Alex Katz (*1927 in Brooklyn) is one of the foremost representatives of American painting in the international art world. In New York in the 1950s, his large-format, stencil-like portraits and landscapes set a striking counterpoint to Abstract Expressionism. Katz developed a signature pictorial language early on, characterized by outlined forms, clear colors and flatness. His images make a controlled, matter-of-fact impression, and yet their cropped character and emptiness evoke rich associations. Influenced by the imagery of the cinema, advertising and fashion, Katz translates what he sees into paintings that isolate individual motifs and elevate them to the status of ambiguous symbols. The catalog presents for the first time an overview of the artist's nude paintings from three decades.

Editor: Kathrin Meyer, Veit Görner, kestnergesellschaft Hannover
Authors: Kathrin Meyer, Morgan Falconer, Veit Görner

Hardcover
16,9 x 23,7 cm
104 pages
58 color and 12 b/w ills.
German/English
available
ISBN 978-3-86828-256-6
39 Euro
2011