Catalog Raisonné Ruth Baumgarte - Volume II

The second volume of the catalogue raisonné focuses on Ruth Baumgarte’s independent artistic work. The catalog presents all paintings, watercolors, and drawings with illustrations. Insightful analyses of sixty works provide an in-depth look at significant art-historical contexts of their genesis. They span the arc from the artist’s early years as a draftswoman in the 1940s to her monumental paintings and drawings of the Africa cycle in her late work from 1984 to 2011. Upon closer examination, the scenic motifs and high-contrast color compositions, as well as the complexity of the pictorial spaces Baumgarte constructs, provide insight into a deeper level of the real world that is both fascinating and unfathomable.