{"id":92,"count":14,"description":"G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg in memoriam\r\n\r\nDuring our regular conversations, G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg always enquired about the status of the publishing house. With sympathy and his characteristic humour, he commented on the receipt of new books and always made suggestions for publication, which he then often generously supported. The short history of Snoeck Verlag has been connected in a very special way with G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg and his work over the last 11 years. The photo book \"Moskau - Moscow\" was not only the first joint project, it was also the very first book in the publishing programme at the book fair in Frankfurt\/Main in 2002. The foundation stone for the publishing house was laid with this volume, created on the initiative of the publishing house, with the brittle but all the more expressive photographs of Moscow Constructivist architecture of the 1920s and 30s. After extensive preparations, the book of G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg's friends \"Laissez un Message\" followed in late autumn 2005 under the editorship of Reiner Speck on the occasion of his 50th birthday, which was celebrated on 7 December 2002. How tirelessly G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg has repeatedly encircled his work, the byways and highways, with books is shown by the publications that followed in quick succession: Spring 2006 \"Gazzetta dello Sport\", summer 2006 perhaps his most beautiful photo volume with a cross-section of his entire photographic oeuvre \"Kunsthalle Bremen - Fotografie\", autumn 2006 \"Watercolours\", spring 2007 \"Passage\" and finally \"Fields - Verges\" in summer 2007. In late autumn 2007, G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg had already set out to open a completely new chapter in his work: the dots, dabs - and in between sometimes paraphrases of older formal elements - known as tach\u00e9s by Max Wechsler, appearing in grids and disordered heaps and fields, soon covered countless canvases and sheets. He presented them in two major volumes, the canvases in \"Back and Forth\" in summer 2008 and a wax crayon series in \"Aller \/ Retour\" in spring 2009. The small-format \"Trilogy of Paws\" with G\u00fcnter Herburger in summer 2008 was another attempt to combine literature and art, following the collaboration with Arnold Stadler in 2006 for the volume \"Watercolours\". In the spring of 2013, while we were still compiling and going through the small retrospective volume for \"12 Lead Paintings\", which date from 1989, he was still making plans for new series of works and, of course, new books, undaunted and in his usual enthusiastic manner, for which one could only love him. The last exhibition we visited together was \"Piet Mondrian - Barnett Newman - Dan Flavin\" at the Kunstmuseum Basel on 25 October 2013. As always, G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg was well prepared and had already bought the catalogue beforehand, but he wanted to get rid of it quickly because he didn't like it. We went straight through the first room to Barnett Newman's works. We spent a long time looking at \"The Name 1\" from 1949 and \"Chartres\" from 1969, both of which literally blew us away with their presence, the first with its subtle omission in the thin central red stripe on a striped turquoise background, the second with its closed, hard and at the same time sublime form, that of a new cathedral. G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg died on his 61st birthday on 5 December 2013. Our work reminds us every day that we were connected to him in an extraordinary way.\r\n  \r\nAndreas Balze","link":"https:\/\/snoeck.de\/en\/product-category\/guenther-foerg\/","name":"G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg","slug":"guenther-foerg","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snoeck.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snoeck.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snoeck.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/snoeck.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}