What is Gustav Metzger?
[[File:Gustav Metzger, Manchester International Festival 2009 (3693540702).jpg|thumb|Metzger in 2009]] '''Gustav Metzger''' (10 April 1926 &ndash; 1 March 2017) was a [[British people|British]] artist and [[political activist]]. He was best known for developing the concept of [[auto-destructive art]] (ADA) and the [[Art Strike]]. He was also one of the starters of the Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966. Metzger was born in [[Nuremberg]], [[Germany]]. He was the son of [[Poles|Polish]] [[Jew]]s. He moved to the [[United Kingdom]] in 1939 as a [[refugee]]. Metzger died on 1 March 2017 in [[London]], at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/02/auto-destructive-art-pioneer-gustav-metzger-dies-aged-90|title=Gustav Metzger, pioneer of auto-destructive art, dies aged 90|last=Brown|first=Mark|access-date=2 March 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 March 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Metzger, Gustav}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:British activists]] [[Category:British Jews]] [[Category:German Jews]] [[Category:German political activists]] [[Category:Jewish activists]] [[Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:People from Nuremberg]] [[Category:Refugees from Nazism]] {{Bio-stub}}