II. documenta explained

II. documenta was the second edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 11 July and 1 October 1959 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Arnold Bode in collaboration with art historian Werner Haftmann.^[1]

Participants

A
			Afro (Afro Basaldella)
B
				Eugen Batz
				Gustav Kurt Beck
				Gaston Bertrand
				André Bloc
				Constantin Brâncuși
				Peter Brüning
C
				Carmelo Cappello
				Marc Chagall
				Antoni Clavé
				Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
			Modest Cuixart
D
				Robert Delaunay
				Piero Dorazio
		Bernard Dufour
E
			Merlyn Oliver Evans
F
				Luis Feito
				Helen Frankenthaler
Othon Friesz
G
				Jacques Germain
				Michael Goldberg
				Karl Otto Götz
				Philip Guston
H
				Simon Hantaï
				Rudolf Hausner
				Auguste Herbin
				Gerhard Hoehme
	Hans Hofmann
I
	Rolf Iseli
J
			Asger Jorn
K
				Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
				Max Kohler
			Rudolf Kügler
L
				Berto Lardera
				Le Corbusier
				Walter Linck
				Jean Lurçat
M
				Giacomo Manzù
				André Marfaing
				Ewald Mataré
				Matschinsky-Denninghoff
				Henri Michaux
				Joan Mitchell
				Ennio Morlotti
				Willi Müller-Hufschmid
	Zoran Mušič
N
				Barnett Newman
O
		Fayga Ostrower
P
				Antoine Pevsner
				Hans Platschek
				Piotr Potworowski
R
				Jean-Paul Riopelle
				Hans Rompel
		Georges Rouault
S
				Karl Schaper
				Bernard Schultze
				André Dunoyer de Segonzac
				Josef Šíma
				Pierre Soulages
				François Stahly
				Graham Sutherland
T
				Dorothea Tanning
				Bradley Walker Tomlin
				Ann Twardowicz
U
	Hans Uhlmann
V
				Alberto Viani
		Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
W
				Fritz Winter
				Bryan Wynter
Y
Taihô Yamazaki
Z
		Unica Zürn

Notes and References

1. Ausstellungskatalog: II. documenta ’59. Kunst nach 1945; Katalog: Band 1: Malerei; Band 2: Skulptur; Band 3: Druckgrafik; Textband. Kassel/Köln 1959