Happy Birthday!: 20 Years of the Goetz Collection [Paperback]

Published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Goetz Collection, this beautifully illustrated book includes nearly one hundred full-color reproductions of the internationally renowned contemporary art collections finest works. Among the reproductions are celebrated classics, including ones from among the Goetzs impressive collection of works by Young British Artists and key figures from the Italian Arte Povera movement. But it also gathers many rarely seen pieces, spanning sculptures, paintings, watercolors, collages, new media, and installation art from the 1940s to the present.

A celebratory look back at one of Munichs largest and most important private collections of contemporary art,Happy Birthdaycomplements copious illustrations with an interview with the Goetzs founder Ingvild Goetz, an illustrated history of all of the collections exhibitions, and essays by leading art critics and artists, including Katharina Bitz, Cornelia Gockel, Jerry Gorovoy, Leo Lencs?s, Larissa Michelberger, Birgit Sonna, and Katharine Vossenkuh. Among the artists whose work is included are Shusaka Arakawa, M?ria Bartuszov?, Louise Bourgeois, Geta Bratescu, William Copley, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Neil Jenney, Anselm Kiefer, Yayoi Kusama, and George Segal.

Ingvild Goetzis the founder of the Goetz Collection and an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.Karsten L?ckemannis a curator at the Goetz Collection.