Research Catalog

Title

Markus Lüpertz : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2017.

Publication

• Munich, Germany : Sieveking Verlag, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Lüpertz, Markus
• Lüpertz, Markus
• Chiu, Melissa
• Hankins, Evelyn Carol
• Kosinski, Dorothy M.
• Shiff, Richard
• Weibel, Peter
• Phillips Collection, host institution
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, host institution
• Sieveking Verlag, publisher

Description

257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 31 cm

Summary

• The Hirshhorn celebrated the pioneering early works of Markus Lüpertz (b. Liberec, Czech Republic, 1941), one of the most influential contemporary German artists, with an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking paintings from the 1960s and 1970s. Lüpertz is internationally recognized as one of the German artists who initiated a return to figurative painting during the late 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition: Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History focuses on the early years of the artist's mature practice, reflecting his unique reconsideration of painting through the lenses of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and, more broadly, German postwar culture. Lüpertz, like many artists who came of age in the shadow of World War II, grappled with how he should engage with this recent past and, in particular, what he should paint. The artworks from this seminal period reveal how Lüpertz deftly challenged the limits of painting as he struggled to reconcile the weight of history with his desire to be what he has described as "a painter without responsibilities."
• In den mehr als 60 Jahren seines Schaffens hat Markus Lüpertz durch die suggestive Kraft und archaische Monumentalität seiner Malweise international höchste Anerkennung gefunden. Heute zählt der Malerfürst zu den herausragenden deutschen Künstlern der Gegenwart. In den Sechzigerjahren setzt er sich bereits als junger Maler den Tendenzen des Abstrakten Expressionismus und der Pop Art mit einfachen gegenständlichen Motiven entgegen. In dieser Zeit erfindet er die 'dithyrambische Malerei', bei der gegenständliche Inhalte in expressiver Manier miteinander verschmolzen werden. Neben dieser intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit dem Spannungsgefüge von Figuration und Abstraktion spielt auch die deutsche Geschichte eine zentrale Rolle in Lüpertz' frühem Werk. Mit symbolträchtigen 'deutschen Motiven' wie etwa Stahlhelme findet er zu einer ganz eigenen Ikonografie. Es folgen Phasen der 'Stil-Malerei', die sich von dinghaften Inhalten befreit, der 'mythologischen Malerei' und der 'Landschaftsmalerei'. Anlässlich der ersten umfassenden Werkschau zu Markus Lüpertz in den USA entstand ein reich bebilderter Band, der einen weiten Bogen von den visionären Anfängen bis zu den jüngsten Arbeiten dieses einzigartigen Künstlers spannt. Exhibition: The Phillips Collection / Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, United States (27.05.-10.09.2017).

Alternative Title

Markus Lüpertz, threads of history.

Subject

• Lüpertz, Markus > Exhibitions
• Lüpertz, Markus > Interviews
• Painting, Abstract > Germany > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Abstract > Germany > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, German > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, German > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• This book is published in conjunction with the exhibitions: "Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 24-September 10, 2017, and "Markus Lüpertz", The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, May 27-September 3, 2017

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Q&A / Markus Lüpertz -- Greeting / Ambassador Peter Wittig -- Directors' foreword / Melissa Chiu and Dorothy Kosinski -- Markus Lüpertz / Dorothy Kosinski -- A stone is a hill, a hill is a stone / Richard Shiff -- "A painter without responsibilities" : Markus Lüpertz, 1962-1975 / Evelyn C. Hankins -- Painting in the manner of Markus Lüpertz; or, The dandyism of existence / Peter Weibel -- Plates -- Plate list -- Chronology -- Sources -- Solo exhibitions -- Group exhibitions.

Call Number

JQG 17-1048

ISBN

• 3944874595
• 9783944874593

OCLC

975845757

Title

Markus Lüpertz : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2017.

Publisher

Munich, Germany : Sieveking Verlag, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Event

"Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History" : May 24-September 10, 2017, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

"Markus Lüpertz" : May 27-September 3, 2017, The Phillips Collection, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Place of Publication

Germany Bavaria Munich.

Added Author

Lüpertz, Markus, artist.

Lüpertz, Markus. Works. Selections. 2017.

Chiu, Melissa, writer of foreword.

Hankins, Evelyn Carol, writer of supplementary texual content.

Kosinski, Dorothy M., writer of foreword, writer of supplementary texual content.

Shiff, Richard, writer of supplementary texual content.

Weibel, Peter, writer of supplementary texual content.

Phillips Collection, host institution.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, host institution.

Sieveking Verlag, publisher.

Added Title

Markus Lüpertz, threads of history.

Research Call Number

JQG 17-1048