His mostly precisely composed, large-format paintings, with deserted spaces as their main motif, made Ben Willikens (*1939) famous in the second half of the 1970s. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue present nearly 50 works created between 1971 and 2021 and thus span the artist’s entire oeuvre. Three groups of works form the central pillars: the Anstaltsbilder of the 1970, in whose motifs Willikens processes a dark chapter in his life, and the series ORTE (PLACES) And ORTE 2 (PLACES 2), which deal with Willikens’s examination of the architecture of the National Socialist period. There are also various works from the series Räume der Moderne (Spaces of Modernity). Text in English and German.

This volume, published on occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, provides a comprehensive history of this institution, which is connected with such names as Wilhelm Leibl, Wassily Kandinsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Guenther Baselitz, but did also experience periods of lesser significance. A catalogue provides an overview of the academy's collections in color photographs. German text.