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Fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; 223 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 27 x 29 cm. Notes; Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Artvera's Gallery, Geneva, Sept. 16, 2011-Feb. 18, 2012; some works will also be shown at the Kitzbühel Museum, Dec. 3, 2011-Feb. 19, 2012 and at the Kunstsammlung im Stadtmuseum Jena, Dec. 7, 2013-Feb. 23, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (page 191). Text in French, English and German. Contents; Préface / Sofia Kornarova -- Friedrich Karl Gotsch, expressionniste, romantique et solitaire / Marion Leuba -- Friedrich Karl Gotsch: "aucun vent ne souffle dans nos voiles" / Régine Bonnefoit -- Friedrich Karl Gotsch. La seconde génération expressionniste / Chantal Bartolini -- Un Artiste d'Allemagne du Nord, proche de la culture scandinave -- Les années de formation -- Une enfance dans le Schleswig-Holstein -- Le premier enseignement d'Hans Ralfs à Kiel -- Un jeune peintre très bien informé -- L'école des beaux-arts de Dresde -- Ralfs, Munch, Die Brücke, Kokoschka quelles influences chez Gotsch? -- En préambule -- L'apport d'Hans Ralfs -- L'apport d'Edvard Munch -- L'apport d'Oskar Kokoschka -- L'apport de Die Brücke -- La France: le goût de la géométrie et de la construction -- L'incertitude des années 1930 -- 1945, une réflexion sur la tragédie du nazisme -- La Renaissance d'après-guerre -- Quelques années de transition -- L'apothéose de l'art de Gotsch -- Le probable encouragement moral du mouvement CoBrA -- Géométrie libre: des pointes et des triangles -- La multiplication des petites formes à l'intérieur d'un plus large ensemble -- L'inspiration africaine -- Mythologie et relectures d'oeuvres célèbres -- Une abstraction construite -- Une abstraction lyrique -- Postlude: aquarelles et monotypes -- Gotsch, le second souffle de l'expressionnisme allemand. Summary; This book presents the work of Friedrich Karl Gotsch, an artist from the second gener-ation of Expressionists, who trained at the Dresden School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s. Influenced by Die BrUcke in his approach to form, he in fact owed the full flow-ering of his individuality and the release of his creative talent to Kokoschka. Gotsch's art enjoyed a new lease of life after the Second World War, reaching the peak of its popularity in the fifties and sixties. Starting in a straightforwardly Expressionist style, his work soon became highly individual and instantly recognisable: the energy, contrasting primary colours, vivid outlines and free brushwork combine to produce particularly powerful, spellbinding paintings. This sumptuous book-cum-catalogue includes an introductory essay on Gotsch's art by Marion Leuba, curator for the Beaune museums, followed by a further illustrated essay by the art historian Chantal Bartolini, who highlights the various stages in the artist's development over his long creative life and the cultural milieux and influences which helped forge them. These two contributions are followed by a catalogue of full-page colour plates. This retrospective of Gotsch's painting provides an opportunity to discover or rediscover an artist of the first rank within the Expressionist movement whose influence stretched beyond the borders of Schleswig-Holstein, where the Gotsch Foundation is situated, and indeed was not confined to Germany itself. Subjects; Gotsch, Friedrich Karl 1900-1984 - Exhibitions. Gotsch, Friedrich Karl 1900-1984. Expressionism (Art) - Germany - 20th century - Exhibitions. Painting, German - 20th century - Exhibitions. Wood-engraving, German - 20th century - Exhibitions. Expressionism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists. ART / Individual Artists / General. ART / History / General. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 237521
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