Now!: Painting in Germany Today, Hardcover

Germany is considered by many to be the nation of "Painter Princes" thanks to the worldwide reputation of artists such as Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Neo Rauch, and Albert Oehlen. But is there a new generation of artists on the rise? To find out, Stephen Berg, Fr d ric Bu mann, and Alexander Klar visited numerous studios throughout Germany in order to find the most inventive and contemporary artists working today.

Now brings together their selection of fifty-three artists in their thirties and forties who are breaking artistic ground in their work. Showcasing the artwork of the next generation of young artists taking over the modern-day painting scene in Germany, this book presents two hundred illustrations that speak to the diversity of the current work. The artists come from varying backgrounds and were trained in schools in Berlin, Dresden, D sseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart, and their work has also been promoted in exhibitions across Bonn, Wiesbaden, Chemnitz and Hamburg. As a collection, Now is a bold statement proving that panel art is to be regarded as an important piece of art history in Germany.

Stephan Berg is director of Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany. Fr d ricBu mann is the general director of the Art Collections of Chemnitz. Alexander Klar is an art historian and director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany.