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Franz Gertsch

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Franz Gertsch: Blow-Up

LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, Kirsten Degel, Dirk Luckow. Text by Tobia Bezzola, Dora Imhof, et al. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Exploring Gertsch’s photorealistic process from paintings to woodblock prints

Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 66 color / 25 bw. | 3/25/2025 | Awaiting stock
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Louisiana Visits Franz Gertsch

HATJE CANTZ
Edited with text by Anna Wesle. Text by Poul Erik Tøjner, Rainer Michael Mason, Beat Wismer, Ulrich Wilmes.

Artworks from Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Gerhard Richter and more in dialogue with Gertsch’s photorealistic paintings

Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color / 20 bw. | 2/25/2025 | Awaiting stock
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Franz Gertsch: The Seventies

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Kathleen Bühler, Luciano Castelli, Andreas Fiedler, Matthias Frehner, Helmut Friedel, Franz Gertsch, Maria Gertsch-Meer, Josef Helfenstein, Cathérine Hug, Anette Hüsch, Peter Iseli, Rita Kersting, Harald Kunde, Christiane Lange, Rainer Michael Mason, Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller, Anna M. Schafroth, Erika Schlessinger-Költzsch, Hemma Schmutz, Bernhart Schwenk, Samuel Vitali, Guido de Werd, Anna Wesle, Beat Wismer.

Key works and archival documents from the fabled Swiss hyperrealist’s early career

Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 90 color. | 11/10/2020 | Out of stock
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Franz Gertsch: Polyfocal Allover

LARS MüLLER PUBLISHERS/SWISS INSTITUTE/KARMA, NEW YORK
Edited with introduction by Simon Castets. Text by Tobia Bezzola, Eva Kenny, Timothy Leary, Dieter Roelstraete.

Paintings and prints spanning 50 years from this beloved pioneer of photorealism

Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 244 pgs / 90 color. | 4/13/2021 | In stock
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Franz Gertsch

KERBER
Edited with text by Roland Mönig. Text by Mona Stocker.

Pbk, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 68 pgs / 19 color / 3 bw. | 3/22/2016 | Not available
$39.95


Franz Gertsch: Seasons

KERBER
Edited by Tobia Bezzola, Sandra Haldi. Preface by Christoph Becker. Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Tobia Bezzola, Guido de Werd, Harald Kunde.

Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 92 pgs / 27 color. | 4/30/2012 | Not available
$55.00


Franz Gertsch: Retrospective

HATJE CANTZ
Essays by Matthias Frehner, Joachim Jäger, Ulrich Loock, Peter Schneemann, Reinhard Spieler and Samuel Vitali.

Hardcover, 11 x 12.25 in. / 288 pgs / 182 color / 22 bw. | 3/1/2006 | Not available
$65.00


Franz Gertsch: Aquarelle-Schottland 1961-1965

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Essay by Paul Tanner.

Hardcover, 13 x 9.75 in. / 136 pgs / 54 color. | 6/15/2004 | Not available
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Franz Gertsch: Blow-UpFranz Gertsch: Blow-Up

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, Kirsten Degel, Dirk Luckow. Text by Tobia Bezzola, Dora Imhof, et al. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

For his photorealistic approach, Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (1930–2022) projected slides onto a large canvas, painting over the image to create a slightly mysterious replica. Later in his career, he took this process a step further by turning his photographic references into woodcuts, a painstaking task that produced breathtakingly lifelike results.

This book was published in conjunction with Deichtorhallen Hamburg



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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Catalog: SPRING 2025 p. 141   

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Louisiana Visits Franz GertschLouisiana Visits Franz Gertsch

Postwar and Contemporary Art in Dialogue

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited with text by Anna Wesle. Text by Poul Erik Tøjner, Rainer Michael Mason, Beat Wismer, Ulrich Wilmes.

The Louisiana Museum brings 50 works by more than 30 artists to show at the Museum Franz Gertsch alongside his own art, creating a web of movements that can be linked to the Swiss painter and graphic artist. These include Pop art, Color Field painting and hard-edge painting, among others.



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Hatje Cantz

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Franz Gertsch: Polyfocal AlloverFranz Gertsch: Polyfocal Allover

Published by Lars Müller Publishers/Swiss Institute/Karma, New York.
Edited with introduction by Simon Castets. Text by Tobia Bezzola, Eva Kenny, Timothy Leary, Dieter Roelstraete.

A leading figure of photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (born 1930) has created monumental portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail over the course of a career spanning more than a half-century, which has proved of increasing influence upon subsequent generations.

Polyfocal Allover surveys paintings and woodcut prints from 1970 to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the frame is accorded equal value. The essays, interviews and conversations in this publication bring further definition to the lives and landscapes that Gertsch renders with such virtuosic, eerie precision.



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Lars Müller Publishers/Swiss Institute/Karma, New York

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Hardcover, 6 x 8.75 in. / 244 pgs / 90 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 126   

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Franz Gertsch: The SeventiesFranz Gertsch: The Seventies

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Kathleen Bühler, Luciano Castelli, Andreas Fiedler, Matthias Frehner, Helmut Friedel, Franz Gertsch, Maria Gertsch-Meer, Josef Helfenstein, Cathérine Hug, Anette Hüsch, Peter Iseli, Rita Kersting, Harald Kunde, Christiane Lange, Rainer Michael Mason, Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller, Anna M. Schafroth, Erika Schlessinger-Költzsch, Hemma Schmutz, Bernhart Schwenk, Samuel Vitali, Guido de Werd, Anna Wesle, Beat Wismer.

In 1969, Franz Gertsch (born 1930) painted Huaa...!, depicting a man on horseback, wildly galloping, which was base on a film still found in a magazine. Photographs have formed the basis for his work ever since. Generally produced by Gertsch himself, and included in this new survey of his early career, these photographs range from snapshots of the young Gertsch family, pictures from a trip to the South of France, photos of his encounters with Luciano Castelli and his dazzling circle of friends, and portraits of Patti Smith.

Published in the year of the artist’s 90th birthday, Franz Gertsch: The Seventies presents a selection of key works from the 1970s, reproduced both in full and with details at original size. Zeroing in on these almost abstract-looking details reveals the vibrant virtuosity of the paintings and their shimmering surfaces.



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Hatje Cantz

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Franz GertschFranz Gertsch

Published by Kerber.
Edited with text by Roland Mönig. Text by Mona Stocker.

Swiss painter Franz Gertsch (born 1930) has developed his photorealistic style over the last four decades. At the heart of this new monograph are his woodcuts: gigantic, enlarged monochrome images of leaves or flowing water that capture only a fraction of a second through a painstaking printmaking process.

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Kerber

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Paperback, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 68 pgs / 19 color / 3 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 184   

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Franz Gertsch: SeasonsFranz Gertsch: Seasons

Works from 1983-2011

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Tobia Bezzola, Sandra Haldi. Preface by Christoph Becker. Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Tobia Bezzola, Guido de Werd, Harald Kunde.

This volume takes Franz Gertsch’s new Four Seasons cycle, completed in 2011, as an occasion to look back on his paintings, prints and drawings of the past 30 years. One of Switzerland’s leading contemporary artists, Gertsch is a virtuoso of hyperrealism, as his newest series demonstrates.

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Kerber

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Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 92 pgs / 27 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 153   

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Franz Gertsch: Retrospective

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Essays by Matthias Frehner, Joachim Jäger, Ulrich Loock, Peter Schneemann, Reinhard Spieler and Samuel Vitali.

Retrospective, the most comprehensive monograph to date on the work of Franz Gertsch, celebrates the painter's 75th birthday. Since Harald Szeemann's legendary Documenta 5 in 1972, Gertsch has been one of the most significant photorealist or hyperrealist painters in the world. As a participant in three Venice Biennales, most recently in 2003, and the subject of solo shows at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gertsch has received some of the highest honors the art world has to offer. In 2002 the Museum Franz Gertsch opened in Burgdorf, near Bern, Switzerland: it is dedicated to his work--a rare honor for any living artist--and features a wide variety of it. Retrospective collects Gertsch's most important large-format paintings and monumental woodcuts, along with a broad selection of gouaches and watercolors from the late 1960s to the present, and includes a catalogue raisonnª of the paintings.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 11 x 12.25 in. / 288 pgs / 182 color / 22 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 123   

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Franz Gertsch: Aquarelle-Schottland 1961-1965

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Essay by Paul Tanner.

In the early 1960s, the Swiss-born realist painter Franz Gertsch visited Scotland. Inspired by the flourishing of Abstract Expressionism in Europe, as well as the Scottish landscape, which so readily lent itself to that form of painting--open, verdurous, free--he created the watercolors collected in this volume. This publication is the most comprehensive presentation of all Gertsch's early watercolors in full-page color illustration, and establishes him as an important watercolor painter to be ranked along with Thomas Schttte and Luc Tuymans.

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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 13 x 9.75 in. / 136 pgs / 54 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 134   

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