The oeuvre of Gotthard Graubner (born 1930 in Vogtland) is considered one of the most out-there positions of a painting style founded primarily on the expressive ­pos­sibilities of color. All levels of his paintings – such as form, space, movement and light – is owed to the way he organizes color and elevates it to an exclusive pictorial component.
The paintings reproduced in this publication are set against a series of selected reproductions from Josef Albers’ cycle, Homage of the Square, an artist who, with ­similar emphasis, understood his painting to be a fascinating dialogue between colors. In this juxtaposition, the faith of the two painters in the special artistic ­language of color becomes manifest, while at the same time the quite different paths they took are made clear, a reflection of their ­different historical starting points. Thus Gotthard Graubner. Gespräch mit Josef Albers is also a contribution to the history of color in 20th century painting.