丹·弗莱文(Dan Flavin)
艺术家: 丹·弗莱文
生于: 1933年4月01日；牙买加，昆斯，纽约，美国
卒于: 1996年11月29日；里弗黑德，纽约，美国
国籍: 美国
流派: 极简主义
领域: 绘画,绘画,安装
丹·弗莱文是美国极简主义艺术家，以利用市售的荧光灯具创作雕塑品和装置而闻名。
1956年，弗莱文短暂地就读于汉斯·霍夫曼美术学院，并在阿尔伯特·厄本学院学习艺术。后来，他在社会研究新学院学习了短暂的艺术史，然后转到哥伦比亚大学，在那里他学习绘画和绘画。
从1959年起，Flavin很快在古根海姆博物馆被聘为邮局职员，后来在古根海姆博物馆担任警卫和电梯操作员。现代艺术博物馆，在那里他遇见了Sol LeWitt、Lucy Lippard和罗伯特·雷曼。两年后，他娶了他的第一任妻子Sonja.dija，她是纽约大学艺术史专业的学生，也是现代艺术博物馆的办公室助理经理。
Flavin在1992年古根海姆博物馆举行的一个仪式上娶了他的第二任妻子，艺术家Tracy Harris。韦尔黑德，纽约糖尿病并发症。他的财产是由David Zwirner，纽约代表。
Artist :Dan Flavin
Additional Name :Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr.
Born : Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States
Died : Riverhead, New York, United States
Nationality :American
Art Movement :Minimalism
Field :painting,drawing,installation
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
In 1956, Flavin briefly attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and studied art under Albert Urban. He later studied art history for a short time at the New School for Social Research, then moved on to Columbia University, where he studied painting and drawing.
From 1959, Flavin was shortly employed as a mailroom clerk at the Guggenheim Museum and later as guard and elevator operator at the Museum of Modern Art, where he met Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, and Robert Ryman. Two years later, he married his first wife Sonja Severdija, an art history student at New York University and assistant office manager at the Museum of Modern Art.
Flavin married his second wife, the artist Tracy Harris, in a ceremony at the Guggenheim Museum, in 1992.
Flavin died in Riverhead, New York of complications from diabetes. His estate is represented by David Zwirner, New York.
