Anthony Caro

Sir Anthony Caro CBE, OM ( born March 8, 1924 in New Malden, Surrey; † October 23, 2013 in London) was a British sculptor of the modern age that has shaped the modern abstract sculpture and substantially affected. His works were mostly out of recycled materials work, in particular iron and steel, mostly from scrap.

Life and work

Caro received in 1944 his diploma of Engineering and graduated in 1946 at the " Polytechnic Institute " in London. The study of sculpture he completed from 1947 to 1952 at the city's Royal Academy of Arts. From 1951 to 1953 he worked as an employee of the sculptor Henry Moore. In the years 1953 to 1967 he was a teacher at the St. Martin's School of Art

His works were beginners, figuratively, mainly because the Royal Academy was one of the last art schools, the modern, abstract art movements still completely closed up after the Second World War. A turnaround in his career, during his first, from 1959 to 1960 permanent stay in the United States, the meeting with the American sculptor David Smith. Anthony Caro took part in documenta III (1964 ) and the Documenta 4 (1968 ) in Kassel.

Anthony Caro received some of the highest awards of the United Kingdom in the course of his career. After he had been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE), Queen Elizabeth II struck him in 1987 as a Knight Bachelor knighted and appointed him in May 2000, also a member of the prestigious Order of Merit.

In 1992, Caro the Praemium Imperiale in the category of sculpture.

Anthony Caro and David Smith

It was the American critic Clement Greenberg, who Caro received in the United States and incited to orient his artistic ends differently from the traditionally working sculptor who he was, to the avant-garde artist who he was. It was David Smith, in turn inspired by Pablo Picasso and Julio González who Caro first acquaintance with the so-called collage technique had made: sculpt the design method of welding. His works were of course heavily influenced by Smith, but Caro was careful not to imitate Smith, and brought his own personal style to develop.