Elsy Lahner

The wall was his passion. If we look at urban walls with the eyes of Burhan Dogancay, a completely different world opens up: half-ripped posters on rough brickwork, covered in graffiti, scribblings, messages, signs, stickers. From this rich stock of structures, signs and symbols, the artist created his wall fragments, his Urban Walls. Dogancay (1929-2013) was born in Istanbul and...

Hermann Nitsch produced his first "poured" paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the substance of the paint, which he investigates from one Painting Action to the next. This catalogue illustrates the development of his painterly works from the early 1960s to the present day. The main focus of the content lies...