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This publication concentrates on the painted work of the internationally renowned artist and gives an overview of all of his creative periods over a span of five decades - from the Art Informel beginnings around 1958, the development of his "Kopffüßler" form, up to the spectacularly large and austere "house" images of his last phase of work. The so-called "red" pictures, which are of enormous intensity and archaic eroticism, as well as the most important pictures engaging directly with his chosen home in Italy, are shown. And finally the break in Horst Antes's work is documented: his turning away from the figure he invented and towards new pictorial themes of windows, boats, "date paintings" and in particular the predominantly black "house" pictures in their austere pictorial language and their solid presence. Exhibition: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (14.06.-16.09.2013).