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André Thomkins

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André Thomkins (Lucerne, 11 August 1930 - Berlin, 8 November 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He married Eva Schnell [de] in 1952.[1] From 1952, he lived in Germany[citation needed] and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973.[1]

Thomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes.[citation needed] He died in 1985.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Tapan Bhattacharya: André Thomkins in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 19 December 2024.