VIENNA, Austria - Adolf Frohner, a leading Austrian abstract painter and graphic artist who helped found Vienna's "Actionism" movement in the 1960s and gained an international following, died Wednesday. He was 72.
Frohner, who once walled himself in behind brick and mortar for three days to explore what it meant to be an isolated observer, died suddenly of natural causes, public broadcaster ORF said. Details of his illness were not disclosed.
His death came just five days after he ceremoniously broke ground on the Frohner Forum, a new museum being built in his name in the Danube River town of Krems, 40 miles west of Vienna, ORF said. It said the gallery would open later …
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