
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
August 6, 1928
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
February 22, 1987
Andy Warhol
Biography
Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.