Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films.
In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.
Ingrid Wiener (1942–2026)
Viennese Actionist
Part of the Viennese Actionism movement in the 1960s and '70s, the Austrian artist integrated photography, painting, collage, and text into tapestries that were alternatively documentary, abstract, and surreal. She also collaborated with artists like Valie Export and Dieter Roth, and expanded into media like film.
Scott Froschauer (1968–2026)
Sculptor, painter, and maker of public art
He made large-scale art installations for multiple editions of Burning Man in the 2010s, which were shown in an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2018. His series The Word on the Street consists of traffic signs modified to induce optimism or positivity.
Ian Berry (1934–2026)
British photojournalist
As a photojournalist for the Daily Mail and Drum magazine, he captured Apartheid in South Africa, notably the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, in which police killed 69 people and wounded 178 others at a peaceful protest. A part of Magnum Photos, he won numerous awards from British Press Pictures, the Art Directors Club of New York, the National Press Photographers Association, and many more organizations.
Bob Masse (1945–2026)
Canadian poster artist
Beginning in the 1960s, he designed concert posters for performers such as Neil Young, Tori Amos, and the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as the posters for films such as Back to the Future Part III and TV series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Umberto Pizzi (1937–2026)
Italian photojournalist
The Italian photojournalist documented and critiqued actors, politicians, television presenters, and more during the so-called "Dolce Vita era" of Italy in the 1950s and '60s, and beyond. He published his photographs in magazines like Time and People, eventually producing an archive of around two million images.
Phil Ponder (1933–2026)
Watercolorist who documented a changing Nashville
A celebrated watercolorist in Nashville, he painted more than 700 architectural portraits of churches, houses, public spaces, landmarks, and more. He was an exacting painter known for his verisimilitude, and prints of his work are ubiquitous across the city.
