Das Gedächtnis der Kunst. Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart

Category	Group Exhibitions
Author	Wettengl, Kurt / Assmann, Aleida / Fehr, Michael / Hils-Brockhoff, Evelyn / Hofmann, Detlef / Jussen, Bernhard / Koch, Gerhard R. / Lauter, Rolf / Meder, Thomas / Steen, Jürgen
Publisher	Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
Year	2000
Details	Softcover, 278 pages
ISBN	3775709967
Language	German

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Stammheim 1994

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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the following exhibition:

Das Gedächtnis in der Kunst. Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart The Memory in Art: History and Remembrance in Contemporary Art Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 16 December 2000 - 18 March 2001

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Author

Date

Stammheim. Gerhard Richter

Seymour, Anne

1995

Publisher

Anthony D'Offay, London

Details

Softcover, 60 pages

ISBN

0947564667

Language

German, English

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The book is published in a limited edition of 1000 copies that are signed by the artist.

This limited edition reproduces in facsimile each of the twenty-three Richter works executed on pages of the book Stammheim. Der Prozess gegen die Rote Armee Fraktion by Pieter H. Bakker Schut – the story of the alleged simultaneous suicides in 1977 of three German members of the Red Army Faction in Stammheim prison.

The images here are abstract, yet closely historically and thematically linked to the artist's 18. Oktober 1977 series. They affirm Richter's continued search for a means to communicate historical themes beyond the physicality of the paint surface, his refusal to completely dispense with metaphor, his belief that art can express profound mourning while remaining, according to Richter, "the highest form of hope".

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