Famous dachshund owners are not only found in royal houses or in Hollywood, some artists had fallen into Dachshunds as well. Thus the first dachshund of Andy Warhol managed to get next to portraits of Marilyn, Liz and Elvis in the art collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg.
Cats and Dogs (Archie), 1976 Acrylic and silkscreen paint on canvas
Andy Warhol and Archie
In 1973 Warhol was persuaded by his then life partner Jed Johnson to buy a dog and so smooth-haired dachshund Archie came to the art scene of New York City. Archie even attended press conferences where Andy Warhol passed questions to his dachshund that he didn’t want to answer himself.
Another dachshund work of art was made by Andy Warhol as a commission for Gabrielle Keiller in London after Polaroid shots of her Dachshund Maurice. At that time, Andy Warhol did not want to travel to England because he did not want to part with his own dachshund. Just as little he wanted him to undergo the strict quarantine required to enter the United Kingdom.
In the last years of his life, Warhol lived alone with his two miniature dachshunds in a five-storey house surrounded by antiques, art, boxes of wigs and vast quantities of biscuit tins.
Site: Dachshunds in Pop Culture: Andy Warhol
Link Tipps:
- Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species Prints
- 1970s Face-off: Portrait Exchange by Jamie Wyeth and Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol’s Cats and Dogs
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