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Clemens Krümmel on Feliks Topolski – Expressionism Home and Abroad

With the Polish-British painter and draughtsman Feliks Topolski (1907–1989), I want to present an  extremist of reportage drawing, illustration and press graphics who was very prolific in his lifetime and has been almost forgotten in the course of the last forty years. I’ll focus on his travel books and his independently published „Chronicles“ (1953–1979), a pictorial and political record of almost three decades of world history that was available as a very affordable artist’s edition.

Clemens Krümmel (*1964) is an art historian and translator, lives in Berlin and teaches at Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Image from Topolski’s Chronicles, vol, XIII, 1965.