André Thomkins

Visual Artist

1930 – 1985

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Who was André Thomkins?

André Thomkins is a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973.

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. He died in 1985.

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Born
Aug 11, 1930
Lucerne
Also known as
  • Andre Thomkins
Died
Nov 8, 1985
West Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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