Germaine Richier
Subtitle: Retrospektive
By: herausgegeben von Matthias Frehner ... [et al.].
Contributors: Spanke, Daniel, author; Lorenz, Ulrike, author; Patruno, Stefanie, author
Publisher: Wienand
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9783868321791
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: 55 years after her death, the extensive work of Germaine Richier (1902-1959) is re-assessed in a major retrospective. Although the early deceased sculptor - revered by Alberto Giacometti - created key works of their time and occupied an important position in the art, her work was long known only to a small circle of experts. Richier's Kafkaesque bronze figures with wrinkly surfaces were considered as completion of expressive realism, but not as a driving force for future generations. The present volume positioned its work now including in the context of the period discussed references to art history of the 20th century and makes a radical revaluation of their oeuvre. Previously unpublished and long not shown works present the artist as a central protagonist of modernity.
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Bern, November 25, 2013 - April 6, 2014; Kunsthalle Mannheim, May 9 - August 24, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vorwort und Dank  -- Matthias Frehner und Ulrike Lorenz; title: Germaine Richier-Aussöhnung  -- Jean-Louise Prat; title: Klassik ohne Klassizismus, Mythos ohne Mythologie. Die Verwandlung der französischen Plastik von Auguste Rodin über Antoine Bourdelle zu Germaine Richier  -- Daniel Spanke; title: Commencement, tout commencement-Germaine Richier und die Schweizer Kunst  -- Matthias Frehner; title: Zwischen Menschlichkeit und Animalität-Aspekte der Metamorphose im plastischen Werk von Germaine Richier  -- Stefanie Patruno; title: Seul l'humain compte. Germaine Richier, die existenzialistische Philosophie und der Feminismus -- Jonas Jecker.