Rodin - Beuys - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3937572341 ISBN 13: 9783937572345

Publisher: Richter Verlag, 2005

Synopsis

Next to Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Auguste Rodin was among the sculptors that Joseph Beuys, up to his death in 1986, most highly prized. Beuys became aware of the great sculptor as early as 1950 when he read the monograph by Rainer Maria Rilke on Rodin's work, which provided him with crucial aesthetic impulses. Beuys' early drawings show thematic and conceptual connections to Rodin's watercolors and drawings. For instance, both artists refer back to ancient mythology, e.g., in their female figures, which they paint on paper in coats of glaze. But also the lines of tradition that Auguste Rodin passed on by way of Wilhelm Lehmbruck were taken up by Beuys, such as his interest in the artistic possibilities of the torso.
The complex relation to the work of Auguste Rodin can be followed in the book's comprehensive section showing works by Rodin, Lehmbruck and Beuys.

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Synopsis

From 1947 - 1964 Joseph Beuys produced a large number of works on paper that echo the late drawings and watercolours of Auguste Rodin and the sculptural work of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Although Beuys' sculptural work is very different from these artists, he took up themes that both Rodin and Lehmbruck used including the idea of the torso as an autonomous, enclosed form and the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability. By using the fragment, Rodin had attempted to link his own work with that of the ancients. Beuys followed Rodin's example and the work of Lehmbruck and with the introduction of political and social elements expanded the vocabulary of sculpture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Richter Verlag
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3937572341
• ISBN 13: 9783937572345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280