New European Painting emerged in the 1980s and reached a critical point of major distinction and influence in the 1990sChris Dercon (ed.), 1980-1996 in: Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp.496-561. with painters like Gerhard Richter,Gerhard Richter. Atlas. D.A.P., NY, 2006.Stefan Germer, "Des souvenirs inoppotuns," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 544-547. Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Bracha EttingerBrian Massumi and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Drawing Papers n.24. The Drawing Center, NY, 2001Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Women Artists at the Millennium. Cambridge Massachusetts: October Books, MIT Press, 2006Griselda Pollock, "Rencontre avec l'histoire," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 535-540. whose paintings have established and continue to create a new dialogue between the historical archive, American Abstraction and figuration.Pollock, Griselda, "Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma." In: EurAmerica. Vol.40 n.4: 829-886. 2010. The major new European painters of this era show strong engagements with painful personal and general history, as well as shared history; its memory and its oblivion; and with life under the shadow of World War II, utilizing research in new and old materials, photography and oil painting.
