Andy Warhol
The Last Supper
Artwork by Andy Warhol. Contributions by Corinna Thierolf, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann.






The Last Supper
Artwork by Andy Warhol. Contributions by Corinna Thierolf, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann.
Between 1937 and 1947, while he was in exile in Amsterdam, the German-born painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) made approximately a third of the work he would create in his lifetime. When he moved on, it was to accept an appointment as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Before that peacetime respite, he countered Europe's threatening instability with intense concentration. Max Beckmann in Amsterdam opens with the last work he completed in Germany, a triptych titled Versuchung ( Temptation ), and dedicates the balance of its pages to the paintings and drawings from his years in Holland. These widely varied responses to his immediate historical and biographical situation show horror of developments in Nazi Germany and constant physical and mental tension created by his wartime surroundings. As a body of work, Beckmann's Amsterdam portfolio is not only of great importance in understanding his motivations and methods, and in itself a record of the most productive phase in his life, but also a critical examination of a crucial moment in twentieth-century history.
Erstmals sind die wesentlichen Aspekte des Werks von Annette Lucks in einer Publikation vereint. Dabei geht es vor allem um das Agieren in einem Geflecht zwischen Zeichnung, Radierung, Malerei und Wort. Autobiografische Bezüge der 1952 als Flüchtlingskind geborenen Künstlerin wie historische Zusammenhänge spielen dabei eine Rolle. Assoziativ verarbeitet Lucks Gedankengut, Inspiration, Erinnerungsbilder zu mehrschichtigen Kompositionen. „So wachsen verzweigte Räume, darin zu wohnen” (Annette Lucks). Das eigene Erleben, Gelesenes, gesammelte Eindrücke und Ideen, philosophische Überlegungen und Natur bieten eine unerschöpfliche Quelle für die collageartig angelegten Werke. Sie formen in sich und im Ganzen ein dichtes Gewebe um die bildnerische „Textur“ - und lassen den Betrachter in eine große Erzählung eintauchen.