Helen Frankenthaler (Bilingual edition): Move and Make

Helen Frankenthaler’s (1928–2011) radical approach to paint and material creates images pulsating with colour. During the postwar period in the United States, she was a leading figure in abstract art. This volume brings together nearly fifty works, providing a comprehensive overview of the world’s largest private collection of Helen Frankenthaler’s works – on display at the recently opened Museum Reinhard Ernst in Wiesbaden. In Frankenthaler’s works, paint and canvas become one. The soak-stain technique she developed allows the paint to seep directly into unprimed fabric. The result is a pictorial effect like no other: colour spaces open up, flowing into one another, sometimes saturated, sometimes transparent. Above all, the pictures show an artist willing to take risks: by setting no limits to her artistic work, Frankenthaler was able to create liberated, large-scale paintings full of radiance. Her groundbreaking body of work remains highly relevant today.

• | Author: Douglas Dreishpoon, Reinhard and Sonja Ernst-Stiftung, Reinhard Ernst
• | Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
• | Publication Date: Jun 26, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9783777445380
• | ISBN-10: 377744538X