Publisher's Synopsis
Since more than four decades, the Colognebased painter Oliver Jordan (b. 1958) has been preoccupied with the theme of portraiture. The result of this work is now being honored in a comprehensive three-volume publication. The first volume presented here is devoted to portraits of well-known personalities from the fields of art and culture, including visual artists, fellow painters, writers, musicians, and philosophers. An intensive examination of the respective person and his or her work, in some cases over decades, serves at the same time to help the artist find his own painterly and personal identity and is also an important artistic commitment.
