Helmut Sturm: Subverting the Real

Hirmer

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SKU:
9783777434964
Author:
Pia Dornacher and Lisa Felicitas Mattheis
Publisher:
Hirmer
Publication date:
2020-10-22
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Helmut Sturmª¡s paintings radiate powerful colours and forms, yet are simultaneously both lyrically tender and poetical. He developed his individual pictorial language in a study of Cubism and Art Informelas well as artists like Max Beckmann, Asger Jorn and Willem de Kooning. The publication pays tribute to one of the most important witnesses of abstract-expressive painting in Germany.

Helmut Sturm (1932ª¤2008) was the initiator of the SPUR artistsª¡group (1957ª¤1965) and was at one time closely associated with the Situationist International movement. From 1985 he taught at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Munich as the successor to Gû§nter Fruhtrunk.Characteristic of his painting is the free association of representational and abstractelements, the energy of disorder and the delight in chance. This multi-faceted volume shows Sturmª¡s impressive and diverse creative works from 1957ª¤2007.