro | Giò Pomodoro | Piotr Potworowski
Richard Pousette-Dart | Mario Prassinos |  |  |

Robert Rauschenberg | Paul Rebeyrolle | Germaine Richier | Fritz Riedl | Jean-Paul Riopelle
Günter Ferdinand Ris | Otto Ritschl | Kurt Roesch | Gerburg Rohde | Hans Rompel
Theodore Roszak | Mark Rothko | Georges Rouault

Rolf Sackenheim | Giuseppe Santomaso | Antonio Saura | Emilio Scanavino | Karl Schaper
Edwin Scharff | Oskar Schlemmer | Gérard Ernest Schneider | Nicolas Schöffer | Bernard Schultze
Emil Schumacher | Kurt Schwitters | Toti Scialoja | William Scott | André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Gustav Seitz | Jaroslaw Serpan | Michel Seuphor | Ben Shahn | Josef Šíma
Gustave Singier | Mario Sironi | David Smith | K.R.H. Sonderborg | Pierre Soulages
Luigi Spazzapan | Ferdinand Springer | Toni Stadler | Nicolas de Staël | François Stahly
Theodoros Stamos | Clyfford Still | Gabrijel Stupica | Kumi Sugai | Graham Sutherland
Arpad Szenès |  |  |  |  |

Shinkichi Tajiri | Pierre Tal-Coat | Rufino Tamayo | Yves Tanguy | Dorothea Tanning
Antoni Tàpies | Yūkei Tejima | Fred Thieler | Mark Tobey | Bradley Walker Tomlin
Hann Trier | Heinz Trökes | Drago Tršar | Giulio Turcato | Ann Twardowicz
Jack Tworkov |  |  |  |

Raoul Ubac | Hans Uhlmann

Louis Van Lint | Victor Vasarely | Emilio Vedova | Geer van Velde | Alberto Viani
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | Jacques Villon | Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Gerhard Wendland | Hans Werdehausen | Theodor Werner | Gerhard Wind | Fritz Winter
Karl Anton Wolf | Wols | Fritz Wotruba | Woty Werner | Bryan Wynter

Taihô Yamazaki

Ossip Zadkine | Mac Zimmermann | Unica Zürn

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documenta

* documenta 1955
* II. documenta 1959
* documenta III 1964
* 4\. documenta 1968
* documenta 5 1972
* documenta 6 1977
* documenta 7 1982
* documenta 8 1987
* DOCUMENTA IX 1992
* documenta X 1997
* Documenta11 2002
* documenta 12 2007
* dOCUMENTA (13) 2012
* documenta 14 2017
* documenta fifteen 2022

## References

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1. ^ Ausstellungskatalog: II. documenta ’59. Kunst nach 1945; Katalog: Band 1: Malerei; Band 2: Skulptur; Band 3: Druckgrafik; Textband. Kassel/Köln 1959

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