Norberto Gramaccini

Franz Gertsch – Silvia

Chronicle of a Painting

The chronicle describes and documents the nine-month painting process of the monumental portrait of "Silvia" (290 x 280 cm). It reveals the artist's orientations and motivations that underlie his obsessive painting. B/W photographs record the painting phases, colored details show the painting structure, and a color illustration presents the finished painting.

Author(s): Norberto Gramaccini

16,5 x 24 cm
160 pages, 46 illustrations
hardback
2000, 978-3-907078-19-8, English
Out of Print

Franz Gertsch

Franz Gertsch was born in 1930 in Mörigen, Bern, and lives and works in Rüschegg-Heubach, Switzerland. Gertsch has participated in several important international exhibitions over his career, perhaps most significantly in documenta 5 (1972), organized by Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann, and others, which centered upon artists considered by the curators to be "questioning reality." Gertsch’s work was also included in the 1978 and 1999 Venice Biennales. Gertsch has been the recipient of multiple grants and prizes, including a DAAD Grant, Berlin (1974–75), and a cultural award from the Bürgi-Willert-Stiftung (1998). The Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, Switzerland, is devoted to his work.