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. Includes bibliographical references. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 24 May - 10 Sept. 2017 & The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 27 May - 3 Sept. 2017.
Contents:
Painting in the manner of Markus Lüpertz; or, The dandyism of existence / Peter Weibel -- 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 -- Group exhibitions. Plate list -- Chronology -- Sources -- Solo exhibitions -- Group exhibitions.
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. 00Exhibition: The Phillips Collection / Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, United States (27.05.-10.09.2017).
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