Research Catalog

Title

Wilhelm Morgner und die Anfänge der abstrakten Kunst / herausgegeben von Klaus Kösters.

Publication

• Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kösters, Klaus
• Weihs, Walter
• Morgner, Wilhelm, 1891-1917.

Description

190 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Wilhelm Morgner (1891-1917) is one of the few artists of the European avant-garde to find his own way to abstraction before 1914. Only a few years thereafter remained for his artistic work, however, as he was killed in action in 1917 during World War I. The occasion for this publication is the hundredth anniversary of Morgner's death in 2017. The starting point of his artistic path was the Expressionist concept of the artist as an exceptional individual who liberates himself from tradition to create a new kind of art on his own accord. He would later show an interest in theosophy and anthroposophy, which led him to abstract art--like Vassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Frantisek Kupka, and Piet Mondrian, who are also presented in the book with comparable works. Thus Morgner's paintings fall into line with a European art movement that decisively contributed to the development of abstract art prior to 1914.

Subjects

• Painting, Abstract
• Drawing, German
• Morgner, Wilhelm, 1891-1917
• Drawing, German > 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Morgner, Wilhelm, 1891-1917 > Contemporaries
• Painting, Abstract > Germany > 20th century
• Contemporaries
• Germany
• Painting, German > 20th century

Note

• Includes a biographical essay on the artist by Walter Weihs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188).

Call Number

ReCAP 18-25692

ISBN

• 9783775740975
• 377574097X

LCCN

2016509126

OCLC

955313508

Title

Wilhelm Morgner und die Anfänge der abstrakten Kunst / herausgegeben von Klaus Kösters.

Publisher

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Kösters, Klaus, author, editor.

Weihs, Walter, writer of supplementary texual content.

Morgner, Wilhelm, 1891-1917. Works. Selections. 2016.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 18-25692