Editing Documenta 1

{{short description|Art exhibition in Kassel, Germany}}
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The first [[Documenta]] took place between 15 July and 18 September 1955 in [[Kassel]], West Germany. The artistic director was [[Arnold Bode]].<ref>Ausstellungskatalog, documenta, kunst des XX. jahrhunderts, München 1955, auch als Nachdruck bei Prestel, München 1995.</ref>  It was considered the largest and most extensive exhibition of modern art in [[West Germany]] since the end of the [[Second World War]].

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== Participants ==
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''A'''
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| width="20%"|[[Josef Albers]] ||width="20%"| [[Kenneth Armitage]] ||width="20%"| [[Jean Arp]] ||width="20%"| [[René Auberjonois (painter)|René Victor Auberjonois]] || width="20%"|
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''B'''
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| [[Giacomo Balla]] ||[[Willi Baumeister]] || [[Max Beckmann]] || [[Hermann Blumenthal]] || [[Reg Butler]]
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| [[Eduard Bargheer]] ||[[Mirko Basaldella]] || [[Max Bill]] || [[Umberto Boccioni]] ||
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| [[Ernst Barlach]] || [[Jean Bazaine]] || [[Renato Birolli]] || [[Camille Bombois]]||
|- style="background:#ededed;"
| [[Afro Basaldella]] || [[André Beaudin]]|| [[Roger Bissière]] || [[Georges Braque]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''C'''
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| [[Alexander Calder]] ||[[Alexander Camaro]] ||[[Heinrich Campendonk]] ||[[Marc Chagall]] || [[Roberto Crippa]]
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| [[Massimo Campigli]] || [[Giuseppe Capogrossi]] ||[[Carlo Carrà]] || [[Giorgio de Chirico]] ||
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| [[Felice Casorati]] ||[[Bruno Cassinari]] ||[[Lynn Chadwick]] || [[Antonio Corpora]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''D'''
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| [[Robert Delaunay]] ||[[Charles Despiau]] ||[[Theo van Doesburg]] || [[Raoul Dufy]] ||
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| [[André Derain]] ||[[Otto Dix]] ||[[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]] || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''E'''
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| [[Max Ernst]] || || || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''F'''
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| [[Joseph Fassbender]] ||[[Lyonel Feininger]] ||[[Ernesto de Fiori]] || [[Xaver Fuhr]]||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''G'''
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| [[Naum Gabo]] ||[[Fritz Glarner]] ||[[HAP Grieshaber]] || ||
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| [[Werner Gilles]] ||[[Julio González (sculptor)|Julio González]] ||[[Juan Gris]] || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''H'''
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| [[Hans Hartung]] ||[[Erich Heckel]] ||[[Werner Heldt]] || [[Auguste Herbin]] ||
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| [[Karl Hartung]]||[[Bernhard Heiliger]] ||[[Barbara Hepworth]] || [[Karl Hofer]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''J'''
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| [[Alexej von Jawlensky]] || || || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''K'''
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| [[Wassily Kandinsky]] ||[[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]] ||[[Oskar Kokoschka]] || ||
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| [[Ludwig Kasper]] ||[[Paul Klee]] ||[[František Kupka]] || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''L'''
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| [[Berto Lardera]] ||[[Henri Laurens]] ||[[Fernand Léger]] ||[[Kurt Lehmann]]|| [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]]
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''M'''
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| [[August Macke]] ||[[Marino Marini (sculptor)|Marino Marini]] ||[[Otto Meyer-Amden]] ||[[Giorgio Morandi]] || [[Gabriele Münter]]
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| [[Alberto Magnelli]] || [[André Masson]] || [[Joan Miró]] ||[[Mattia Moreni]] || [[Zoran Mušič]]
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| [[Aristide Maillol]] || [[Ewald Mataré]]|| [[Paula Modersohn-Becker]] || [[Ennio Morlotti]] ||
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| [[Alfred Manessier]] || [[Henri Matisse]] || [[Amedeo Modigliani]] || [[Richard Mortensen]] ||
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| [[Franz Marc]]|| [[Georg Meistermann]] || [[Piet Mondrian]] || [[Georg Muche]] ||
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| [[Gerhard Marcks]] ||[[Hans Mettel]]|| [[Henry Moore]] || [[Otto Mueller]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''N'''
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| [[Ernst Wilhelm Nay]]|| [[Rolf Nesch]]|| [[Ben Nicholson]] || [[Emil Nolde]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''P'''
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| [[Max Pechstein]] ||[[Pablo Picasso]] ||[[Filippo De Pisis]] || ||
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| [[Antoine Pevsner]] ||[[Édouard Pignon]]||[[Hans Purrmann]] || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''R'''
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| [[Otto Ritschl]] ||[[Kurt Roesch]] ||[[Georges Rouault]] || ||
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| [[Emy Roeder]] ||[[Christian Rohlfs]] ||[[Henri Rousseau]] || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''S'''
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| [[Giuseppe Santomaso]] ||[[Gérard Ernest Schneider]] ||[[William Scott (artist)|William Scott]] || [[Mario Sironi]] ||
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| [[Edwin Scharff]] ||[[Wols]]||[[Séraphine Louis|Séraphine (Louis) de Senlis]] || [[Pierre Soulages]] ||
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| [[Oskar Schlemmer]] ||[[Kurt Schwitters]] ||[[Gino Severini]] || [[Toni Stadler junior|Toni Stadler]]||
|- style="background:#ededed;"
| [[Karl Schmidt-Rottluff]] ||[[Scipione (Gino Bonichi)]] ||[[Gustave Singier]] || [[Graham Sutherland]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''T'''
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| [[Sophie Taeuber-Arp]]|| [[Pierre Tal-Coat]]|| [[Hann Trier]] || [[Heinz Trökes]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''U'''
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| [[Hans Uhlmann]] || || || ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''V'''
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| [[Victor Vasarely]] ||[[Alberto Viani]]||[[Jacques Villon]] || [[Maurice de Vlaminck]] ||
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| [[Emilio Vedova]] ||[[Maria Helena Vieira da Silva|Marie Héléne Vieira da Silva]] ||[[Louis Vivin]] || [[Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart]] ||
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| colspan="5" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000"|'''W'''
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| [[Theodor Werner]]|| [[Walter Kurt Wiemken]] || [[Hans Wimmer]] || [[Fritz Winter]] || [[Gustav H. Wolff]]
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[[Category:1955 in art]]