九月 27, 2021

Twenty works on paper by Raimund Girke dating from 1958 to 2001 have entered the collection of the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) as the result of a generous donation. The SKD comprises the museums and institutes of the German state of Saxony in the capital of Dresden, including the Galerie Neue Meister.

Girke’s works will become part of SKD’s Kupferstich-Kabinett (Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs). The works on paper join three important works by Girke that are already part of the museum’s significant collection of modern and contemporary painting: aufsteigend from 1958, Farbstrom from 1992, and impulsiv from 1993. The twenty works comprise a representative five-decade survey of the artist’s oeuvre and were donated by the artist’s widow, Karin Girke.

In addition, one work by Gerhard Richter was donated to the Gerhard Richter Archive: 'Umgeschlagenes Blatt (70-4)', which Raimund Girke acquired in 1966 at the galerie h, run by August Haseke. It belongs to a group of fourteen variations of painted, folded sheet corners, which were created in 1965 and 1966.

Girke exhibited in this gallery in January-February 1966 – historical photos of this presentation were recently discovered and will soon appear in the monograph publication Raimund Girke. Between White. The catalogue for that 1966 exhibition, 'gh 3', is currently on display in the archive presentation of the exhibition 'Nothingtoseeness' at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, which includes two works by Girke (Collection Kolumba; and private collection, long-term loan Neues Museum Weimar). The exhibition that followed Girke's in 1966 was that of Richter and Sigmar Polke, when the catalogue 'gh 4' was published.