September 20, 2003 through April 9, 2006
Busch-Reisinger Museum (more about the Busch-Reisinger Museum)

Raimond Girke (1930 - 2002). Structures, 1959. Synthetic resin on canvas, 120 x 181.4 cm. Copyright 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Around 1960, many artists in Germany sought alternatives to the gestural abstraction that had become exhausted by the late 1950s. In this installation, two generations of postwar artists employ a range of innovative and unconventional media and techniques to explore texture, materials, and other fundamental characteristics of art making in their largely monochrome paintings and sculptures.

Organized by Laura Muir, Charles C. Cunningham, Sr., Assistant Curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum.