Dietmar Elger

In six chapters -- The Brucke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna -- this publication deals with a specifically German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has quite accurately been described as ""the most significant German contribution to 20th century European art."" Beside a number of famous names, including Beckmann, Heckel, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Macke, Marc, Mueller, Nolde, Schiele, and Schmidt-Rottluff, the author also introduces several lesser-known artists, such as Campendonk, FelixMuller, Meidner, Morgner, Munter, and von Werefkin.

A Revolution in German Art

Expressionism

Donald Judd

William Agee

Artwork by Donald Judd. Contributions by Martin Engler, William Agee. Text by Dietmar Elger.

Donald Judd, Colorist

natural copies : 10.12.1995-4.2.1996, Sprengel Museum Hannover

Allan McCollum

Louise Lawler

Artwork by Louise Lawler. Contributions by Thomas Weski. Text by Dietmar Elger.

For Sale

"Volker Bradke", 1966, 16 mm, s/w, 14.32 min

Gerhard Richter

Dieter Roth

Dorothy Iannone

Bernadette Walter

Oliver Koerner von Gustorf

Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone

Donald Judd, Couleur

15.11.1992 bis 7.2.1993, Sprengel-Museum Hannover

Die Metamorphosen der Bilder

Né en 1932, Gerhard Richter est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des artistes les plus influents sur la scène internationale. Les quarante dernières années ont vu naître une œuvre qui doit sa position actuelle au dialogue qu’elle a su instaurer entre la peinture et le procédé mécanique de reproduction qu’est la photographie. Au-delà des contradictions apparentes, la diversité thématique et les ruptures de style qui parcourent l’œuvre de Richter reflètent les fluctuations du point de vue de l’artiste, qui cherche inlassablement à « se faire une idée de ce monde ». Elles sont aussi l'expression, pour reprendre ses termes, du « vague et sans mesure », de « l'incertitude perpétuelle » qu’il revendique. A l'encontre des voies conceptuelles ou des tenants de la mort de l'art, son travail n’en apparaît pas moins comme un acte de foi dans les possibilités et la capacité illimitée de la peinture à invertir et à décomposer l'image. Si de nombreux critiques, confortés par l’acharnement de Gerhard Richter à nier toute implication personnelle dans son travail, ont qualifié sa peinture d’« œuvre sans auteur », Dietmar Elger parvient, grâce à des interprétations inédites d’un grand nombre de tableaux mis en regard de la biographie de l’artiste, à modifier la vision que nous avons de son œuvre. Afin de mener à bien son travail, l’auteur a puisé non seulement dans la littérature publiée sur Gerhard Richter, mais aussi dans les archives et dans la correspondance que l’artiste a mises à son entière disposition. Cet ouvrage est enfin et surtout le fruit d’entretiens de l’auteur avec l’artiste et avec de nombreux témoins directs.

Gerhard Richter, Peintre

Catalogue Raisonné, 1988-1994

L'expressionisme

Gerhard Richter in der Dresdener Galerie

Florence

Comic Strip

GerdRichter

Dr Dietmar Elger

Abstract Art (Basic Genre Series) (Taschen Basic Art Genre)

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being released on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday in February 2012.Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years researching and preparing this publication. The five-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter's paintings and sculptures will be published over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist's handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.The first volume encompasses the works Gerhard Richter assigned numbers 1 to 198, covering the years 1962 to 1968. A total of 385 paintings and sculptures are listed, including more than thirty of which were previously unknown.

Catalogue Raisonné, 1962-1968

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Georges Didi-Huberman

Over the sixty years of his career Gerhard Richter has produced a standard-setting oeuvre whose thematic and stylistic diversity has no equal among the art of our time.

Pictures / Series

In 1916 a meeting of artists, writers, émigrés and opposition figures took place in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Under the shadow of the First World War, this was the starting point for the dissemination of the artistic and literary style known as Dadaism.

Dadaism

This fascinating book offers unprecedented insight into artist Gerhard Richter's life and work. From his childhood in Nazi Germany to his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and '70s, this work presents a complete portrait of the often-reclusive Richter.

A Life in Painting

Amid a frenzy of lurid color and distortion, discover a calm, authoritative overview of German Expressionism. From the leading collectives of Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter to regional schools and lesser known artists, Dietmar Elger leads us through the protagonists and principles of this vivid 20th-century movement--its stylistic cacophony, ...

Expressionism. a Revolution in German Art

Chein-I Chang

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