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Basic Data
Tony Cragg is one of the most famous sculptors of the 21st century. An international audience knew him through his participation in several Biennales in Venice, São Paulo and Sydney and through his work as rector at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf.
- Date of Birth: April 9, 1949
- Birthplace: Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Nationality: British/German
- Studies: Wimbledon School of Art; Royal College of Art
- Style: sculpture, drawings
- Era: Contemporary Art
Craggs artworks are influenced by a variety of materials, such as wood, stone and metal. But also for everyday waste Cragg finds use. He consists predominantly of movement and structures apart and manufactures of unique sculptures to show the organic and biomorphic forms.
Tony Cragg Art For Sale
Tony Cragg for sale
You are interested in works by the British artist Tony Cragg? In our online art gallery you will find under Tony Cragg artworks and editions a selection of works by the artist. Here we offer them in addition to unique pieces and handsigned and numbered limited edition litographs.
Artworks by Tony Cragg
Currently you can buy in our art store two Tony Cragg artworks. These are works on paper by the British artist, which were created in the 1990s. Both prints have a strong handwritten signature of the artist on the bottom right.
In addition, we are pleased to offer them the unique o.T. I composition for sale. It is a pencil drawing on light cardboard, to which Cragg added accents of watercolor. The 29.7 x 42 cm sheet shows a composition of volumetric bodies. Through the dynamic pencil work of thin undulating lines, they appear to rotate on their own axis. Thus, this unique artwork is reminiscent of Tony Cragg's famous spine sculptures.
You will also find the pencil drawing o.T. II composition in our assortment. The 29.7 x 42 cm work on paper shows the composition of various shapes, surfaces and patterns reminiscent of vessels such as vases, amphorae or jugs, in a floating dynamic state.
Prints by Tony Cragg
In addition to the selection of unique artworks, you can also buy some Tony Cragg limited edition prints in our online art gallery.
The prints Receiver I and Receiver II are lithographs, which the artist has worked out in red and blue color. They were created in an edition of 40 copies and are both handsigned and numbered. The 50 x 63 cm prints show several representations of satellite dishes.
In addition to these lithographs, we currently also have small-format etchings in our program. One is the handsigned work Wüste (Desert) from 1994, which was published by the Griffelkunst Vereinigung. It shows the depiction of the outlines of various vessels, over which a layer of expressive strokes and lines. In the etching Das Neblige from the same year, the artist also works with a fast, dynamic line work. Cragg's abstract print was executed on a firm yellowish handmade paper and measures 34.5 x 40 cm.
In addition, you can buy other Tony Cragg originals, such as Administred Landscape II and Administered Landscape. These prints were created in an edition of between 20 and 98 copies and are each signed by the artist.
Sculptures by Tony Cragg
British artist Tony Cragg is also a sculptor, making sculptures that are influenced by his characteristic organic-technical formal language. You would like to buy sculptural works by Tony Cragg ? Then you are welcome to contact us.
Biography
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Childhood and studies
Tony Cragg was born on April 9,1949 as Anthony Douglas Cragg in Liverpool. He was the son of an electrical engineer. Cragg spent his childhood in the United Kingdom. After successful completion of high school, he initially wanted to pursue a career in science. Between 1966 and 1968 he became a biotechnical assistant. During this time he made his first drawings and landscapes. Cragg had always a passion for art. For this reason, he started a basic course at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design in 1969. He completed it in 1970. In order to fully pursue an artistic career, he began to study in London at the Wimbledon College of Art. There he was educated by Roger Ackling and Jim Rogers. Through them he came into contact with the sculpture art form. In 1973 he graduated successfully and was then educated until 1977 at the Royal College of Art in the field of sculpture. After completing his studies, Cragg left the United Kingdom and moved to Wuppertal in Germany.
Teaching activity
Before Cragg came to Germany, he worked in a university teaching position at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Metz (France). From 1978 he taught at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Ten years later he was appointed as a professor and worked until 2001 as such in Düsseldorf. After that, he became a professor for sculpture at Universität der Künste in Berlin, but held always the pro-rector position in Düsseldorf. In 2009 he was the rector of the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and was the successor of Markus Lüpertz. In 2013 Cragg resigned and Rita McBride became the new rector. In his time as professor and rector in Düsseldorf, artists like Tina Beifuss, Florian Neufeldt and Constantin Wallhäuser were his students.
In 2015 Cragg was awarded an honorary membership at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. In addition he became an honorary citizen in the city Wuppertal, where Cragg lives and works.
Exhibitions and prices
Since the 1980s, Tony Cragg was a representative of the “New British Sculpture” and is still one of the most important mediators of contemporary sculptural art in England. Cragg participated with his art in numerous exhibitions. He was part of documenta 7 (1982) and 8 (1987) in Kassel. In addition, he was the representative for England at the Venice Biennale in 1988. Participations at the Biennales in Sao Paolo and Sydney followed.
In 1985 Tony Cragg was already nominated for the prestigious British Turner Prize, but it went to Howard Hodgkin. But he could look forward, when three years later in 1988, he received the price himself.
Sculpture Park Waldfrieden
In 2006, Tony Cragg acquired a 12-hectare estate in the forest area Christbusch in Wuppertal. Cragg purchased the private park in private initiative in order to offer his art a fixed place to be exhibited. In 2008, the sculpture park was completed and opened under the auspices of the charitable foundation “Cragg Foundation”.
The park currently shows 19 works by Tony Cragg from different materials such as bronze, metal and steel. Yet, in changing exhibitions also numerous other international artists such as Jan Fabre, Jean Tinguely, John Chamberlain and Eduardo Chillida are displayed. For this purpose an extra exhibition hall by the architect Rudolf Hoppe was built. New sculptures continue to be added. The sculpture park is not only an exhibition space, it is also a space for concerts and cultural lectures.
Exhibitions
Current exhibitions
- 23.09.2023 – 25.05.2025 Terrific: Fascination Würth Collection – Museum Würth, Künzelsau.
- 04.05.2023 – 04.05.2024 Floating Islands – ISTANBUL MODERN, Istanbul.
Past exhibitions
- 2023 Cragg - Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich
- 2022 Tony Cragg – Drawing as a Continuum – Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
- 2022 Love Stories - SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
- 2021 Leunora Salihu. Pieces - Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
- 2021 Joseph Beuys – Perpetual Motion - Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
- 2021 Nasher Mixtape - Nasher Sculpture Center
- 2020 IN ALLER MUNDE ... - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
- 2020 THERE IS ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS - SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
- 2020 MEHR : WERT - Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal
- 2020 Tony Cragg - Nosbaum Reding Luxemburg
- 2019 Michael Müller. "DEINE KUNST" The Conditions of Being Art (oder der Amateur) Dritte Fassung - Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
- 2019 POSTCARD RELOADED - Kunstraum Potsdam c/o Waschhaus, Potsdam
- 2019 Tony Cragg - New Works - Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
- 2018 TONY CRAGG. ENDLESS FORM - Nivola Museum, Orani
- 2018 TONY CRAGG - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
- 2017 Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Drawings - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
- 2017 Tony Cragg - Unnatural Selection - Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
- 2016 Tony Cragg. Retrospektive – Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
- 2016 Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Drawings - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS2015 Skulptur – Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
- 2015 Artists and their Time – Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
- 2014 Neue Arbeiten – Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
- 2014 Raw Materials. Vom Baumarkt ins Museum – Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen; Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst
- 2013 Die Bildhauer – Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
- 2012 46. Art Cologne, Cologne
- 2012 Frühwerke – Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
- 2011 New Sculptures – Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
- 2010 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen – Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
- 2009 Aus dem Stamm. Die Sinnlichkeit des Materials – Städtisches Museum Singen
- 2008 Sculptures and Works on Paper – Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
- 2007 The Freak Show – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
- 2006 Tony Cragg. Das Potential der Dinge – Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Lehmbruckmuseum, Duisburg
- 2006 Full House. Gesichter einer Sammlung – Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 2005 Landschaften. Landscapes – Kunstverein ArtHAUS e.V., Ahaus
- 2003 Signs of Life – Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
- 2002 Conversation? – The Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
- 2001 Ceramics – Rathausgalerie, Munich
- 2000 New Work – Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
- 1999 Zeitwenden. Rückblick und Ausblick – Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Kunstmuseum, Bonn
- 1998 Skulpturen im Öffentlichen Raum – Ulmer Museum, Ulm
- 1997 Zeichnungen – Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan
- 1995 Konversionen – Städtische Galerie Altes Theater, Ravensburg
- 1994 Zeichnungen – Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
- 1990 The Readymade Boomerang – 8th Biennale Sydney
- 1987 Anderer Leute Kunst – Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
- 1985 7000 Eichen – Kunsthalle Tübingen
- 1984 An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture – Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1982 Kunst wird Material – Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
- 1981 Through the Summer – Lisson Gallery, London
- 1979 Tony Cragg – Lisson Gallery, London
Awards
- 2017 Prize for visual artists 2017
- 2016 Knight Bachelor
- 2015 Honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy
- 2014 Honorary citizen of the city of Wuppertal
- 2013 Rheinischer Kulturpreis, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung
- 2012 Cologne-Fine-Art-Preis
- 2012 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
- 2009 Honorary doctor of the Royal College of Arts
- 2009 Goldene Schwebebahn, Wuppertal
- 2008 Ehrenring der Stadt Wuppertal
- 2007 Praemium Imperiale für Skulptur
- 2005 1. Preis für die Beste Skulptur, Beijing Biennale
- 2002 Piepenbrock Preis für Skulptur
- 2001 Shakespeare-Preis
- 1992 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- 1989 Von der Heydt-Kulturpreis, Wuppertal
- 1988 Turner Prize, London
Films
- Wie man einen Apfel schält. Der Bildhauer Tony Cragg, Horst Brandenburg, Germany 2003, ’40.
- The Eye. Tony Cragg, Great Britain 2001, ’26.
- Plastik aus Plastik. Der Bildhauer Tony Cragg, Germany 1988, ’30.
Literature
- Anthony Cragg. Sculpture 2001-2017, Cragg Foundation, Cologne 2019.
- Anthony Cragg. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Franz Marc Museumsgesellschaft durch Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Munich 2019.
- Anthony Cragg. Works on paper, André Buchmann, Cologne 2017.
- Anthony Cragg - parts of the world, Gerhard Finckh, Cologne 2016.
- Tony Cragg. Matrix, exhibition catalogue, Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Nuremberg 2012.
- Tony Cragg. Figure Out Figure In, exhibition catalogue, Musée National du Louvre, Paris 2011.
- Anthony Cragg. Dinge im Kopf, exhibition catalogue, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst Duisburg, Cologne 2011.
- Tony Cragg. Second Nature, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Cologne 2009.
- Tony Cragg. In and Out of Material, exhibition catalogue, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Cologne 2006.
- Tony Cragg. Signs of Life, exhibition catalogue, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 2003.
- Tony Cragg. Plastiken und Zeichnungen der 90er Jahre, exhibition catalogue, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 1999.
- Tony Cragg. Eine Werkauswahl, Armin Wildermuth, Stuttgart 1990.
Collections
Germany
- Berlin – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
- Duisburg – Lehmbruck Museum
- Karlsruhe – ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst
- Leipzig – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
- Wuppertal – Von der Heydt-Museum
England
- London – Tate Modern
Netherlands
- Amsterdam – Stedelijk Museum
Austria
- Klosterneuburg – Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart
USA
- Chicago – Museum of Contemporary Art
- Los Angeles – Museum of Contemporary Art
