Ernst A. Busche / Paul Maenz, Berlin / Cologne, 1987. Softcover exhibition catalogue / artist monograph.
Approx. 27.5 × 20 cm. 24 pages with colour illustrations. Printed wrappers.
Condition: Varies by copy. Examples on the market show light shelf wear and handling consistent with period art paperbacks.
An early Dokoupil catalogue from the late 1980s, tied to the Paul Maenz context and to the moment when his name was becoming fixed within the wider field of postwar European painting. Dokoupil emerged around the Mülheimer Freiheit / Junge Wilde milieu but quickly became harder to stabilise than that label suggests, moving restlessly across styles, surfaces, and procedures. This book belongs to that first strong period of circulation: not yet a late retrospective object, but a working document from the moment his position was still being actively produced.
A period artist book from the Cologne-centred 1980s art system — a support for reputation, distribution, and placement as much as a record of paintings.
