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1930:
Born James Warhola in Pittsburgh, PA of Czechoslovakian
immigrant parents.
1954: Left school with a high school diploma.
1945-49: Studied pictorial design and art history, sociology
and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology,
Pittsburgh. Met figurative painter Philip Pearlstein and
moved to New York with him in 1949.
1950-52: Worked for "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar", did
window displays for Bonwit Teller and his first advertisements
for I. Miller shoe company.
1952: First one-man exhibition at the Hugo Gallery, New
York. He designed stage sets, dyed his hair straw-blond
and moved into a house in Lexington Avenue with his mother
and several cats.
1954: Group exhibition, Loft Gallery, New York.
1956: Solo exhibition of his drawings for Boy Book
at the Bodley Gallery, and his Golden Shoes were
exhibited in Madison Avenue. Travelled in Europe and Asia.
1960: First pictures based on comic-strips and company
trade names.
1962: Silkscreen prints on canvas of dollar notes, Campbell's
Soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, etc. Included in exhibition
The New Realists at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New
York, and started his series of disaster pictures: Car
Crash, Plane Crash, Suicide, Tunafish Disaster and
Electric Chair.
1962-1964: Produced over 2,000 pictures in his "Factory".
1963: Made the movies Sleep (6 hours long) and
Empire (8 hours long).
1964: Flower Pictures were exhibited at the Galerie
Sonnabend, Paris. He was also forced for political reasons
to paint over his Thirteen Most Wanted Men which
he had attached to the wall of the New York State Pavilion
for the World's Fair in New York. He made his first sculptures
with affixed silkscreen prints of company cartoons.
1965: Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia.
1967: Produced the first record of the rock band "The
Velvet Underground" and between 1966 and 1968 made several
films with them. His Cow Wallpaper and Silver
Pillows were shown at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
1968: Exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. In
July of the same year he was shot down, and dangerously
wounded, by Valerie Solanis, the only member of S.C.U.M.
(The Society for Cutting Up Men). Brought out his novel
"a", which consisted of telephone calls recorded in his
Factory. Made the first movie for the cinema, Flash,
with Paul Morissey, followed by Trash in 1970.
1969: The first number of his magazine "Interview" appeared.
1969-1972: Commissioned to do portraits.
1972: Exhibited at the the Kunstmuseum, Basel.
1975: First edition of his book THE Philosophy of Andy
Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) was published.
1976: The Württembergischer Kunstverein exhibited The
Graphic Work - 1942-1975, also shown in Düsseldorf,
Bremen, Munich, Berlin and Vienna.
1978: Exhibited at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, and at the Louisiana
Museum, Humblebaek.
1979: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, showed
The Portraits of the 70s.
1980: Became production manager of the cable TV station
"Andy Warhol's TV". In the same year Joseph Beuys by
Andy Warhol was shown at the Centre d'Art Contemporain,
Geneva, he exhibited Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth
Century at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,
and at the Jewish Museum, New York. POPism, The Warhol
'60s was published.
1981: Exhibition Andy Warhol - Paintings 1961-1968
at the Kestner-Gesselschaft, Hanover, and at the Städtische
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. The Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts,
Vienna, exhibited Warhol '80.
1982-1986: Created Disaster series. In 1982 he
exhibited a series of oxidations and pictures of Nazi
architecture at the documenta "4" exhibition, Kassel.
He exhibited Guns, Knives, Crosses at the Leo Castelli
Gallery, and at the Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid.
He exhibited Warhol's Animals: Species at Risk
at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and
at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.
1986: Portraits of Lenin and self-portraits.
1987: Died as a result of an operation.
1988: Hamburger Kunstverein showed Death Pictures.
1989: Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his largest
retrospective exhibition. Estate was auctioned at Sotheby's.
His will provided for an endowment fund for the patronage
of art, the Warhol Foundation.
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