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The Week in Germany: Culture December 8, 2006 German Art Roundup - London, New York, San Francisco An overview of art news: An abstract painter is honored in London as exhibitions abound from coast to coast in the US. Painter wins Turner Prize in London
German-born abstract artist Tomma Abts won Britain's Turner Prize on Monday. Selected from a shortlist that included a video artist, sculptor and installation artists, she was the first female painter to receive the prestigious award. Yoko Ono presented the artist with a £25,000 ($49,354) cash prize at a ceremony at the Tate Britain on Monday night. Abts, 39, was born in the northern German city of Kiel, studied art in Berlin and has lived in London for the past 12 years. Her paintings always measure 48 x 38 centimeters (19 x 15 inches) and are done in acrylic and oil.
"Abts' densely worked canvases take shape through a gradual process of layering and bear the visible traces of their making. The jury admired the rigor and consistency of Abts' painting, in which compelling images reveal their complexity slowly over time," the museum says in a statement. She was shortlisted for solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland and the greengrassi gallery in London. Abts is the first painter in eight years to win the prize. Awarded since
1984, it honors British artists under 50. Last year's winner was British
artist Simon Starling, while past winners include Anish Kapoor and Damien
Hirst. (TWIG, dpa) Links:
Anselm Kiefer retrospective in San Francisco Meanwhile the "Heaven and Earth" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco spans the oeuvre of German artist Anselm Kiefer from 1969 to the present. Kiefer is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists of our time. The exhibition, which runs through January 21, 2007, features more than 40 paintings, sculptures, books and works on paper. "Using symbolically potent materials such as clay, lead, ash, and gold leaf to masterful effect, Kiefer embraces a complex array of subjects, including alchemy, mythology and Jewish mysticism," the museum states on its website. Organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas, this traveling exhibition - previously on display in Washington - is the first major show of Kiefer's works in the United States in nearly 30 years. Links:
Glitter and Doom at the Met in New York An unprecedented flowering of the arts marked Weimar Republic Germany (1919-1933), which is revisted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a show focusing on portraiture of the 1920s. "Disillusioned by the cataclysm of World War I, the most vital German artists moved towards what became known as a Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular, a branch known as Verism. Looking soberly, cynically, and even ferociously at their fellow citizens, these artists found their true métier in portraiture," the museum states on its website. This exhibition, which runs through February 19, 2007, features gripping portraits by 10 renowned artists: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Ludwig Meidner, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz and Gert H. Wollheim. Links:
Paul Klee Enthralls at MoMA, in San Francisco Meanwhile works by the often whimsical and widely beloved Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee are now on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Links:
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