Books written by Klaus Ottmann

  • James Lee Byars: Leben, Liebe und Tod
    James Lee Byars: Leben, Liebe und Tod

    In 1956, James Lee Byars rented a sod farm for a midnight, full moon exhibition of his abstract figure sculptures; guests viewed the work from sleds pulled over snow. In...

  • The Essential: Mark Rothko
    The Essential: Mark Rothko

    Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is generally considered the preeminent artist of the group of painters who reinvented American art and became known as the Abstract Expressionists.

  • Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet
    Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Parrish Art Museum.

  • Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective
    Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective

    Wolfgang Laib's breathtaking and quietly beautiful artwork draws on the ritual life he leads in and with nature and its processes of becoming and forgetting.

  • Yves Klein by Himself: His Life and Thought
    Yves Klein by Himself: His Life and Thought

    This book intermixes biographical fact with texts written by some of the many artists who have been inspired by this charismatic agitator for social change.

  • Yves Klein: Works and Writings
    Yves Klein: Works and Writings

    Son of Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, both painters,Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a brief career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. “For color!