SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGS AND MONOGRAPHS

2013
Rudolf de Crignis New York 1985 – 2006. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2013.
Texts by Lawrence Rinder, Georg Imdahl, and Joseph Cunningham.

2009
Rudolf de Crignis: Grays and Blues. San Antonio: Lawrence Markey, 2009.
Text by Rudolf de Crignis.

2008
Rudolf de Crignis – Paintings 1992 to 2006. New York: Peter Blum, 2008.
Text by Linda Norden.

2007
Rudolf de Crignis: In Memoriam. Freiburg, Germany: Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, 2007.
Texts by Julia Galandi Pascual, Jens Peter Koerver, Rudolf de Crignis, Stefan Gronert, Susanne Bieri,
Joseph Marioni, Stephan Baumkötter, Per Gjorstrup, Ingo Meller, Reinhard Ermen, Marcia Hafif,
Michael Toenges, August Hoviele, John Zinsser, Helga and Paul Ege; CD by Roland Dahinden.

2006
Rudolf de Crignis: Surface. Bern: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Graphische Sammlung, 2006.
Texts by Marie-Christine Doffey, Susanne Bieri, Robert Ryman, Suzan Frecon, Stefan Gronert,
Gabrielle Boller, and Jens Peter Koerver.

2003
Rudolf de Crignis: 5 Paintings = 1 Work. Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2003.
Texts by Dieter Ronte and Jens Peter Koerver in English and German.

1999
Rudolf de Crignis, Friederike van Duiven, Christiane Rasch. Lüdenscheid, Germany: Kulturderzenat 1999.
Text by Jens Peter Koerver.

1998
Rudolf de Crignis: One Painting. Aalst, Belgium: Galerij S65, 1998.
Text by Sabine Müller in English and German.

1997
Rudolf de Crignis: Eight Paintings, Twenty-one Drawings, and a Table. New York: Stark Gallery, 1997.
Text by Gregory Volk in English and German.

1996
La Lumière de la peinture / The Light of Painting. Demigny, France: Centre d'art contemporain
de Demigny, 1996.
Text by Christian Besson.

1995
Rudolf de Crignis. Winterthur: Kunsthalle Winterthur, 1995.
Text by Beat Wismer in English and German.

1991
Rudolf de Crignis. Zürich: Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, 1991.
Texts by Margit Weinberg Staber and Roman Hollenstein.

GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGS AND BOOKS

2021
Seeing Differently—The Phillips Collects for a New Century. Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection in
association with GILES, 2021.
Edited by Elsa Smithgall, with texts by Dani Levinas and Dorothy Kosinski.

2019
A Day's Work. Soest, Germany: Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, 2019.
Concept and editing by Niklas von Bartha, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Viveka Graulich, Hanna Milner, and Juliane Rogge.

2018
Painting Black. Soest, Germany: Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, 2018.
Concept and editing by Ivo Ringe, Juliane Rogge, and Miriam Schroth.

2015
Das Dreieck der Liebe. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 2015.
Concept and editing by Michael Hiltbrunner.

2015
Hellweg Konkret und die internationale Gegenwartskunst. Ahlen, Germany: Kunstmuseum Ahlen, 2015.
Texts by Gerd Bollermann, Erich Franz, Matthias Bleyl, Burkhard Leismann, and Peter M. Kleine.

2014
Neuerfindung der Fotografie. Berlin/Boston: Walter De Gruyter GmbH, 2014.
Texts by Hans Danuser, Bettina Gockel, Reto Hänny, Philip Ursprung, Peter Zumthor, Joachim Sieber,
Urs Stahel, Steffan Siegel, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau.

2013
serge stauffer—kunst als forschung (serge stauffer—art as research). Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 2013.
Concept and editing by Michael Hiltbrunner.

2011
1997—2002: Valeria Belvedere. Milan: Valeria Belvedere, 2011.
Text by Anna Caterina Fontanetto.

2008
560 Broadway–A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991–2006. New York: Fifth Floor Foundation,
in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008.
Texts by Derrick R. Cartwright, James Cuno, Elizabeth Finch, Josef Helfenstein, Glenn D. Lowry,
David Mickenberg, Ann Philbin, Earl A. Powell III, Jock Reynolds, and Townsend Wolfe.

2008
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection: Works on Paper. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2008.
Texts by Louis Grachos and Lilly Wei.

2007
Panza, Giuseppe. Memories of a Collector. New York: Abbeville Press, 2007.

2007
What Is a Line? New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007.

2007
Auswahl eins. Cologne: Kolumba, 2007.

2006
Suter, Peter. Bild, Bilder—Malerei in der Sammlung der Bank Sarasin / Picture, Pictures—Swiss Painting in the Collection of the Sarasin Bank.
Muttenz/Basel: Schwabe, 2006.
Texts by Birgit Kempker, Roman Kurzmeyer, and Hans Ulrich Reck.

2005
Gimmi, Karin. Schweizer Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Die Sammlung der National Versicherung.
Zürich: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2005.

2005
Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960. Cambridge, Mass.: Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Harvard University, 2005.
Text by Celka Straughn.

2005
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005.
Texts by Louis Grachos and Lilly Wei.

2005
Weltinnenräume: Die Sammlung Hanck. Munich: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst, 2005.

2003
Soziale Fassaden u.a.: Farbe und Oberfläche in der Gegenwartskunst. Munich: Lenbachhaus, 2003.
Texts by Erich Franz and Susanne Gaensheimer.

2002
A szín önálló élete / Colour: A Life of Its Own. Budapest: Múcsarnok, 2002.

2001
Weinstock, Nino. Radical Painting und Präsenz der Farbe in den achtziger Jahren: Rudolf de Crignis, Christiane Fuchs, Marcia Hafif, Joseph Marioni, Olivier Mosset, Winston Roeth, Erik Saxon, Adrian Schiess, Phil Sims, Frederic Matys Thursz, Julius Tobias, Peter Tollens, Günther Umberg, Dieter Villinger, Ulrich Wellmann, Peter Willen. Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2001.

2000
Das Gedächnis der Malerei / The Memory of Painting. Aarau, Switzerland: Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, 2000.

2000
Über die Wirklichkeit. Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, 2000.

1999
99 respektive 59. Aarau, Switzerland: Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, 1999.
Texts by Beat Wismer and Stefan Kunz.

1998
Bieri, Susanne, ed. Visible. Bern: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Graphische Sammlung, 1998. Texts in English and German.

1997
Regel und Abweichung. Zürich: Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, 1997.
Texts by Margit Weinberg Staber and Elisabeth Grossmann.

1995
820 + 816 Zwanzig Jahre öffentliches Kunstsammeln in Stadt und Kanton Zürich.
Zürich: Helmhaus Zürich, 1995.

1993
Das Einfache ist das Schwierige. Zug, Switzerland: Kunsthaus Zug, 1993.
Text by Rainer Peikert.

1989
Two Aspects of Abstraction. New York: Swiss Institute, 1989.
Text by Ziba de Weck.

1988
6. Biennale der Schweizer Kunst. Muttenz: Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler, Bildhauer, Architekten, 1988.
Text by Peter Killer.

1985
Moderne Kunst—unsere Gegenwart. Pfäffikon: Seedamm Kulturzentrum, 1985.
Texts by Fritz Billeter, Peter Killer, and Willy Rotzler.

1981
Dokumentation 7. Zürich: InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, 1981.
Texts by Dieter Hall et al.

1980
Saus und Braus. Zürich: Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, 1980.
Text by Bice Curiger.

1977
Artistes zurichois. Geneva: Musée Rath, 1977.

1976
Schweiz—37. Biennale von Venedig. Venice, 1976.

1976
Mountain Landscape by Swiss Artists. Charlotte, North Caroline: Mint Museum of Art, 1976.

ARTICLES

2016
MacAdam, Barbara A. “Am I Blue? Rudolf de Crignis's Quietly Complicated Works at Betty Cuningham Reveal Minimalism's Deep and Expressive Potential.” Art News, November 22, 2016.

2013
Baker, Kenneth. “Rudolf de Crignis at Berkeley Art Museum.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 8, 2013.

2009
“Der Strich als Raum.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 23, 2009.
Ermen, Reinhard, Alexander Roob, Stefan Gronert, Wolfgang Hanck. “Die umfassendeste oder offenste Gattung der Gegenwart?” Kunstforum International, no. 196 (April–May 2009), pp. 56–71.
Bennett, Steve. “‘Monochromatic’ artwork evolves from layers of color.” San Antonio Express-News, June 21, 2009.
Fisch, Sarah. “gray and blue. period.” San Antonio Current, June 3–9, 2009.
Green, Kate. “Rudolf de Crignis, Lawrence Markey.” Art Lies—A Contemporary Art Quarterly, no. 63 (Fall 2009), p. 101.

2008
Ermen, Reinhard. “Ein Sakralbau in den Dimensionen eines Museums: zu Eröffnung der Museums Kolumba des Erzbistums Köln.” Kunstforum International, no. 189 (January–February 2008), pp. 342–44.
MacAdam, Barbara. “Rudolf de Crignis, Peter Blum.” Art in America 107, no. 8 (September 2008), p. 150.
Smith, Roberta. “Rudolf de Crignis ‘Paintings from 1992 to 2006.’” New York Times, June 13, 2008.

2007
Fronz, Peter. “All from America.” Kunstforum International, no. 188 (October–November 2007), pp. 444–47.
Zinsser, John. “Constantly Blue Sky, Never a Cloud: On Rudolf de Crignis, 1948–2006.” Brooklyn Rail, February 2007.

2006
Hollenstein, Roman. “Nachruf in der Neuen.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 28, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. “Rudolf de Crignis, 58, Painter With a Distinct Abstract Style, Dies.” New York Times, December 30, 2006.

2005
Stahl, Enno. “Fenster zum Inneren der Farbe.” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, May 28, 2005.

2004
Johnson, Ken. “Rudolf de Crignis.” New York Times, January 16, 2004.
MacAdam, Barbara. “Rudolf de Crignis, Peter Blum.” Art News 103, no. 4 (April 2004), pp. 114, 117.
Walthemath, Joan. “Rudolf de Crignis, Paintings at Peter Blum.” Brooklyn Rail, January 2004.

2003
Meier, Philipp. “Von den Wurzeln zum wilden Crossover.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 24–25, 2003.

2002
Johnson, Ken. “Three Painters.” New York Times, April 5, 2002.
Koerver, Jens Peter. “Sehen heisst beteiligt sein.” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, June 2002.

2001
Cohen, Mark Daniel. “Changing Daylight” Reviewny.com, New York, February 15, 2001.
Kisters, Jürgen. “Blaue Stunde—Rudolf de Crignis und die Kraft der Farbe.” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, August 4–5, 2001.
MacAdam, Barbara. “Monochrome/Monochrome?” Art News 100, no. 5 (May 2001), p. 190.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Rudolf de Crignis at Peter Blum.” Art in America 89, no. 10 (October 2001), p. 161.

2000
McQuaid, Cate. “De Crignis Blues Offer a Feast for the Eyes.” The Boston Globe, January 13, 2000.
Müller, Sabine. “Joseph Marioni: ‘Painters Are Fundamentally Image Makers.’” Kunstforum International, no. 149 (January–March 2000), pp. 274–85.
Müller, Sabine. “Hier Licht, dort Dickicht.” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, April 13, 2000.

1999
Baker, Kenneth. “Stillness of Abstract Paintings Rewards Contemplation—Monochrome Rules at Sweetow.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 1999.
Bonetti, David. “Abstraction's remarkable return.” San Francisco Examiner, May 7, 1999.
Gronert, Stefan. “Das Ereignis der Sichtbarkeit—Zu den Papierarbeiten von Rudolf de Crignis (The Event of Visibility—Works on Paper by Rudolf de Crignis).” November 1999. English and German texts.
Imdahl, Georg. “Blau, blau, blau sind alle Bilder—Rudolf de Crignis bei Cora Hölzl in Düsseldorf.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 17, 1999. English and German texts.
Kirchoff, Nicole. “Wenn die Sonne ging, Konnten die Bilder wieder miteinander sprechen.” Westfälische Rundschau, June 14, 1999.
Kokot, Sharon. “Colors Speak for Themselves.” The Columbus Dispatch, April 11, 1999.

1998
Dubach, Renate. “Bücher, in denen es fast nichts zu lesen gibt.” Berner Zeitung, April 27, 1998.
Ermen, Reinhard. “Rudolf de Crignis: Colour Paintings.” Kunstforum International, no. 142 (October–December 1998), p. 464. English and German texts.
Imabach, Jost Martin. “Die Wucht feiner Kunst.” Der Bund, April 24, 1998.

1997
Brennan, Michael. “‘Issues of Abstraction’ at Margarete Roeder Gallery.” ArtNet, September 1997.
Kuoni, Karin. “Rudolf de Crignis bei Eric Stark.” Kunst-Bulletin (Zürich), no. 4, April 1997.

1996
Lambrecht, Luk. “Blue, Blue, Nothing but Blue.” De Morgen, November 8, 1996.

1995
Gerster, Ulrich. “Hinter der Farbhaut—de Crignis in Winterthur.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 14, 1995.

1992
Sidler, Pius. “Von Schwarzer Farbe getränkt.” Zuger Nachrichten, October 1, 1992.

1988
Hollenstein, Roman. “Rudolf de Crignis, Galerie Brigitta Rosenberg.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 10, 1988.
Wolf, Conradin. “Lichtspiel in den Strassen-schluchten.” Tages-Anzeiger (Zürich), September 24, 1988.