A Life with Colour: Gerard Wagner

"When embarking on writing a biography of the painter Gerard Wagner, one encounters a kind of paradox--for Wagner claimed not to have had a biography. It is true that events in his life were not particularly dramatic, and he hardly traveled the world. Few artists have so wholeheartedly spent most of their adult life before an easel as Gerard Wagner did. The journey of his life is written in his paintings. As Gerard Wagner described in his biographical sketch, those inner journeys to differe...