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Tomas Schmit

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WA-00033956

Mixed Media

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WikidataQ830724 ULAN500072378

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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BERLINART 1961�1987

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Bookworks

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/36955
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (20)

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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (Die Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation) from En Bloc

1971 · Wood and taut wire with ink additions

overall: 7 7/8 x 14 3/16 x 13/16" (20 x 36 x 2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Das Gute Duenken

1970 · Artist's book

page: 5 7/8 x 5 1/2" (15 x 13.9 cm); overall: 1 x 5 1/2 x 5 7/8" (2.5 x 13.9 x 15 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Tischtheater

1968 · Cardboard box with letterpress, containing five offsets and five offsets on board

overall: 1 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 6 3/8" (2.8 x 32 x 16.2 cm); sheet (each board, folded): 12 7/16 x 6 1/8" (31.6 x 15.5 cm); sheet (each board, unfolded): 12 7/16 x 12 3/8" (31.6 x 31.4 cm); sheet (instructions, folded): 11 11/16 x 5 3/4" (29.7 x 14.6 cm); sheet (each instruction, unfolded): 11 5/8 x 15 9/16" (29.5 x 39.5 cm)

page: 7 5/8 x 5 13/16" (19.3 x 14.7 cm); overall: 9/16 x 7 5/8 x 6" (1.5 x 19.3 x 15.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Actions/Agit Pop/Dé-Coll/Age Happening/Events/Anti Art/L'Autrisme/Art Total/Refluxus

1964 · Felt-tip pen on paper

sheet: 39 1/4 x 29 7/16" (99.7 x 74.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Typewriter Poem

1963 · Ink on paper

sheet: 8 3/16 x 11 11/16" (20.8 x 29.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Poem V

1963 · Glass jar with typewriting on paper, containing torn paper, crumbled matchbooks, cigarette butts, and ashes

overall: 5 3/16 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8" (13.2 x 8.6 x 8.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Zyklus for Water-Pails (1962), performed during Internationaal Programma Nieuwste Muziek, Nieuwste Theater, Nieuwste Literatuur, De Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam, December 18, 1963

1963 · Gelatin silver print

image and sheet: 6 15/16 x 9 3/8" (17.6 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 1/2 × 8 3/8 × 1 13/16" (19.1 × 21.2 × 4.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 9/16 × 8 7/16 × 2 3/8" (19.2 × 21.5 × 6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21.4 × 5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset lithograph

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Tomas Schmit's, Shaving a Book, and Wolf Vostell's, St. Tropez, performed during Nam June Paik's Moving Theatre No. 1, Paralelle Aufführungen Neuster Musik, on the street outside Kunsthandel Monet, Amsterdam, October 5, 1962

1962 · Gelatin silver print

sheet: 10 × 7 15/16" (25.4 × 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 2 3/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/16" (19.2 x 21 x 3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Scores from Fluxus 1

1962 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 2 3/16" (19.1 × 21.4 × 5.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sanitas 1, Sanitas 2, Sanitas 10, Sanitas 13, Sanitas 35, Sanitas 79, Sanitas 92, Sanitas 137, Sanitas 141, Sanitas 143, Sanitas 147, Sanitas 151, and Sanitas 156 from Sanitas - 200 theater pieces

1962 · Typewriting on paper with pencil additions

sheet: 10 7/8 x 7" (27.7 x 17.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Three Piano Pieces for George Maciunas (Drei Klavierstuecke fuer George Maciunas)

1962 · Typewriting on paper with pencil additions

sheet: 10 7/8 x 7" (27.7 x 17.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Zyklus for Water-Pails

1962 · Typewriting through carbon on paper

sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 3/16" (29.5 x 20.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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From Sanitas - 200 Sheet Theater from Fluxshop

103 copies of double-sided offset

sheet (each): 7 5/8 x 4 5/8" (19.4 x 11.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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20 published of 42 catalogued · 17 with image

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20 publishedof 42 catalogued17 img

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Museum of Modern Art

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In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition BERLINART 1961�1987

New York · 1987

Group Exhibition Bookworks

New York · 1977