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Adolf Dietrich in His Time and Beyond
Katja Herlach (Ed.)
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Paperback. The first comprehensive monograph on Adolf Dietrich in English, examining his style which is regarded as being between naive and new objectivity. Editor(s): Herlach, Katja; Messmer, Dorothee. Num Pages: 208 pages, 263 colour, 23 b&w. BIC Classification: AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 230. .
Born as the youngest of a poor Swiss farming family's seven children, Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957) supplemented arduous farm work and various jobs in a textile mill, as a woodcutter, and railway worker, with art. Gaining increasing recognition in Germany and Switzerland, his participation in the exhibition Les maitres populaires de la realite in Paris, Zurich, and New York in 1937-38 marked his breakthrough internationally. Until today, Dietrich's work is regarded by some as a prime example of 20th-century naive painting, while other scholars place him closer to the post-expressionist movement of New Objectivity. For the first time in nearly ... Read more
Born as the youngest of a poor Swiss farming family's seven children, Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957) supplemented arduous farm work and various jobs in a textile mill, as a woodcutter, and railway worker, with art. Gaining increasing recognition in Germany and Switzerland, his participation in the exhibition Les maitres populaires de la realite in Paris, Zurich, and New York in 1937-38 marked his breakthrough internationally. Until today, Dietrich's work is regarded by some as a prime example of 20th-century naive painting, while other scholars place him closer to the post-expressionist movement of New Objectivity. For the first time in nearly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858814678
SKU
V9783858814678
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About Katja Herlach (Ed.)
Katja Herlach is a curator at the Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland. Since 2012, Dorothee Messmer has served as director of the Kunstmuseum Olten.
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