Artist Christo Wrapping The Reichstag. Yesterday’s statement from christo’s office concluded: The artist known as christo, who made his name transforming landmarks such as germany's reichstag by covering them with reams of cloth, died on sunday aged 84, his official facebook page announced.
Christo first sketched out the idea for wrapping a building in 1961, and envisioned early on that a public government building with a strong link to the general populace would be the preferred site. Years later, he identified the reichstag as the perfect building to wrap, because it represented the possibility of a renewed relationship between. Yesterday’s statement from christo’s office concluded:
In the two weeks after, 5 million visitors flooded the site in berlin, setting a world record for visits to a.
Christo, audacious artist who wrapped buildings, parks and landscapes in cloth, dies at 84. Christo's death was announced by his. The artist christo, known for wrapping monuments such as the reichstag in cloth, has died aged 84. The reichstag remained wrapped for 14 days and all materials were recycled.1,076,390 square feet (100,000 square meters) of