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A (Limited edition, Bilingual)
Franz Erhard Walther
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This limited edition book is ideal for enthusiasts of conceptual art, typography aficionados, and collectors interested in the intersections of visual arts and personal narrative. Scholars of post-war German art and design will also find this bilingual edition invaluable.
Conceived and designed by Walther, A is an artist's book in which a letter (derived from his Work Sets series) faces a scene from the artist's life between 1954 and 1973, such as an encounter with Jsrg Immendorff or his first show at MoMA.MoMA.
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In 1958, at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, Franz Erhard Walther devised a typographical font without any diagonals. In this artist's book, he uses so-called Work Sets to form a letter on each page, facing a scene from his life between 1954 to 1973 on the opposite page—an encounter with Reiner Ruthenbeck and Jörg Immendorff, for example, or his first show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Paging through, four sequential Work Sets make an appearance, including "The Body Draws" and "Sculptural Memory". On the left side, a hand-drawn letter in a mutable yellow, and on the right, a drawing of a recollection originating in his photographic memory. This book, conceived and designed by the artist himself, is itself a work of art.
Limited edition of 750 copies. Bilingual: German and English.
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ISBN: 9783775746038
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 August 2020
Country: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Illustration: 214 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 320.0mm
Weight: 1560g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER (*1939) first studied at the Werkkunstschule (School of Applied Arts) in Offenbach am Main, and then later attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy), where he and fellow students Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke studied under Karl Otto Götz. Walther lived in New York City between 1967 and 1971. In 1969/70 he exhib-ited together with Dan Flavin and Robert Morris the famous first work set at the Museum of Modern Art.
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