Main entry:

Wiesenberger, Robert, author.

Title & Author:

Portals : the visionary architecture of Paul Goesch / Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koenig.

Publication:

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2023]
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
©2023

Description:

103 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch presented at the Clark Art Institute from March 18 to June 11, 2023"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Further reading": page 102.
Passages: the work of Paul Goesch / Robert Wiesenberger -- Thresholds: the reception of Paul Goesch / Raphael Koenig.

Summary:

The first monographic publication in English on German Expressionist artist and architect Paul Goesch, whose extraordinary architectural fantasies were produced while he was institutionalized for schizophrenia. Artist and architect Paul Goesch (1885-1940) created one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany. His vibrant drawings teem with invented ornament and resemble little else made then or since. Goesch, who exhibited widely in avant-garde circles, did so while institutionalized for schizophrenia--a condition for which he was ultimately murdered by the Nazi regime. This monograph makes Goesch's extraordinary creations accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. It presents more than thirty examples of his drawings from the collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, as well as work by his peers in the Expressionist "Glass Chain" group. Goesch's subject matter is mainly arches, passageways, and portals, which are taken here as a metaphor for the artist's anthroposophic beliefs and altered states and his liminal status as both an insider and outsider, whom critics have never been able to categorize clearly. The authors discuss Goesch's production and reception and posit his enduring art historical significance.

ISBN:

9781935998570 (Clark Art Institute ; paperback)
1935998579 (Clark Art Institute ; paperback)
9780300269697 (Yale Unversity Press ; paperback)
0300269692 (Yale Unversity Press ; paperback)

Subject:

Goesch, Paul, 1885-1940 Exhibitions.
Goesch, Paul, 1885-1940
German expressionism 20th century Exhibitions.
Visionary architecture 20th century Exhibitions.
Drawing, German 20th century Exhibitions.
Arches in art 20th century Exhibitions.
Schizophrenia and the arts Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Visionary architecture History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture visionnaire Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture visionnaire 20e siècle Expositions.
Dessin allemand 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, Modern
Visionary architecture

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Koenig, Raphaël, author.
Goesch, Paul, 1885-1940. Works. Selections.
Meslay, Olivier, writer of foreword.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, issuing body, host institution.

Visionary architecture of Paul Goesch

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317565
Call No.: 317565
Copy: 1
Status: Available