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George Economou was born in Athens, in 1953. He graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and began his career in shipping, then expanded to offshore drilling and real estate. His collecting activity began in the 1990s with a focus on early twentieth-century European art and has grown to include post-war and contemporary art. Central movements of the early twentieth century such as German Expressionism and New Objectivity are collected in depth. Unique to the collection is the complete graphic oeuvre of Otto Dix and Otto Mueller. Works by artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Baselitz, Andreas Gursky and Neo Rauch continue the German dialogue into the contemporary sphere alongside works by international artists such as Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Cady Noland and Jenny Saville. In 2012 he opened an exhibition space for the collection in the suburbs of Athens, where two to three annual exhibitions are presented.
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