Heinz Hajek-Halke, Der Alchimist

Der Alchimist

Heinz Hajek-Halke

Publisher
Steidl
Year
2012
ISBN
978-3-86930-528-8
Specifications
Clothbound
26 x 33 cm
176 pages
German

This book is dedicated to the light graphics from the late work of Hajek-Halke. It shows him as an idiosyncratic designer in the context of abstract art after the Second World War, as a representative of Informel and the École de Paris. The first of these works were made on an old animation stand for animated films, without a photographic original and thus without real images. The abstraction of this way of working would remain decisive for the rest of his oeuvre, which spanned a good two more decades: even where visible reality plays into the images, the construction is abstract, often determined by chance.

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