Aus der Werkstatt eines Künstlers from the series Ex Libris
2003 · Artist's book with offset bookplate
overall (closed): 11 x 7 9/16 x 3/8" (28 x 19.2 x 0.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Günther Förg
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146
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Drawings of the Eighties from the Collection, Part I
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990
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Günther Förg was a German painter and photographer who worked across abstraction, figuration, and architectural documentation. His practice encompassed large-scale gestural paintings, often layered with photographic imagery and text, alongside systematic photographic surveys of modernist buildings and urban structures. Active from the 1980s onward, Förg developed a distinctive approach that treated painting and photography as interconnected modes of inquiry rather than separate disciplines. His work oscillated between intimate, mark-based abstraction and coolly observational architectural studies, interrogating the relationships between gesture, representation, and documentary precision.
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