# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-brecht
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:06.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-brecht"
name: "George Brecht"
slug: "george-brecht"
description: "George Brecht, born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978."
tagline: "American artist and composer (1926-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/GeorgeBrecht.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-08-27"
deathDate: "2008-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.96576933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چورچ بريتشت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88"
    title: "ジョージ・ブレクト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "George Brecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Брехт, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Brecht"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/406dd4c4-64f3-43a3-a145-ed66e2d411a7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump