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"Gotthard Graubner's understanding of colour is embedded in his own conception of the artistic picture. This does not apply solely to images painted in colours, but can equally find expression in drawing, in sculpture, and in photography. What is at issue here is a particular intensification of the sensuous appearance of the image, which neither simply replicates the world as we know it, nor offers beguilingly suggestive pieces of illusionism. Graubner's work is focused on the basis of the image, on discovering its real and productive potential. It generates meaning, finds a pictorial language which derives solely from a special expressive potential within itself which is independent of the otherwise global dominance of the word. The viewer is able to respond to images conceived in this pointed fashion with a mode of seeing that is entirely active, that does not simply register facts but responds to them, enabling the viewer to enter into creative communication with the artist’s work." Heinz Liesbrock, excerpted from Embodying Colour in "Gotthard Graubner: Painting.
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst. Edited by Eva Kraus. Text by Jürgen Schilling.
German abstractionist Gotthard Graubner (1930–2013) is celebrated for his expressionistic development of Color Field painting. Chroma features the Neues Museum Nürnberg’s impressive array of his work from its Böckmann Collection, spanning four decades.
