Book description: Max Weiler’s 'Four Walls' is a cycle of paintings that is unusual in terms of its format and theme in comparison to other works of art produced in the mid-1970s. Neither the ‘landscape’ theme, nor the idea of a series of paintings that is complete within itself, nor the considerable size of the four canvases (each measures 256 x 608 cm) are in keeping with the mainstream art of the time. The paintings were only shown twice before: once in 1978 at the 'Wie die Natur' Weiler exhibition at the Vienna Academy and in 1979 at the Klagenfurt Künstlerhaus. They were shown for the last time in 2004, at the Vienna Museumsquartier as part of an exhibition of the cycle curated by Edelbert Köb and organized by the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.(From the essay by Matthias Boeckl). The book documents this exhibition. The richly illustrated essay by Matthias Boeckl gives the reader an overall perspective within the context of art history.
