# II. documenta

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.

## Participants

A :
| René Acht | Henri-Georges Adam | Hans Aeschbacher | Afro (Afro Basaldella) | Gerhard Altenbourg |
| Karel Appel | Mordecai Ardon | Kenneth Armitage | Hans Arp | |
| B |||||
| Francis Bacon | Vojin Bakić | Eduard Bargheer | Heinz Battke | Eugen Batz |
| Willi Baumeister | Jean Bazaine | William Baziotes | André Beaudin | Gustav Kurt Beck |
| Max Beckmann | Hans Bellmer | Anna-Eva Bergman | Hubert Berke | Gaston Bertrand |
| Max Bill | Renato Birolli | Julius Bissier | Roger Bissière | André Bloc |
| Norman Bluhm | Umberto Boccioni | Walter Bodmer | Anne Bonnet | Constantin Brâncuși |
| Georges Braque | Theo Braun | Victor Brauner | James Brooks | Peter Brüning |
| Carl Buchheister | Alberto Burri | Jan Burssens | Reg Butler | |
| C |||||
| Alexander Calder | Alexander Camaro | Massimo Campigli | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Carmelo Cappello |
| Bruno Cassinari | Sergio de Castro | César Baldaccini | Lynn Chadwick | Marc Chagall |
| Bernard Childs | Eduardo Chillida | Giorgio de Chirico | Emil Cimiotti | Antoni Clavé |
| Henry Cliffe | Otto Coester | Pietro Consagra | Constant Nieuwenhuys | Corneille Guillaume Beverloo |
| Antonio Corpora | Pierre Courtin | Harold B. Cousins | Modest Cuixart |
| D |||||
| Karl Fred Dahmen | Alan Davie | Jean Degottex | Jacques Charles Delahaye | Robert Delaunay |
| Paul Delvaux | André Derain | Jean Deyrolle | Eugène Dodeigne | Piero Dorazio |
| Gianni Dova | Jean Dubuffet | Bernard Dufour |
| E |||||
| Theo Eble | Max Ernst | Maurice Estève | Merlyn Oliver Evans |
| F |||||
| Joseph Fassbender | Jean Fautrier | Pericle Fazzini | Franz Fedier | Luis Feito |
| Herbert Ferber | Lucio Fontana | Nino Franchina | Sam Francis | Helen Frankenthaler |
| Othon Friesz |
| G |||||
| Naum Gabo | Winfried Gaul | Rupprecht Geiger | Claude Georges | Jacques Germain |
| Alberto Giacometti | Émile Gilioli | Werner Gilles | Roger-Edgar Gillet | Michael Goldberg |
| Bruno Goller | Julio González | Arshile Gorky | Adolph Gottlieb | Karl Otto Götz |
| Otto Greis | HAP Grieshaber | Juan Gris | Marcel Gromaire | Philip Guston |
| H |||||
| Terry Haass | Roel D’Haese | Étienne Hajdú | Otto Herbert Hajek | Simon Hantaï |
| Fritz Harnest | Grace Hartigan | Hans Hartung | Karl Hartung | Rudolf Hausner |
| Stanley William Hayter | Bernhard Heiliger | Werner Heldt | Barbara Hepworth | Auguste Herbin |
| Peter Herkenrath | Ernst Hermanns | Anton Heyboer | Roger Hilton | Gerhard Hoehme |
| Rudolf Hoflehner | Hans Hofmann |
| I |||||
| Yūichi Inoue | Rolf Iseli |
| J |||||
| Robert Jacobsen | Franz M. Jansen | Guido Jendritzko | Asger Jorn |
| K |||||
| Wassily Kandinsky | Tadeusz Kantor | Zoltán Kemény | Eugène de Kermadec | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| Heinrich Kirchner | Paul Klee | Franz Kline | Fritz Koenig | Max Kohler |
| Oskar Kokoschka | Willem de Kooning | Norbert Kricke | Rudolf Kügler |
| L |||||
| Wifredo Lam | Octave Landuyt | André Lanskoy | Peter Lanyon | Berto Lardera |
| Ibram Lassaw | Ger Lataster | Henri Laurens | Jan Lebenstein | Le Corbusier |
| Fernand Léger | Heinz Leinfellner | Jean Le Moal | Osvaldo Licini | Walter Linck |
| Jacques Lipchitz | Morice Lipsi | Seymour Lipton | Lucebert | Jean Lurçat |
| M |||||
| Alberto Magnelli | René Magritte | Kazimir Malevich | Alfred Manessier | Giacomo Manzù |
| Franz Marc | Conrad Marca-Relli | Gerhard Marcks | Adam Marczyński | André Marfaing |
| Marino Marini | Albert Marquet | André Masson | Umberto Mastroianni | Ewald Mataré |
| Georges Mathieu | Henri Matisse | Roberto Matta | Bernard Meadows | Matschinsky-Denninghoff |
| Georg Meistermann | Marc Mendelson | Ludwig Merwart | Hans Mettel | Henri Michaux |
| Leone Minassian | Luciano Minguzzi | Mirko Basaldella | Joan Miró | Joan Mitchell |
| Piet Mondrian | Henry Moore | Giorgio Morandi | Mattia Moreni | Ennio Morlotti |
| Richard Mortensen | Robert Motherwell | Max von Mühlenen | Robert Müller | Willi Müller-Hufschmid |
| Edo Murtić | Zoran Mušič |
| N |||||
| Ernst Wilhelm Nay | Renee Nele | Endre Nemes | Rolf Nesch | Barnett Newman |
| Ben Nicholson | Isamu Noguchi | Sidney Nolan | Emil Nolde | |
| O |||||
| Richard Oelze | Christian d’Orgeix | Fayga Ostrower |
| P |||||
| Eduardo Paolozzi | Victor Pasmore | Alicia Penalba | Achille Perilli | Antoine Pevsner |
| Jean Piaubert | Pablo Picasso | Édouard Pignon | Arthur Luiz Piza | Hans Platschek |
| Serge Poliakoff | Jackson Pollock | Arnaldo Pomodoro | Giò Pomodoro | Piotr Potworowski |
| Richard Pousette-Dart | Mario Prassinos | | | |
| R |||||
| Robert Rauschenberg | Paul Rebeyrolle | Germaine Richier | Fritz Riedl | Jean-Paul Riopelle |
| Günter Ferdinand Ris | Otto Ritschl | Kurt Roesch | Gerburg Rohde | Hans Rompel |
| Theodore Roszak | Mark Rothko | Georges Rouault |
| S |||||
| Rolf Sackenheim | Giuseppe Santomaso | Antonio Saura | Emilio Scanavino | Karl Schaper |
| Edwin Scharff | Oskar Schlemmer | Gérard Ernest Schneider | Nicolas Schöffer | Bernard Schultze |
| Emil Schumacher | Kurt Schwitters | Toti Scialoja | William Scott | André Dunoyer de Segonzac |
| Gustav Seitz | Jaroslaw Serpan | Michel Seuphor | Ben Shahn | Josef Šíma |
| Gustave Singier | Mario Sironi | David Smith | K.R.H. Sonderborg | Pierre Soulages |
| Luigi Spazzapan | Ferdinand Springer | Toni Stadler | Nicolas de Staël | François Stahly |
| Theodoros Stamos | Clyfford Still | Gabrijel Stupica | Kumi Sugai | Graham Sutherland |
| Arpad Szenès | | | | |
| T |||||
| Shinkichi Tajiri | Pierre Tal-Coat | Rufino Tamayo | Yves Tanguy | Dorothea Tanning |
| Antoni Tàpies | Yūkei Tejima | Fred Thieler | Mark Tobey | Bradley Walker Tomlin |
| Hann Trier | Heinz Trökes | Drago Tršar | Giulio Turcato | Ann Twardowicz |
| Jack Tworkov | | | | |
| U |||||
| Raoul Ubac | Hans Uhlmann |
| V |||||
| Louis Van Lint | Victor Vasarely | Emilio Vedova | Geer van Velde | Alberto Viani |
| Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | Jacques Villon | Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart |
| W |||||
| Gerhard Wendland | Hans Werdehausen | Theodor Werner | Gerhard Wind | Fritz Winter |
| Karl Anton Wolf | Wols | Fritz Wotruba | Woty Werner | Bryan Wynter |
| Y |||||
| Taihô Yamazaki |
| Z |||||
| Ossip Zadkine | Mac Zimmermann | Unica Zürn |