What of the artist himself? His dates are 1924-2003; born in Krefeld, he studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf along with Gunter Grass (starting in 1945). The colour white is essential to his work. A trip to Paris in 1951 was decisive for his art - but he worked in isolation as he spoke no French. It wasn't till the 1970s that he found a place in the French art scene. He has been called "atypical and original in his epoch". "Throughout his five-decade-long career, Zangs embraced intuitive spontaneity and placed value on the creative act rather than the final product. Working at a small-scale, using cardboard, paper, fabric, and white paint, Zangs’s monochromatic work has an off-hand aesthetic that still seems challenging today" says this brief biography.
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