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Prozession zweier Köpfe unter der Sonne,
1957 Öl auf Leinwand 165 x 203 cm Inv. Nr. 1133 [enlarge picture] View of the Exhibition Biography |
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| The Neue Galerie shows its holdings Parallel to the exhibitions at the Vienna Kunstforum and the Galerie Ulysses, the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz is showing an ad hoc presentation of its attractive holdings of works by the 81-year-old Dutch painter Karel Appel. Recently pronounced the "best painter in the world" by Rudi Fuchs, director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Appel looks back on a large oeuvre that he has continuously developed under his own power. His changes and work phases are ultimately based on a consistency, in which the vitality, even ecstasy, of artistic execution is conjoined with an outstanding capacity for improvisation. The main work owned by the Neue Galerie is the painting "Procession of Two Heads under the Sun" from 1957, a large format picture with a remarkable exhibition chronology, which was acquired by the Linz museum in 1994 with help from the Support Association under very favorable conditions. It is supplemented by a smaller, equally pastose painting from 1992, as well as a magnificent suite of color lithographs dated 1957, and a forceful, informal brush drawing from 1960. A small, but highly characteristic introduction to the work of an important painter, who is rightly at the center of public interest again. The presentation in the Neue Galerie der Stadt der Stadt Linz, where a major Karl Appel retrospective was shown in 1992, will be on display until October 5, 2002. |
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