PETER ROYEN
Editor: Nils Dubbick & Dierk Dierking
Language: German | English
Format: 22 × 27 cm
Features: 128 pages, numerous color images and b/w images, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95476-496-9
Price: 40 CHF plus postage
QUIET, LYRICAL, SOFTLY BREATHING PICTURES
Peter Royen (b. Amsterdam, 1923; d. Düsseldorf, 2013) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After graduating from Otto Pankok’s master class, he made a name for himself in the Düsseldorf arts scene, initiated the creation of a municipal advisory panel on art, and became an important figure in the Rhineland’s art world.
In his works, Royen modulates paint so that it suggests spatial depth, transparency, flat expanse, or volatile substance. The flows of color in the almost monochrome paintings, with white the dominant tone, are defined by brief and consistent impulses and directions: the color fields. Wielding a brush or palette knife, the artist patiently molds the surface in an infinite continuous movement. Planes emerge and sink back; fissures that have burst open are grinded off to uncover the ground and lend it structure.
The monograph takes stock of Royen’s creative career, which culminated in his receiving the Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to cultural policy and the Art Prize of the Artists of Düsseldorf, and is released on occasion of the centennial of his birth. With excerpts from conversations about Peter Royen compiled by Katharina Oesterreicher and contributions by Jürgen Harten, Michael Kortländer, Robert Rademacher, and Werner Schmalenbach.
In his works, Royen modulates paint so that it suggests spatial depth, transparency, flat expanse, or volatile substance. The flows of color in the almost monochrome paintings, with white the dominant tone, are defined by brief and consistent impulses and directions: the color fields. Wielding a brush or palette knife, the artist patiently molds the surface in an infinite continuous movement. Planes emerge and sink back; fissures that have burst open are grinded off to uncover the ground and lend it structure.
The monograph takes stock of Royen’s creative career, which culminated in his receiving the Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to cultural policy and the Art Prize of the Artists of Düsseldorf, and is released on occasion of the centennial of his birth. With excerpts from conversations about Peter Royen compiled by Katharina Oesterreicher and contributions by Jürgen Harten, Michael Kortländer, Robert Rademacher, and Werner Schmalenbach.
PETER ROYEN
Editor: Nils Dubbick & Dierk Dierking
Language: German | English
Format: 22 × 27 cm
Features: 128 pages, numerous color images and b/w images, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95476-496-9
Price: 40 CHF plus postage
QUIET, LYRICAL, SOFTLY BREATHING PICTURES
Peter Royen (b. Amsterdam, 1923; d. Düsseldorf, 2013) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After graduating from Otto Pankok’s master class, he made a name for himself in the Düsseldorf arts scene, initiated the creation of a municipal advisory panel on art, and became an important figure in the Rhineland’s art world.
In his works, Royen modulates paint so that it suggests spatial depth, transparency, flat expanse, or volatile substance. The flows of color in the almost monochrome paintings, with white the dominant tone, are defined by brief and consistent impulses and directions: the color fields. Wielding a brush or palette knife, the artist patiently molds the surface in an infinite continuous movement. Planes emerge and sink back; fissures that have burst open are grinded off to uncover the ground and lend it structure.
The monograph takes stock of Royen’s creative career, which culminated in his receiving the Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to cultural policy and the Art Prize of the Artists of Düsseldorf, and is released on occasion of the centennial of his birth. With excerpts from conversations about Peter Royen compiled by Katharina Oesterreicher and contributions by Jürgen Harten, Michael Kortländer, Robert Rademacher, and Werner Schmalenbach.
In his works, Royen modulates paint so that it suggests spatial depth, transparency, flat expanse, or volatile substance. The flows of color in the almost monochrome paintings, with white the dominant tone, are defined by brief and consistent impulses and directions: the color fields. Wielding a brush or palette knife, the artist patiently molds the surface in an infinite continuous movement. Planes emerge and sink back; fissures that have burst open are grinded off to uncover the ground and lend it structure.
The monograph takes stock of Royen’s creative career, which culminated in his receiving the Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to cultural policy and the Art Prize of the Artists of Düsseldorf, and is released on occasion of the centennial of his birth. With excerpts from conversations about Peter Royen compiled by Katharina Oesterreicher and contributions by Jürgen Harten, Michael Kortländer, Robert Rademacher, and Werner Schmalenbach.
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