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Ed. Wiebke Steinmetz et al.

Ruth Baumgarte
Werde, die du bist! Lebenskunst / Become Who You Are! The Art of Living

During a period of radical change, Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence form the main area of focus. This volume introduces her as a passionate creator of drawings, a versatile ...

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Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Rethinking Kirchner

A major conference was held in 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s elective home, to mark the 80th anniversary of the artist’s death. The lavishly illustrated volume accompanying the event brings together international experts who ...

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Ed. Cheryl Sim

Relations
Diaspora and Painting / La diaspora et la peinture

This richly illustrated volume explores the multiple and evolving meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. The book, based on an exhibition held at the Phi Foundation brings together artists who ...

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Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.

Gerald Clarke
Falling Rock

This survey brings together three decades of work by contemporary Native American artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilising wit and humour to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural ...

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Xenia Hausner
True Lies

Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, ...

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Ed. Judith W. Mann

Painting on Stone
Science and the Sacred

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians – stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by an international team of ...

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Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.

My Generation
The Jablonka Collection

The Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile holdings of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his ...

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Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.

Helmut Sturm
Subverting the Real

Helmut Sturm’s paintings radiate powerful colours and forms, yet are simultaneously both lyrically tender and poetical. He developed his individual pictorial language in a study of Cubism and Art "Informel" as well as artists like ...

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Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Isabelle Dyckerhoff
on canvas / on paper

How can you paint colour? That is the question which the Munich artist Isabelle Dyckerhoff asks herself anew before every picture. The material presence of colour, its expressive power and spatial effect are characteristic for her works on canvas ...

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection
Vol. 2: Art from 1950 to the Present Day

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 120 selected works ...

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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Johannes Itten and Thun
Nature in Focus

The Bauhaus master Johannes Itten is one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town ...

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Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Folklore & Avant-Garde
The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism

The publication examines in depth the influence of folkloric traditions on the pioneers of Modernism in the develop- ment of their new artistic language. Craft objects and folk art are contrasted with masterpieces by artists of the avant-garde like ...

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Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long
Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

Heinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted ...

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Wilhelm Hausenstein

Kairouan
Or how Paul Klee became a Painter

The impressions which Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance: »Colour and I are one. I am a painter.« A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Decadence and Dark Dreams
Belgian Symbolism

Sensuousness, magic, a profound momentousness and irrationality are the hallmarks of the new art movement of Belgian Symbolism, which emerged during the 1880s. From Georg Minne and Félicien Rops to Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor, the portraits, ...

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Bernd Pappe et al.

Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. The works are presented in detail in image and text. Essays by ...

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Christoph Wagner

Hans Purrmann
The Great Masters of Art

The painter Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) ranks among the most important painters in the history of twentieth-century art. His vibrant Colourism drew on the works of Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne, but he achieved independent international ...

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Ed. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Picasso & Les Femmes D`Alger

Picasso’s study of the old masters forms an impressive focus of his late work. At the beginning of this new interest stood the works series "Les Femmes d’Alger", which was on view in Paris, Munich, Cologne and Hamburg in 1955 ...

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Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Jacobus Vrel
Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter

His pictures look curious, his figures introverted and his street scenes strangely stage-like. Jacobus Vrel records everyday life in Holland during the 17th century, and creates quirky worlds at the same time. This volume presents the fascinating ...

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Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Jacobus Vrel

His pictures look curious, his figures introverted and his street scenes strangely stage-like. Jacobus Vrel records everyday life in Holland during the 17th century, and creates quirky worlds at the same time. This volume presents the fascinating ...

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Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Tell me about <s>yesterday</s> tomorrow
About the Future of the Past

Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today’s world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and unusual publication whose approaches and ...

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Ed. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et al.

Dreams of Freedom
Romanticism in Russia and Germany

Caspar David Friedrich and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov are the most important artists of the Romantic era in their native countries of Germany and Russia. At the centre of this opulent book are night scenes and moonlit landscapes, views of Dresden ...

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Ed. Gaia Regazzoni Jäggli

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Und die Erhabenheit der Berge / And the Grandeur of the Mountain / E la grandiositá della montagna

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spent his last years between 1917 and 1938 recovering from a mental breakdown in Davos. The overwhelming impression of the Alps moved him to create colourful, visionary landscapes and paint the daily lives of the peasants. The ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol.II. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939-1967

The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre which is only known in part today. The lavishly illustrated ...

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Ed. Damian Lentini

Phyllida Barlow
frontier

Phyllida Barlow (*1944) tests boundaries with her monumental sculptures in an eccentric yet humorous manner, reflecting on the relationship with our environment through her use of industrial and everyday materials. With impressive installation ...

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Ed. Kunsthalle Bielefeld et al.

Jacoba van Heemskerck
Truly Modern

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Ed. Thomas Zuhr

All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer Publishers

Founded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ...

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Ed. Sadia Abbas et al.

Shahzia Sikander
Extraordinary Realities

Pioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, ...

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Ed. Gerlinde Gruber et al.

Rubens's Great Landscape with a Tempest
Anatomy of a Masterpiece

The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens’s largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching discoveries during the latest restoration, the volume provides a comprehensive insight into the ...

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Rudolph Leopold

Egon Schiele. Catalogue raisonné
Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings

The monograph on Egon Schiele edited by Rudolf Leopold in 1972 forms the basis for Egon Schiele’s world fame. This important document of art-historical literature has long been out of print, but it is now available once more in a revised ...

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Ed. Stephan Koja

Raphael and the Madonna

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael’s paintings are regarded as some of the most innovative compositions to this day, 500 years ...

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Karin Althaus et al.

Florine Stettheimer
The Great Masters of Art

“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her sensuous and ironic ...

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Ed. Wiebke Steinmetz et al.

Ruth Baumgarte

Werde, die du bist! Lebenskunst / Become Who You Are! The Art of Living

During a period of radical change, Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence form the main area of focus. This volume introduces her as a passionate creator of drawings, a versatile applied graphic artist and an expressive painter.

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Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Rethinking Kirchner

A major conference was held in 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s elective home, to mark the 80th anniversary of the artist’s death. The lavishly illustrated volume accompanying the event brings together international experts who present their approach to Kirchner’s creative work, thereby providing a multi-faceted overview of an œuvre that has lost none of its topicality to this day.

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Ed. Cheryl Sim

Relations

Diaspora and Painting / La diaspora et la peinture

This richly illustrated volume explores the multiple and evolving meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. The book, based on an exhibition held at the Phi Foundation brings together artists who address questions of diaspora from diverse perspectives, methodologies, and aesthetic languages.

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Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.

Gerald Clarke

Falling Rock

This survey brings together three decades of work by contemporary Native American artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilising wit and humour to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural and political issues facing our world.

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Xenia Hausner

True Lies Englische Ausgabe

Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, the publication lures us into a female world filled with mysterious interpersonal relationships.

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Ed. Judith W. Mann

Painting on Stone

Science and the Sacred 1530–1800

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians – stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by an international team of scholars, the catalogue reveals the significance of these paintings, their complex meanings, and their technical virtuosity.

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Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.

My Generation

The Jablonka Collection

The Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile holdings of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his wide-ranging collection, which is dedicated primarily to artists of his own generation.

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Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.

Helmut Sturm

Subverting the Real

Helmut Sturm’s paintings radiate powerful colours and forms, yet are simultaneously both lyrically tender and poetical. He developed his individual pictorial language in a study of Cubism and Art "Informel" as well as artists like Max Beckmann, Asger Jorn and Willem de Kooning. The publication pays tribute to one of the most important witnesses of abstract-expressive painting in Germany.

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Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Isabelle Dyckerhoff

on canvas / on paper

How can you paint colour? That is the question which the Munich artist Isabelle Dyckerhoff asks herself anew before every picture. The material presence of colour, its expressive power and spatial effect are characteristic for her works on canvas and paper, which are presented together in this volume for book lovers.

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection

Vol. 2: Art from 1950 to the Present Day

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 120 selected works from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, from Josef Albers to Thomas Struth.

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Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Ed. Cheryl Sim

Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.

Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Ed. Judith W. Mann

Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.

Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

Wilhelm Hausenstein

Ed. Ralph Gleis

Bernd Pappe et al.

Christoph Wagner

Ed. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Ed. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et al.

Ed. Gaia Regazzoni Jäggli

Christoph Wagner

Ed. Damian Lentini

Ed. Kunsthalle Bielefeld et al.

Ed. Thomas Zuhr

Ed. Sadia Abbas et al.

Ed. Gerlinde Gruber et al.

Rudolph Leopold

Ed. Stephan Koja

Karin Althaus et al.

Ed. Wiebke Steinmetz et al.

Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Ed. Cheryl Sim

Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.

Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Ed. Judith W. Mann

Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.

Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Hilti Art Foundation