The paintings of Anna Leonhardt take time. Little by little, an astonishing light emerges giving the roughly applied, expressive paint clarity and definition. Her pictures are very direct, but based on experience. The ambiences and sensations unfolded by lines and paint carry Anna Leonhardt’s painting. Mere surfaces become broad, atmospheric spaces, while individual colours begin to vibrate reciprocally and enthral us as viewers. The book presents her painterly work for the first time. Text in English and German. SELLING POINT: . The first monograph on painter Anna Leonhardt presents her expressive and atmospherically dense abstract paintings. Her pictures are very direct, but based on experience 92 colour, 8 b/w images