Christian Boltanski - GYMNASIUM CHASES

Christian Boltanski (born 1944 in Paris) is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. “What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. “ Christian Boltanski GYMNASIUM CHASES, a portfolio of photogravures by French artist Christian Boltanski, is based on a photograph of the 1931 graduating class of the Gymnasium Chases, a Jewish High School in Vienna. Although Boltanski has employed many of these portraits in altar-li