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Beginning in the 1950s, Judit Reigl (b. Kapuvá r, Hungary, 1923; d. Marcoussis, France, 2020) builds a singular creative oeuvre between abstraction and figuration, between Surrealism and gestural painting. After studying art in Budapest, Reigl flees Hungary in 1950; arriving in Paris, she is introduced to André Breton, who organizes her first exhibition in 1954. Under the influence of the é cole de Paris, she branches out into é criture automatique, then shifts toward free expression. Like her contemporaries Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler in New York, she lays out ever larger unprimed canvases on the floor and works them with a brush, her fingers, or other instruments. After 1966, bodily shapes emerge from her abstractions, and figures reappear in the pictures. On occasion of Reigl's centenary and the gift of three major works, the Neue Nationalgalerie mounts the artist's first solo exhibition at a museum in Germany. The book surveys the oeuvre of one of the most important protagonists of European art in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Klaus Biesenbach (born 1966 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German-American curator and museum director. He is the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie with Museum Berggruen and the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection and the Museum der Moderne in Berlin, which is still under construction. Previously, he was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Chief Curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City and director of the New York art gallery MoMA PS1 (Queens). Maike Steinkamp has been a curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie since 2018, specializing in German and international art and cultural policy since the 1930s.

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