Flip Bool Collection November 5 - December 24, 2023 Opening 5 November, 16.00 hrs Emmy Andriesse Gerd Arntz Willi Baumeister Henny Cahn Walter Dexel Frantisek Kalivoda Jan Kamman Kepes Georg Willy Kessels Victor Koretzky El Lissitzky László Moholy-Nagy Enrico Prampolini Paul Renner Willem Sandberg Paul Schuitema Karel Teige Jan Tschichold Piet Zwart |
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Art Cologne November 16 - 19, 2023 artcologne.com |
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Gerd Arntz 2024 Ever the same prints and drawings 1950 - 1970 |
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Gerd Arntz Gerd Arntz (1900 - 1988) gained international fame for his political woodcuts and symbols for visual statistics. Although Arntz produced a few paintings around 1930, he otherwise worked exclusively as a graphic artist. He made his choice for this profession at an early age and then limited himself to two techniques within the graphic arts: the woodcut and the linoleum cut. This limitation gives his oeuvre a great deal of cohesion. After a short expressionist period, he soon created his own, unmistakable visual form. There was no room for intermediate tones or shading, nor for the spatial illusion suggested by the perspective. In his woodcuts, Arntz constructed a world in two dimensions that is systematically made up of alternating black and white, in lines and planes. In the 1920s and 1930s, Arntz's woodcuts analyze social contradictions; they want to teach, criticize and call for solidarity in the midst of revolt, repression and nationalism. |
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