Erika Gemar Költzsch, with additional contributions by Yule F. Heibel and Emilie Norris

1998. 205 pp., 170 illus., 31 color plates; 8 1/2 x 11 in.

ISBN 0-916724-98-0 Paper. $32.00.

In 1992, the German Art Dealers Association arranged a donation to the Busch-Reisinger Museum of over 200 postwar drawings and prints by German artists born before 1945. These works came not only from the dealers, but from the artists, their estates, and private collectors. The gift greatly enhanced the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection of German postwar drawings and prints. This volume celebrates that generous gift, and features all 72 artists, with entries that include portrait photographs of each and reproductions of their work. This catalogue also includes a select bibliography of publications in English. Divided into five sections, the catalogue considers key trends in German art during the decisive decades of that country’s cultural revitalization from the end of World War II up to the 1990s. There are sections on realism, the Informel (the German version of Abstract Expressionism), constructivism, art from the German Democratic Republic, and prints and drawings by sculptors.

According to Reinhold Heller, Department of History, University of Chicago, “With its wealth of varied information, this catalogue will certainly become a much needed, standard, and fundamental reference in the area of German post–World War II art, the work to which one will point students and scholars as the definite first step in their research.”

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