Zurückgehn, Weitergehn, Fortgehn, 1966

ArtistRupprecht Geiger, München 1908–2009 München

Mediumhere 15 out of 20 screen prints

State/print versionEdition: 325 numbered copies

Image dimensions35,1 × 28,5 cm

Sheet dimensions35,1 × 57 cm

Status

not on display

About the workA fascination with colour runs through the entire body of work of the Munich architect and painter Rupprecht Geiger. It can be seen, for example, in his exploration of colour screen prints from the mid-1950s onwards. Using fluorescent pigments, which were new at the time and which strongly reflected the light, he was able to explore the variations of colour. Geiger attributed a large part of the perception of colour to the power of imagination: “To really see colour, you have to close your eyes and think about it,” he wrote in his 1975 book “Colour is an Element”.

AccessionKemp Collection Foundation 2016

ProvenanceDecember 1966 Willi Kemp (Cologne 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) acquired from Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne; 2016 Kemp Collection Foundation in the Kunstpalast acquired by gift of Willi Kemp

Inventory numberKemp 1008

Post-War Modernism

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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