Obituaries - of notable art world figures - Obituary

Art in America, August, 1994

Christian Geelhaar, 54, Picasso scholar and director of the Basel Kunstmuseum who organized shows of Cezanne, Johns and Monet; he wrote Paul Klee: Life and Work.

Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 80, Pulitzer Publishing Co. chief and modern-art collector who was a leading patron of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum.

Thomas Ammann, 43, Swiss collector and art dealer who showed Matisse and Picasso as well as contemporary artists such as Bleckner, Fischl and Warhol. He opened his gallery in 1976.

Raoul Hague, 88, Constantinople-born American sculptor, based in Woodstock, N.Y., whose monolithic abstractions are carved directly from tree trunks.

Enrique Castro-Cid, 54, Santiago-born artist known for motorized constructions and compressed-air kinetic sculptures as well as computer-generated figurative paintings.

Wolfgang Max Faust, 49, German critic and art historian who was an advocate of Neo-Expressionist painting and a columnist on art and AIDS for the Hamburg-based magazine art.

Hannah Wilke, 52, New York artist whose work addresses issues of sexual politics and mortality, often with reference to her own body. She taught at the School of Visual Arts.

Charles Egan, 81, New York gallery owner who helped launch Abstract Expressionism. He gave de Kooning his first show in 1948 and exhibited most of the New York School artists.

Peter Agostini, 80, figurative sculptor and teacher whose plaster casts of everyday objects like beer cans, eggs and pillows had affinities with Pop art and Assemblage.

Richard Diebenkorn, 70, West Coast painter of elegant color abstractions who had retrospectives at the Albright-Knox (1976) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1992).

Norton Simon, 86, California industrialist and collector who specialized in old masters and Asian art; he founded the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena in 1975.

Charles Moore, 68, postmodernist architect who designed the Hood Museum at Dartmouth and the Williams College Art Museum. He taught at Yale and Berkeley.

Dominique Bozo, 58, president of the Pompidou Center and founding director of the Picasso Museum in Paris, who served as head of the Musee National d'Art Moderne (1981-86).

John Caldwell, 51, curator of contemporary art at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum (1983-89) and of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1989-93).

Tibor de Nagy, 85, New York art dealer known for his eclectic tastes and support for artists ranging from Red Grooms and Helen Frankenthaler to Carl Andre and Jonathan Lasker.