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American post-1945 art is as unconventional as it is diverse. Starting in the 1960s, artists looked especially to printmaking in their search for new paths 鈥� a development that went down in history as the Graphic Boom or Graphic Revolution. The St盲del Museum has been collecting contemporary American art on paper since that time. Thanks to ongoing support from the Heinz und Gisela Friederichs-Stiftung as well as the St盲delscher Museums-Verein e.V., the holdings today encompass outstanding works by well-known artists from Jackson Pollock to Louise Bourgeois. From 6 April to 17 July 2022, the St盲del Museum is presenting a selection of some 50 prints, drawings, and multiples from this rich collection. They revolve around the state of being human, a theme as old as it is fundamental, and one that preoccupied many artists after World War II. In their art, mimetic representations of the human figure gave way to the abstract-symbolic, the fragment, the imprint, even the void. Human perception and experience seemed disjointed; language as an instrument for describing the world was called into question. The examples on view testify to how artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Kiki Smith, Kara Walker, and many others developed artistic strategies to negotiate human existence, also their own.