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Günther FörgWW-1988-M069182

1988·Bronze·35 1/2 x 23 3/8 x 2 1/4" (90.2 x 59.4 x 5.7 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1988
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 23 3/8 x 2 1/4" (90.2 x 59.4 x 5.7 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Günther Förg

Artist

Günther Förg

Printmaking

Günther Förg was a German painter and photographer who worked across abstraction, figuration, and architectural documentation. His practice encompassed large-scale gestural paintings, often layered with photographic imagery and text, alongside systematic photographic surveys of modernist buildings and urban structures. Active from the 1980s onward, Förg developed a distinctive approach that treated painting and photography as interconnected modes of inquiry rather than separate disciplines. His work oscillated between intimate, mark-based abstraction and coolly observational architectural studies, interrogating the relationships between gesture, representation, and documentary precision.

Fuessen, Germany

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