Headfirst into Eternity

Kopfüber in die Ewigkeit

Conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs, who died on April 29 at age 86, has been buried in a self-designed grave in the Künstlernekropole (artists' necropolis) near Kassel, Germany. His tomb features a life-size bronze cast of his body buried head-first in the earth, with only the soles of his feet visible above ground. Ulrichs, a pioneer of West German postwar conceptual art known for provocative works like tattooing himself and locking himself inside a hollowed boulder, was laid to rest in the forest cemetery founded by artist Harry Kramer in 1992.