Painting
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Gaia Regazzoni Jäggli
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Und die Erhabenheit der Berge / And the Grandeur of the Mountains / E la grandiositá della montagnaErnst 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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Ed. Dorthe Aagesen et al.
Kirchner and Nolde
Expressionism. ColonialismErnst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) and Emil Nolde (1867–1956) are leading figures in the German Expressionist movement. Turning away from Western society and the established norms of bourgeois culture, the artists looked to people, ... -
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Kristine Bilkau et al.
Miwa Ogasawara
UnspokenPeople between light and shade, love and despair, closeness and distance, calm and restlessness. Miwa Ogasawara’s painting represents the attempt to approach Man quietly in all his nuances. In her pictures she captures the brittle, shimmering ... -
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Ed. Sadia Abbas et al.
Shahzia Sikander
Extraordinary RealitiesPioneering 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. Stephan Koja
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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Ed. Gerlinde Gruber et al.
Rubens's Great Landscape with a Tempest
Anatomy of a MasterpieceThe 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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Rudolf Leopold
Egon Schiele. Catalogue raisonné
Paintings, Watercolours, DrawingsThe 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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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 LivingDuring 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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Eva Bader et al.
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 peintureThis 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 RockThis 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 LiesXenia 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
Paintings on Stone
Science and the SacredPaintings 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 CollectionThe 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 RealHelmut 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 paperHow 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. Gilbert Vicario
Agnes Pelton
Desert TranscendentalistAgnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. ... -
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Ed. Hannelore Fischer
Käthe Kollwitz
A survey of her work 1867 - 1945“I want to have an effect during this age in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” This sentence, a diary entry from 1922, is the creed of a great artist. It is as topical today as it was then. Käthe ... -
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Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.
Tell me about <s>yesterday</s> tomorrow
About the Future of the PastHistorical 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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Christoph Wagner
Hans Purrmann
The Great Masters of ArtThe 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’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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Christoph Wagner
Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol.II. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939-1967The 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
frontierPhyllida 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. Gerda Ridler
The artist Inge Dick (b. 1941) is one of the famous representatives of contemporary Austrian art. For the past 50 years she has focused on the colour spectrum of natural light. She creates conceptual series of painting, Polaroid photography and ... -
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Ed. Oliver Kase et al.
Au rendez-vous des amis
Klassische Moderne im Dialog mit Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Goetz / Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung GoetzClassical Modernism is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the generations of artists that followed. This catalogue sheds new light on the relationship between modern and contemporary art across the generations and across the genres, through ... -
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Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.
Jacobus Vrel
Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic PainterHis 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. Nicole Gnesa
Philip Grözinger’s art derives from his investigations of future-oriented visions. With his individualistic painterly signature he invites the viewer to join him on a surreal journey through the pictorial traditions of the Pop culture of ... -
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Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.
Jacobus Vrel
Peintre du mystèreHis 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. Thomas Zuhr
All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer PublishersFounded 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. Kunsthalle Bielefeld et al.
Jacoba van Heemskerck
Truly ModernIn less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her expressive subjects, including landscapes, townscapes and harbour scenes, are characterised by ...