1960
Blinky Palermo
Peter Heisterkamp while studying under Joseph Beuys with Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter in Dusseldorf, adopts the pseudonym Blinky Palermo after the Philadelphia gangster and Sonny Liston boxing promoter Frank “Blinky” Palermo. Beuys supposedly said Heisterkamp looked like Palermo when wearing a certain hat.
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