Armin Zweite Livres

One of the world's most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorization. In this expansive and authoritative overview, Armin Zweite leads readers through every phase of Richter's celebrated career including his early artistic education in East Germany and his later prolific output in West Germany: the black and white photo paintings, the brilliantly conceived color charts and lush, inscrutable gray paintings, installations with glass and mirrors, his landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, and his monumental abstract paintings, which broke records at auction. Also included are selections from Richter's larger-scale thematic works, such as Atlas, his ongoing collection of photographs and newspaper clippings, and October 18, 1977, a series of paintings commemorating the lives and deaths of members of a German left-wing terrorist group. The beautiful plates sections feature exquisite reproductions of more than 250 of his most famous works, including Ten Large Color-Charts (1966), Annunciation after Titian (1973), Faust (1980), Skull with Candle (1983), Funeral (1988), Strip (2012), and Double Gray (2014). Throughout, Zweite's clear-eyed commentary offers an expert appraisal of the breadth of Richter's oeuvre. This six-decade monograph of Richter's work is a visually stunning and articulate appreciation by one of the world's foremost experts on the artist and his life

"Drawing has always been supremely important to me," Rebecca Horn said in an interview a few years ago, likely surprising many readers. Rebecca Drawings, Sculptures, Installations, Films 1964-2006 brings together a wide-ranging collection of the artist's works on paper, many produced in conjunction with her early performances. Along with props, they reveal the intense physical and mental work that went into the aesthetics of those pieces. A selection of diagrammatic representations also illustrates Horn's strategies in placing machines and equipment from films in exhibitions, where they took on a life of their own. The book also includes scores, technical designs and evidently spontaneous drawings, many of which are enriched with collaged objects, printed words and lines of poetry. This first publication devoted to a previously largely overlooked group of works provides an excellent survey of Horn's graphic art.

Francis Bacon (19091992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. This book presents about sixty of Bacons disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death.

The Museum Brandhorst opens its doors in the heart of Munich's Kunstareal in an innovative museum building designed by the architects Sauerbruch Hutton. It presents the highlights of its collection of over 700 works of modern and contemporary art. The opening represents the first impressive culmination of a unique collaboration between public and private resources.The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection is one of the foremost collections of private origin in Germany. One central focus is the art of the second half of the twentieth century with works by Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Bruce Nauman, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. Essential are moreover the works by contemporary artists such as Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, Robert Gober, Eric Fischl, Katharina Fritsch, and Franz West. The core of the collection consists of an extensive group of works by the modern-art protagonists Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, who are represented with masterworks from all phases of their careers, in a quantity unmatched within Europe.

The combination of pictorial motifs and words or sentences has long been a special feature of Ed Ruschaś (born 1937) paintings. As he himself commented in an interview in 1989: "Words are pattern-like, and in their horizontality they answer my investigation into landscape ... they are almost not words--they are objects that become words." This attraction to combinations of word and image has naturally disposed Ruscha toward the book as an art form, and as both an object and subject in his paintings. This volume commemorates a bequest of paintings, photographs and books by Ruscha to the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, complementing their existing works. It offers a representative selection of books published by Ruscha, ranging from the legendary Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962) to On the Road (2009)--a new edition, designed and illustrated by Ruscha, of Jack Kerouacś 1957 novel. Armin Zweiter was director of the Brandhorst Museum, 2008-2013. Publisher's note.

Sean Scully's large-scale canvases carry on the rich legacy of postwar American abstract painting in an age when much of the critical focus has turned to subject-driven art. Using a deliberately restricted vocabulary of lines or bands of color that allude to architectural elements such as portals, windows, and walls, Scully, an Irish-born, English-trained, naturalized American, has generated a significant, vibrant, and compelling body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995 traces the evolution of his art through paintings and related works on paper spanning this important period of contemporary art, a time wherein Scully evolved from a painter whose work was severely hard-edge and minimal, to one whose bravura handling of paint and command of resonant color take nonrepresentational painting towards a decidedly humanistic end

Das photographische Werk von Bernd Becher (1931–2007) und Hilla Becher (1934–2015) ist seit ihren Anfängen in den 1960er Jahren nicht nur Gegenstand formalästhetischer Diskussionen und Analysen, sondern inzwischen selbst ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil der jüngeren Kunstgeschichte. Ihr Umgang mit dem Medium Photographie, der sich am Vokabular des Sichtbaren ausrichtet und seinem Thema – der industriellen Architektur – über Jahrzehnte hinweg systematisch treu blieb, begründete eine neue Tradition der Dokumentarphotographie, als deren Initiatoren und Wegbereiter sie heute gelten. Aus Anlass der großen Becher-Retrospektive im New Yorker Metropolitan Museum (Juli bis Oktober 2022) legen wir zwei Klassiker unserer Becher-Edition neu auf: Bernd & Hilla Becher. Leben und Werk von Susanne Lange und Bernd & Hilla Becher. Typologien. Typologien, 2003 als Katalog der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen erschienen, ist inzwischen ein Standardwerk unseres Hauses. Es enthält 130 – und damit nahezu alle existierenden – Zusammenstellungen von Einzelphotographien gleicher Gebäudetypen als Tableaus. Insgesamt zwölf Sachgruppen industrieller Bauten, von Wassertürmen bis Fabrikhallen, bereiteten die Bechers in zahlenmäßig unterschiedlich bestückten Typologien auf. Die so verdichtete Fülle des Materials – alles in allem 1528 Aufnahmen – erlaubt ein vergleichendes Sehen und vereinigt in sich wissenschaftliche Systematik und ästhetische Empirie.

Hrsg. u. Einf. von Zweite, Armin Bildkommentare von Hoberg, Annegret Zahlr. meist farb. Abb. 288 S.