Hans-Hendrik Grimmling: Paintings from 1978 to 2024
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Author: Annegret Laabs
Hans-Hendrik Grimmling is one of the most important painters of his generation in Germany, an initiator of the legendary First Leipzig Autumn Salon in 1984, regarded as a milestone exhibition in non-conformist GDR art. For more than 40 years, he has been painting at the fringes of abstraction. Grimmling visualises his prime concern: the drama, the struggle, and the tragedy of human existence. This publication is the first monographic work to present Grimmling’s complete oeuvre.Grimmling is preoccupied with the experience of letting go, detaching himself from the figurative and the narrative, from East German identity, thus breaking away from predetermined physical forms. Large areas, wide swaths and interlinked bands of black stretch across the canvas. The colour black prevails, becoming intoxicating and, for two decades now, the painter’s only visual content.
ISBN 9783422802964. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 132 pages. 50 colour ills. 28.5 x 24 cm.
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Hans-Hendrik Grimmling is one of the most important painters of his generation in Germany, an initiator of the legendary First Leipzig Autumn Salon in 1984, regarded as a milestone exhibition in non-conformist GDR art. For more than 40 years, he has been painting at the fringes of abstraction. Grimmling visualises his prime concern: the drama, the struggle, and the tragedy of human existence. This publication is the first monographic work to present Grimmling’s complete oeuvre.Grimmling is preoccupied with the experience of letting go, detaching himself from the figurative and the narrative, from East German identity, thus breaking away from predetermined physical forms. Large areas, wide swaths and interlinked bands of black stretch across the canvas. The colour black prevails, becoming intoxicating and, for two decades now, the painter’s only visual content.
ISBN 9783422802964. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 132 pages. 50 colour ills. 28.5 x 24 cm.
available