Dieter Roth [SEP] cause of death
new work. He represented Switzerland at the 1982 Venice Biennale, and received a number of awards and prizes, including the Genevan Prix Caran d’Ache Beaux Arts, a prestigious Swiss prize, in 1991.
Dieter Roth died on 5 June 1998, in his studio in Basel, of a heart attack, and was buried at Arnarstapi on Snaefellsnes, Iceland.
Dieter Roth Academy.
The Dieter Roth Academy was founded in May 2000 by fifteen close friends and colleagues of Dieter Roth. It now includes many times that number
international art trends while working alongside Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, and Markus Raetz.
In 1956, Oppenheim designed the costumes and masks for Daniel Spoerri’s production of Picasso’s play "Le Désir attrapé par la queue" in Berne. She and artist Lilly Keller were cast as the curtains. Three years later, in 1959, she organized a "Spring Banquet (Le Festin)" in Bern for a few friends at which food was served on the body of a naked woman. The exhibit cause controversy, with