Ellsworth Kelly's oeuvre can perhaps best be summed up by a phrase from Gottfried Boehm: "In between: this is the shortest formula of his aesthetics." With abstract expressionism at its peak, and based on the traditions of the abstract avant-garde in dialogue with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting behind. In a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception, he not only explores the relationships of painting and wall, sculpture and space, but also, and in particular, the relationship between viewer and work. A selection of more than 40 pieces of art from the past five decades, most of them from the collection of the artist, this book offers an expert investigation into the artistic development of one of the leading exponents of international postwar art.

Ellsworth Kelly: In-Between Spaces, Works 1956-2002 (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Weigel, Viola

History & Criticism

Hatje Cantz Publishers

London-based artist Lothar Götz (born 1963) takes the geometric delineations of empty building interiors as the starting point for his intensely colorful abstract murals. He begins with drawings, which may then incarnate as murals later on; these murals then convert architectural space into bright, vertiginous geometries.

Lothar Götz: Works 2011

Asendorf, Christoph

Reference

Hatje Cantz

An overview of Baumgarte's life's work, in which she explored the social controversies of postwar West Germany in exuberant watercolors. During a period of radical political change, German painter Ruth Baumgarte (1923-2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence are at the center. This volume introduces her as a passionate drawer, a versatile applied graphic artist and an expressive painter. Baumgarte was an art student during World War II, and the turbulent events of her lifetime left visible traces in her work. Beginning in the early 1950s she turned her attention to subjects from the world of theater and industry. Later in her career she made a study of environmental subjects, including the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, as well as questions of social and political justice. She traveled to Africa more than forty times and frequently painted people and scenes she encountered there. Her robust colors and bold brushstrokes, which redefined watercolor painting, are reproduced in Ruth Baumgarte: Become Who You Are! The Art of Living with more than 250 color illustrations.

Ruth Baumgarte: Become Who You Are! The Art of Living

Hirmer Publishers

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