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Cloud & crystal : the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer collection / exhibition and catologue by Anette Kruszynski ; with contributions by Dietmar Elger [and seven others] ; with artist texts by Nóra Lukács, Ulrike Schmitt, Angela Wenzel ; translation, Amy Klement, Steven Lindberg.

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Cloud & crystal : the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer collection / exhibition and catologue by Anette Kruszynski ; with contributions by Dietmar Elger [and seven others] ; with artist texts by Nóra Lukács, Ulrike Schmitt, Angela Wenzel ; translation, Amy Klement, Steven Lindberg.
Publication
  • Düsseldorf : Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen ; Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Kruszynski, Anette
  • Elger, Dietmar
  • Lukács, Nóra
  • Schmitt, Ulrike, 1978-
  • Wenzel, Angela
  • Klement, Amy
  • Lindberg, Steven
  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) host institution.
Description
300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles; 30 cm
Summary
The turning away from the picture is one of the biggest upheavals in the art history of the 20th century. Conceptual Art took the place of figural painting. This is also underscored by the important role that the Düsseldorf gallerist and collector Konrad Fischer played in the international art scene starting in the 1960s. Konrad Fischer established his gallery, which he developed into one of the most influential galleries in the world, in 1967. He represented artists of Minimal and Conceptual Art such as Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Hamish Fulton, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, or Bruce Nauman. The gallery gained art-historical importance above all through exhibiting American artists, and thus contributed to making Düsseldorf into a hotspot for contemporary art. The State of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired the impressive art collection of Konrad Fischer and his wife, comprising 250 works by some thirty-five artists, as well as the gallery archive, for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen at the beginning of 2014. The exhibition catalogue now provides a summary of Konrad Fischer's significant life's work. Exhibition: K20 Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf, Germany (24.09.2016-08.01.2017).
Series Statement
Kerber art
Uniform Title
  • "Wolke & Kristall". English
  • Kerber art
Alternative Title
  • Cloud and crystal
  • Dorothee and Konrad Fischer collection
Subject
  • Fischer, Dorothee > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Fischer, Konrad, 1939-1996 > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > Private collections > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 24, 2016-January 8, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"I have big plans" : the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection / Anette Kruszynski ; Why the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection and Archive should be perceived as a unity / Maria Müller-Schareck -- Artists -- Konrad and Carl : "...you are a fine fellow, an artist, not a stuffy dealer" / Lynda Morris -- "You'll see" : Gerhard Richter and Konrad Fischer / Dietmar Elger -- Artists -- Differentiations in the system : some remarks on the exhibition series Prospect, 1968-1976 / Philipp Kaiser -- Artists -- Konrad Fischer as a double agent : the artist as gallerist as curator as art agent / Isabelle Malz -- "At Konrad Fischer" : the gallery as concept and artists' group, as site of production and promotion / Doris Krystof -- Gallery, art scene, global affairs : a synopsis / Valerie Hortolani.
ISBN
  • 9783735602978
  • 3735602975
OCLC
962330777
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library