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Andreas Schulze is a German artist from the Valley of the Rhine, and was a major protagonist of the new movements that appeared in the 1980s under the banner of Neue Malerei, or “new painting.” His style is expressive but nonetheless refined, and his work is thus considerably different from the work of his contemporaries in Berlin, whose works are far more transgressive and iconoclastic. This catalogue (co-produced by Kunstmuseum Luzern in collaboration with Drac & Frac in Nantes and the Munich Kunstverein) represents the works presented in the retrospective, embracing the period from 1980 to 1988, that in 1989 was held in all three museums. The critical texts include brief essays by Martin Kunz and Achille Bonito Oliva. The catalogue design is the work of the artist himself. Martin Kunz and Kunstmuseum Luzern were also to present a solo show of the work of Jiri Georg Dokoupil, as well as an overview of the movement of the Neue Wilden—the “New Fauves”—in Austria and Berlin, as documented in the catalogues Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Im Westen nichts Neues (Berlin) and Neue österreichische Malerei.

Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Luzern, January 27 - March 12, 1989 (Traveling exhibition: Munich, Clisson and Nantes). Texts: Achille Bonito Oliva, Zdenek Felix, Martin Kunz, Patrick Frey, Mario Toran, Esther Schipper, and a conversation between Wilfried Dickhoff and Andreas Schulze