Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Subtitle: das polyphone Bild : Gouachen, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen : Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20. September 2012-3. Februar 2013, Museum Liner Appenzell, 17. März-16. Juni 2013, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, 14. Juli-14. September 2013
By: herausgegeben von der Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung
Contributors: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Liner Appenzell; Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst (Goslar, Germany); Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung
Publisher: Hatje Cantz; Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ostfildern
Language: ger
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9783775734332
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Exhibitions
Work titles: Works
Description: Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-1968) used color as the theme of his art. It was the means and the goal of his work, not only in his paintings but also in most of the gouaches, watercolors, and drawings. This publication presents a good 110 works on paper, reflecting the development of the artist throughout his career. From the 1937 images of Lofoten, with their intense depictions of nature, to the postwar Hecate pictures, which still contain figurative elements, the energy of the colors can be seen as they continue to unfold ever more freely in the subsequent Fugal paintings. In 1955 the disc became his predominant visual motif, and Nay guided the colors to create peaceful harmonies. In 1963 he began crossing out the discs, almost automatically forming the shape of an eye, and in his final paintings he pared back the intensified drama of the eye pictures, reducing the colors to an ornamental juxtaposition of planes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 162).