Heiner Friedrich
Heiner Friedrich (born April 14, 1938, in
Stettin) is an art dealer and collector of
minimal art and
conceptual art. Friedrich and his then wife
Philippa de Menil, together with Helen Winkler, established the
Dia Art Foundation in 1973. Friedrich has exhibited works by
Blinky Palermo,
Walter De Maria,
Donald Judd,
La Monte Young,
Andy Warhol,
Michael Heizer, and
Joseph Beuys, among others in his galleries in Germany, but became less interested in short term gallery installations and through Dia began to collect, and support major projects, such as Walter De Maria's ''
The Lightning Field'' (1977) in
New Mexico and purchasing a former military base in
Marfa, Texas to enable Donald Judd to create a permanent space for the installation of his large minimal sculptures.
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