The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations and The German Embassy present:
Professor Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg
'The Sculpture in my Life'
Thursday 26 January 2017, 6.30pm
The Peston Lecture Theatre,
The Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus
Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg is one of the most distinguished sculptors of our time. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (2002), Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art, London (2009), Professor at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (2001-2006), and thereafter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2006), which he led a Principal until 2013. Since 2010, Cragg has been appointed Honorary Fellow of University of the Arts London (2012); awarded Artist’s Medal of Honor of the Hermitage, Russia (2012) as well as the 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012). As an artist and public intellectual, Sir Anthony Cragg embodies the essence of Anglo-German Cultural relations in an international context.
Sir Anthony Cragg will be introduced by Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
This event is connected with the launch of Vol IX of the ANGERMION, the Centre's yearbook published by de Gruyter (Berlin/New York).
To register for this event, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/angermion-lecture-2017-tickets-30167711437
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/
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