RAIMUND GIRKE AT KUPFERSTICH-KABINETT, DRESDEN, GERMANY
GESPANNTE RUHE. RAIMUND GIRKE. WERKE AUF PAPIER 1957 - 2001, 8 OCT 2022 - 22 JAN 2023
A selection of 50 works on paper present a journey through Raimund Girke's (1930 - 2002) creative periods from his beginnings until shortly before his death. The German painter was a decisive pioneer of analytical painting and one of the radical innovators of German painting after 1960.
Raimund Girke, Ohne Titel, 1988 © Raimund Girke. Courtesy of the Estate of Raimund Girke and Kupfertisch-Kabinett
On paper, Girke is highly sensitive. Evenly monochrome watercolours in grey tones, which completely impregnate the sheet, or line-like structures, some of which are also made in pasty oil paint transfer the painter’s meditative concentration to the viewer.