Artistic duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude fought long and hard to wrap the German Reichstag building in their signature fabric. Photographer Wolfang Volz recalls the ultimate highs and lows.

The Wrapped Reichstag project by Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, Berlin, 1995 Credit: Reinhard Krause / Reuters Refusing any sponsorship, saying it would limit their freedom, they funded ...

“I am an artist who is totally irrational, totally irresponsible and completely free,” says Christo, cheerfully speaking via video call from his New York studio and home – a five-story ...

Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times Even more difficult, politically, was Christo’s plan to wrap the Reichstag in Berlin. The first drawing was made in 1971. For decades thereafter he ...

In June 1995 artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin in fabric. The former German parliament building sat on the border between East and West Berlin. It had been gutted ...

Christo spoke to Lucy Burns in 2019. This programme is a rebroadcast. Picture: view of west and south facades of Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-1995 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Photo by Wolfgang ...

He was 84 years old. Together, known simply as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, they wrapped iconic landmarks in fabric, such as the Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985 and the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 ...

Born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria ... when they pulled off Wrapped Reichstag, covering the German parliament building in Berlin in aluminium fabric, less than six years after the ...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the ... open image in gallery The wrapped Reichstag in 1995 (Reuters) (REUTERS) The Wrapped Reichstag project, for which the couple were best known, was ...

The couple’s lives are preserved in a SoHo building where for decades they plotted their monumental projects. Hidden among ...