Britta E. Buhlmann Bücher

As a minimal form of expression in drawing, the line is Hanns Schimansky's true language. In the course of his artistic career now spanning more than fifty years, the artist - born in Bitterfeld in 1949 - has made its voice heard in the most diverse of variations; he has played through it, extended it powerfully across the paper, or let it flow gently, always wresting fresh meanings from its simplicity. His inexhaustible and yet never repetitive daily engagement with drawing has enabled him to carve out a characterful, distinctive position for himself in contemporary art. The result is a universe of the finest lines and structures, creases and folds, chromatic settings, blotchy-black colour gradients, sometimes hectic or then lyrically calm movements. Hanns Schimansky - professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1998 to 2015 - is an explorer, a bold minimalist adventurer in the magical realm of paper. The book presents a selection of drawings and foldings of Hanns Schimansky from 2010 to 2020.

As an exponent of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann (b. Weißenburg, Germany, 1880; d. New York, USA, 1966) ranks among the preeminent artists of the twentieth century. As a teacher at his Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1933 after emigrating to the United States, he exerted a formative influence over a generation of young painters. With Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and others, he was a member of the illustrious New York School, a loose association of visual artists. In 1950 he was spending time in Europe and collaborated with the architects Josep Lluís Sert and Paul Lester Wiener on designs for colorful wall paintings to be executed on buildings in Chimbote, Peru. The urban masterplan they developed for the city?s post-World War II expansion was never realized, and so Hofmann?s intensely colorful works in large formats have been known only to specialists. The selection gathered in this book together with drawings and a city plan provides focused insight into a visionary project.00Exhibition: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (09.04. - 18.09.2022).

Der Katalog stellt eine Sammlung hochkarätiger Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphiken von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner vor, die jüngst als Dauerleihgabe aus Hamburger Privatbesitz ins mpk kam. Der 1880 in Aschaffenburg geborene und 1938 in Davos gestorbene Künstler ist der wohl bedeutendste Meister des deutschen Expressionismus. Sein Schaffen gilt als die herausragendste graphische Leistung seit Dürer. Kirchners Zeichnungen sind die ersten, unmittelbarsten Manifestationen seiner künstlerischen Ideen und damit besonders nah an seiner Persönlichkeit, seinem Ausdruckswillen