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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Benteli |
Year | 2004 |
Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-7165-1336-1 |
Pages | 256 |
Weight | 1714 g |
Illustrations | with 100 col. & 50 b/w ills |
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Author(s) | Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath |
Article ID | art-09533 |
This is the first volume to present Franz Gertsch's whole work from his first drawings as a child to his late, mature work.
His paintings appear as a paradox: larger than life-sized and with extreme precision his motivs are presented. Evoking an aura of presence, only at an extremely close glance, the pictures suddenly appear much more blurred than expected. They dissolve into a myriad of colored points and carves.
In no other work, appearing and disappearing of figures and objects are that close. Only in Franz Gertsch's paintings, the direct contact to reality and its mysterious existance becomes clear.