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Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch

English

By (author): Raphael Koenig Robert Wiesenberger

The first monographic publication in English on German Expressionist artist and architect Paul Goesch, who long struggled withand was persecuted and ultimately murdered forhis schizophrenia

Paul Goesch (18851940) produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany. An artist and architect, he made both fanciful figurative drawings and visionary architectural designs. The latter, from the extensive holdings of the Centre for Canadian Architecture in Montreal, are the focus of this publication, the first in English dedicated to Goesch.
 
Amid the aftermath of First World War, a generation of young architects sketched their visions for utopia. Goesch stands out among them for his formal range, his kaleidoscopic color sense, and his playful and pluralistic embrace of architectural history, as well as for his long struggles with schizophrenia, a condition for which he was institutionalized and ultimately murdered by the Nazis.
 
This publication highlights the decorative portals and archways that predominate in Goeschs work. These represent the artists metaphysical passages, as a spiritualist steeped in diverse religious and esoteric beliefs, and his altered psychological states. They also suggest Goeschs liminal status between art and architecture, sanity and madness, the trained insider and the institutionalized outsider. Celebrated in his time and since forgotten, Goesch is presented here in the context of period discussions on art, architecture, and mental health.

Distributed for the Clark Art institute  

Exhibition Schedule:

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
(March 18June 11, 2023) See more
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  • Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300269697

About Raphael KoenigRobert Wiesenberger

Robert Wiesenberger is curator of contemporary projects at the Clark Art Institute and lecturer in the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art in Williamstown MA. Raphael Koenig is visiting assistant professor (ATER) in Comparative Literature at the University of Toulouse II and associate researcher at the University of Toulouse IIs Literature Languages and Visual Arts Research Unit.

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