"Katharina von Werz (b. Munich, 1940; lives and works in Munich) is an artist of her own kind. The painter and sculptor, who was educated in Geneva and Munich, charted a path apart from the stylistic movements and trends of recent art history. Since the 1970s, she has developed a fascinatingly multifaceted and distinctive visual vocabulary. Her observation of nature and a myriad of keenly perceived sense impressions form the point of departure for a creative process in which the particular motif is gradually transformed into an "inward image."
The present monograph was written and edited...