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Painting in Germany Today

The editors visited numerous studios throughout Germany in order to select 53 artists from among the current generation of 30 to 40-year-olds who are currently breaking new ground in the painting of panel pictures. The publication and simultaneous exhibitions in Bonn, Wiesbaden and Chemnitz and subsequently in Hamburg demonstrate the diversity and quality of their work.

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Not only since the start of the Romantic era has painting been regarded as the leading artistic discipline in Germany. To this day, the nation of Painter Princes continues to promote the development of the art of painting and enjoys a worldwide reputation with artists like Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Neo Rauch and Albert Oehlen. Here we encounter a survey of young artists in particular from the surrounding of the academies in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. The next generation of important painters is presented with several works, opulent illustrations and statements by artists and experts from the contemporary painting scene in Germany.
Stephan Berg is curator and has been director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since April 2008. Frederic Bussmann is general director of the Art Collections of Chemnitz. Alexander Klar is director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. More than 50 young artists who are currently breaking new ground in painting

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Now! demonstrates that painting in Germany is alive and well, confident, masterful, even playful and inventive.

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