Konzentrische Kreise
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 27.8 x 40.5 cm (10 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.) sheet: 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 15 15/16 in.) mount: 30.8 x 40.8 cm (12 1/8 x 16 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection
Accession Number
2009.131.51
Art Historical Context
Wolfgang Tillmans' *Konzentrische Kreise* (1999), "Concentric Circles" German, is a striking chromogenic print on view in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Modern Prints and Drawings. This intimate work, with an image size of 27.8 x 40.5 cm, captures hypnotic, radiating patterns that evoke ripples in water or cosmic orbits, inviting viewers to lose themselves in pure form and color. Tillmans, a German-born artist based in London, rose to prominence in the 1990s for his boundary-pushing photography that blends the documentary with the abstract. A winner of the 2000 Turner Prize, he o...
About the Artist
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans, born on 16 August 1968 in Remscheid, West Germany, developed an early fascination with photography through visits to museums in Düsseldorf and Cologne, where he encountered the photo-based works of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. A 1983 exchange student trip to England introduced him to British youth culture, inspiring his later focus on club...