THOMAS DELLERT
As a contemporary, provocative art photographer, he was then working under the name of Dellacroix in symbiosis with former wife and partner Agnieszka Dellert-dellfina between 2000 to 2008 when they divorced and went separate ways.
He has also collaborated with photographer Ellen von Unwerth, Bruno Ehrs, Raphael Yoshitomi, and
Philipp Mueller.
He now lives and works with artist
Vava Venezia since 2013.
Death and Fame is a central theme in Dellert's works, and he uses irony and humor mixed with horror as one of his main tools. His work has a strong, humanistic approach, and he uses powerful images to show the horrors of war and genocide.
After meeting Andy Warhol in 1976, he made a series of hand-printed silkscreens collaborating with his childhood friends Bruno Ehrs and Rainer Laakso. These art prints were presented to Warhol in his Factory in New York in 1980. A well-documented event. He then inspired Warhol with his camouflage prints that later became Warhol's own art expression. The same happened with artist
Jean Michel Basquiat who visited Dellert's exhibit in New York in 1982. All paintings by Dellert were then framed with ropes larger than canvas in hand-built wood frames. After the exhibition, Thomas left all frames on the street outside the art gallery on St Marks Place, a few meters away from the home of Basquiat, Who then brought them home, and this new framing technique became his trademark. Art history in the making.
Top: Rubber Fetish Mouse Couple Singer and artist Curtis Jones
70 x 100 cm on aluminium and plexiglass. Limited edition Signed and numbered with certificate.
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