Franz Gertsch: Aquarelle-Schottland 1961-1965 - Hardcover

Tanner, Paul

 
9783883758206: Franz Gertsch: Aquarelle-Schottland 1961-1965

Synopsis

In the early 1960s, the Swiss-born realist painter Franz Gertsch visited Scotland. Inspired by the flourishing of Abstract Expressionism in Europe, as well as the Scottish landscape, which so readily lent itself to that form of painting--open, verdurous, free--he created the watercolors collected in this volume. This publication is the most comprehensive presentation of all Gertsch's early watercolors in full-page color illustration, and establishes him as an important watercolor painter to be ranked along with Thomas Schttte and Luc Tuymans.

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About the Author

Franz Gertsch was born in Morigen, Switzerland in 1930, and studied in Bern. He made his first large-scale photorealist works in the late 1960s, and showed them to rapt attention in the early 1970s. His large-scale woodcut work, which he began in the 1980s, is unique--he works in formats that push the limits of paper production, and has opened new dimensions for a traditional medium. Gertschis work is represented in museums around the world.

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