Susanne Gaensheimer

Anette Kruszynski

Stein Olav Henrichsen

Edvard Munch gesehen von Karl Ove Knausgård

The turning away from the picture is one of the biggest upheavals in 20th century art history. Conceptual Art took the place of figurative painting.This significant paradigm shift is also underscored by the important role that the legendary D�sseldorf gallerist and collector Konrad Fischer played in the international art scene starting in the 1960s.Konrad Fischer established his gallery, which he developed into one of the most influential galleries in the world, in 1967. He represented artists of Minimal and Conceptual Art such as Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Hamish Fulton, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, or Bruce Nauman.The gallery gained art-historical importance above all through exhibiting American artists, and thus contributed to making D�sseldorf into a hotspot for contemporary art.The State of North Rhine - Westphalia acquired the impressive art collection of Konrad Fischer and his wife, comprising 250 works by some 35 artists, as well as the gallery archive, for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen at the beginning of 2014. The exhibition catalogue now provides a summary of Konrad Fischer's significant life's work.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection, at K20 Grabbeplatz, D�sseldorf, 24 September 2016 - 8 January 2017.

Anette Kruszynski

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