Schermuly's mutable and original oeuvre led him out of an abstraction governed by visual rules and into the fascination of reality-inspired colour. The intensity of his gaze explored what the appearance of the world has to offer to a virtuoso colourist for a painting. He was interested not in recreation but in understanding the visible to develop colour phenomena suitable for painting. Profound knowledge of the history of the art of painting was for Schermuly a guarantee of his originality. The elaborately prepared and lavishly produced book presents an artist of rare distinction to the isms of the second half of the twentieth century.
Author Biography
Martin Mosebach is a novelist and winner of the 2007 Georg Buchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature. Brigitte Schermuly is the executor of the rights to the work of Peter Schermuly.
