Fassbender, Joseph
born 1903 in D - Köln, died 1974 in D - Köln
poster of the exhibition Sammlung Guggenheim New York
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln
1958 ( january 28 - march 30 )
original design
colour offset
84 cm x 60 cm
printer: Druckhaus Deutz
very slight creases at one border, generally in good condition
order no. 18070
The exhibition showed 75 works of the collection, for example Chagall, Cèzanne, Braque, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Klee, Malewitsch, Mondrian, Picasso and others. Hamburger Abendblatt: "Die Bilder geben einen Überblick über die grundlegende Wandlung der Malerei von Cezanne bis zur Gegenwart. Die Auswahl ist bisher in Den Haag, Stockholm, Helsinki und Rom gezeigt worden. Köln ist die einzige Stadt Deutschlands, in der die Guggenheim-Sammlung vorläufig zu sehen sein wird".
In the catalogue "Ausstellungen in Köln 1946-1966 - Eine Übersicht" is mentioned that the exhibition attracted about 30000 visitors, together with the exibition about Wassily Kandinsky the most successful exhibition in that year in Cologne.
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The catalogue titled the Guggenheim collection - perhaps concerning the future program - as a 'museum of non-objective painting'. The famous, by Frank Lloyd Wright designed building has been opened 1959.
Compare the exhibition poster of the collection Guggenheim in Paris April/June 1958, showing a motif by Picasso (Czwiklitzer dtv 141), order no.11741 !
Fassbender used the letters "gg" in this posters like the Swiss graphic artist Hans Hartmann for the signet of F.Gygi - designed in the year! The relationship to teh Swiss designers are probably.
Lit.:
The S.R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Ausst.-Kat. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln 1958, with a forword by Otto H. Förster
Ruby, Sigrid: "Have We An American Art?" Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Weimar 1999, p.356
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016, p.76 f.
