Gesture and line

Name: Gesture and line
Brand: The British Museum Press
Price: 46.75 AUD

four post-war German and Austrian artists from the Duerckheim Collection

By: John-Paul Stonard, Michael Semff

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Hardcover | 7 January 2024

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112 Pages

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23.0 x 25.8 x 2.3

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An extraordinary and stunning selection of unique and compelling artworks by four artists from post-war Germany and Austria, complete with a brief overview of each artist''s work and career, with an introduction essay by art historians John-Paul Sonard and Michael Semff.

From the 1960s drawing assumed a prominent position in the practice of a rising generation of post-war artists in Germany and Austria. This publication examines works on paper by four artists still comparatively little known in the UK. While Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, household names in German contemporary art, are well known for their large and commanding works, a quieter and more reflective strand is found in the work of Rudi Troger (b. 1929), Karl Bohrmann (1928-1998) and Carl-Heinz Wegert (1926-2007). Small and intimate in scale, their drawings focus on the abstracted, minimalist figure, the studio interior and landscapes, through a sensitive use of line and a spare, self-effacing gesturalism. By contrast, the Austrian actionist Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) presents visceral depictions of the human anatomy in his large lithographs, which come out of his notorious actionist performances. This publication celebrates a second major gift to the British Museum from the German collector Count Christian Duerckheim, whose first gift featured in Germany Divided: Baselitz and his generation, published by the British Museum Press in 2014.

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