Public sculptures in Jena: American artist Frank Stella has died

Stella was born in Massachusetts in 1936 and moved to New York in the 1950s. There he was inspired by the so-called New York School – from the action painting of Jackson Pollock, who dabbed paint over a canvas in a unique way with a stick, or from Mark Rothko, who primarily painted monochrome surfaces.

Later, Stella caused a stir with completely black paintings, a shock to the art world. As his career progressed, Stella experimented more and more with color, but continued to play with geometric shapes. For example, he created several paintings with stacked squares in gradating colors that create a spatial effect.