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Give Me the Now: An Autobiography
Rudolf Zwirner, "the man who invented the art market," as coined in Der Spiegel, reflects on more than sixty years in the art business in his authoritative autobiography. "Americans now see Germany as a natural breeding ground for mighty gallerists and collectors, but Rudolf Zwirner's fascinating new memoir walks us through the decades it took to rebuild an art world shattered by World War II. In this dealer's charming telling, however, the work involved sounds more like play than labor." --Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol An art dealer of the ages, Rudolf Zwirner, father of the esteemed gallerist David Zwirner, reached many milestones in his career. From cofounding Art Cologne, the first fair for contemporary art, in 1967, to showing works by Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol, Zwirner transformed the contemporary art scene in Cologne. Born in 1933, he presented more than three hundred exhibitions from the early 1960s to 1992. In his autobiography, Zwirner reveals stories of artists, his gallery, and his most important collector, Peter Ludwig, whose collection forms the cornerstone of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. First published in 2019 in German, and translated and adapted here for the first time in English, the book explores the most significant moments of Zwirner's career and the fast-changing postwar art world. Also included in this edition is a new foreword by Lucas Zwirner, Rudolf's grandson, who reflects on his grandfather's role in bringing us to the global art landscape we find ourselves in now.
Book Details
- Publisher: David Zwirner Books
- Publish Date: Jan 26th, 2021
- Pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.20in - 0.93lb
- EAN: 9781644230558
- Categories: • Artists, Architects, Photographers• Business Aspects• History - Contemporary (1945- )
About the Author
Goodrow, Gerard A.: - Ge´rard A. Goodrow is a curator, an author, and a translator based in Cologne. He studied cultural anthropology and art history at Rutgers University, New Jersey; modern and contemporary art history at the City University of New York; and art history, German philology, and English literature at the University of Cologne. Goodrow immigrated to Germany in 1987. He has held positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Christie's, London; and Art Cologne and Cologne Fine Art. Over the past thirty years, he has curated more than one hundred contemporary art and photography exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He is the author of numerous texts and publications, including Crossing China: The Land of the Rising Art Scene (2012) and Passages: Indian Art Today (2014), and has taught and lectured extensively on international modern and contempo- rary art, photography, and the global art market.
Zwirner, Rudolf: - Rudolf Zwirner, born 1933, is an art dealer based in Cologne. He started his gallery in the 1960s and grew to show works by icons including Sigmar Polke, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and others. He is the father of the gallerist David Zwirner.
Kuhn, Nicola: - Nicola Kuhn is an art critic and a features editor of Tagesspiegel. She studied art history and modern history and has taught at the Free University and the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2013, she was awarded the Critics' Prize from the hbs Cultural Foundation, Hannover. In 2016, she coauthored the biography Hitler's Kunsthandler: Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1895-1956. She became acquainted with Galerie Zwirner while studying in Cologne and met Rudolf Zwirner in her role as a journalist in Berlin.
Zwirner, Lucas: - Lucas Zwirner is Head of Content at David Zwirner where he oversees all aspects of gallery publishing through books, web, film, and podcasts. In addition to spearheading the ekphrasis series, short texts on visual culture by artists and writers rarely available in English, and the award-winning podcast Dialogues, Lucas also helps lead select digital initiatives, including Platform, a standalone company founded in 2021. He is also a writer and translator, whose work has appeared in The Drift, The Paris Review, and An Elias Canetti Reader, edited by Josh Cohen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy.
Praise for this book
"Americans now see Germany as a natural breeding ground for mighty gallerists and collectors, but Rudolf Zwirner's fascinating new memoir walks us through the decades it took to rebuild an art world shattered by World War II. In this dealer's charming telling, however, the work involved sounds more like play than labor."--Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol
"[Zwirner] staged stunts including a seven-minute exhibition--as long as it took to hard-boil an egg--of paintings by the Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri."--James Tarmy "Bloomberg"
"Similarly, much of Zwirner's autobiography is closer to a warning than a victory lap. He describes today's art market as "turbo.""--James Tarmy "Bloomberg"
"Rudolf Zwirner's story impacted the art world like few others in the past century"-- "Mutual Art"