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Friedrich Karl GOTSCH: The Second Expressionist Generation

Past exhibition
16 September 2011 - 18 February 2012
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Friedrich Karl GOTSCH, The Second Expressionist Generation

The German artist -  Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) -  has been recognized since the 1950s by his compatriots and in Switzerland but still remain largely unknown. As a result, AV Modern & Contemporary offers one of the largest retrospectives ever devoted to the artist presenting woodcuts from the 1920s, oil paintings from the 1920s to the 1960s and a series of works on paper. Despite he was strongly influenced by Die Brücke and Kokoshka, he quickly acquired a personal plastic vocabulary. During a long stay in Paris between 1926 and 1927, Gotsch discovered Cubism which gave him a taste for geometric construction. Even though in the fifties and sixties, Gotsch tried different approaches, while always remaining faithful to himself: a born expressionist with a powerful instinct and an immediate and intrinsic pictoriality. He sometimes accentuated a certain primitivism close to the CoBrA movement.

Works
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Publications
  • Friedrich Karl Gotsch.

    Friedrich Karl Gotsch.

    The Second Expressionist Generation Essays by Marion Leuba, RĂ©gine Bonnefoit, Chantal Bartolini & Sofia Komarova, 2011
    Hardcover 224 pages
    Publisher: 5 Continents
    ISBN: 978-88-7439-613-9
    Dimensions: 26.5 x 28.5 cm
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