"Martin Engelman’s (1924 – 1992) artistic career began in Paris at the end of the 1950s. Through international exhibitions, participation in documenta III and a DAAD grant, his path led him to Germany where he held a painting professorship in Berlin. Engelman’s expressive use of forms, multilayered imagery, and bold colorfulness are present in all periods of his oeuvre. His early efforts reveal an affinity with the CoBra movement: mythic ..."
"For many years, David Rabinowitch saw drawing as being inseparable from sculpture. It was only with "The Construction of Vision" in 1969 that he began creating drawings without any direct reference to his sculptural works. With approximately 80 drawings and several exemplary sculptures, the book focuses on the early works of the Canadian artist, who moved to New York in the early 1970s. In-depth texts, an interview, and personal stateme ..."
"At the end of 1934, Oskar Kokoschka (18861980) planned to travel to Prague for ten days in order to produce a portrait of the Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk. The original plan developed into a four-year stay. The Austrian Expressionist created more than 30 oil paintings while he was there, including 15 cityscapes of Prague. For the first time a catalogue is dedicated exclusively to Kokoschka’s works produced in Czecho ..."
"Michael Raedecker occupies his own unique position within the field of contemporary painting: essentially dedicated to figuration, he replaces the concrete surroundings of his motifs with fields of color. His houses, plants, and laundry pieces can be understood as critical analyses of painting and pictorial composition and are often characterized by a mystical atmosphere. Typical of Raedecker s works is the combination of paint and thre ..."
"In his paintings, Rainer Gross combines the traditions of European art history with the vibrancy of New York City. From the re-creation of Peter Paul Rubens's Baroque female nudes as pinups to colorful, vibrant abstraction, the artist's photo-realistic work from 1972 to the present is captured in this comprehensive visual reference. This celebration of an acclaimed artist's work covers his entire career--from his experimentation with th ..."
New Alchemy Contemporary Art After Beuys by Melanie Bono, Melanie, WienandVerlag Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by WienandVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86832-038-1, ISBN: 3-86832-038-5
"Die Publikation präsentiert elf vielbeachtete junge Positionen aktueller Kunst, die in der ästhetischen und inhaltlichen Tradition des künstlerischen Erbes von Joseph Beuys stehen und die von ihm eingeführten und inhaltlichen Kategorien für die Gegenwart aufgreifen und weiterdenken. Dazu zählt die Wahl von zumeist "armen", also prekären, organischen und ephemeren Materialien ebenso wie ein spezifischer Umgang mit dem Raum, die auratisch ..."
"Seit 2007 arbeitet die Malerin und Zeichnerin Barbara Camilla Tucholski (geb. 1947) mit den Mitteln der Intervention in dem Ort ihrer Kindheit, dem vorpommerschen Loitz an der Peene. Nachdem sie zunächst ihr Geburtshaus in ein Gesamtkunstwerk mit dem Titel Im Schloss meiner Erinnerung verwandelte, erstreckt sich ihre jüngste Arbeit über den gesamten öffentlichen Stadtraum. Die Schaufenster von 56 leerstehenden Läden hat sie mit vorgeble ..."
"Katalog zur Ausstellung im Glaskasten Marl 2018Gebundenes BuchSeit den 1960er-Jahren verwendete der Bildhauer Franz Bernhard (1934-2013) bevorzugt die Materialien Holz und Eisen. Noch während des Studiums an der Karlsruher Akademie begann er damit, aus einfachen Holzbalken gerüsthaft die Form von Büsten nachzubauen. Eisen als zweiter Werkstoff bot die Möglichkeit der freien Verknüpfung und weit auskragender Winkel. Die autonome, konstru ..."
"Paul Klee was not only an artist, but also a musician and theater lover, and initially he fluctuated between these disciplines. Although he ultimately chose to focus on art, he remained closely tied to music and the theater throughout his life. This catalog vividly reflects this close connection between art and music. Rhythms and melodies can be discovered in landscapes and abstract compositions, while many of his figural scenes are bas ..."
Lundahl & Seitl New Originals (German Edition) by Kunstmuseum Bonn, WienandVerlag Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2018 by WienandVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86832-390-0, ISBN: 3-86832-390-2
"With their interactive projects, Lundahl & Seitl ‘guide’ visitors through international museums with the help of headphones and vision-impeding goggles. With heightened senses, the visitors experience art in new and spectacular ways. With New Originals (2017), the artist duo is particularly interested in how images are created in our brains and how we remember them. The catalogue presents New Originals in the context of Lundahl's & Seit ..."
"Since 1815, when Johann Friedrich Städel donated his art collection and estate as the foundation for the institution that would later bear his name, the Städel Museum's holdings have been continuously expanded, featuring masterpieces from the fourteenth century to the present day by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Tischbein, Renoir, Kirchner, and Gerhard Richter, among others. This short guide presents roughly one hundred works for the ..."
Show & Tell Bild und Erzählung in Moderne und Gegenwart. Grafik aus den Kunstmuseen Krefeld by Magdalena Holzhey, WienandVerlag, Martin Hentschel Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by WienandVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86832-288-0, ISBN: 3-86832-288-4
"The range of the graphic art collection at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld is enormous: art from around 1900 and classical modernism as well as a wide selection of works on paper from the 1960s to the present. It is this very diversity that calls for a new look at the collection. The catalogue therefore focuses less on individual drawings and more on a wealth of possible, occasionally surprising connections. Accompanying texts highlight the his ..."
"Eight cities, nine museums and approximately 120 artists come together to create one unique art event focused on the contemporary art of China. Painting, ink drawings, calligraphic works, sculptures, installations and videos present a comprehensive overview of recent Chinese art. The number 8 which appears in the title of this large-scale exhibition project refers not only to the eight participating museums, but also to the important "l ..."
"The 1961 film Last Year in Marienbad broke with traditional structures of time, location, and causality like no other film before it. The director, Alain Resnais, played with an artistic language in which the style itself became the content. In doing so, he defined an appreciation of art that has extended into the present day: Nouvelle Vague. The catalogue examines the influence of the film on the fine arts, on Pop culture and fashion, ..."
"Bettina Blohm (b. 1961) vividly combines nature and abstraction: In her drawings, she condenses the ever-changing rhythms and structures of landscapes to spontaneous notations; in her paintings, she then transfers these impressions into an abstract syntax to create open compositions in layers of colour full of luminosity, which are evidence of an analysis of both Matisse and Abstract Expressionism. Bettina Blohm moved to New York in 198 ..."
"’Water, especially the sea, opens our thoughts.’ Since the late 1960s, Fabrizio Plessi (b. 1940), one of the most renowned conceptual and video artists, has addressed the element of water and, later, also the element of fire, which he views as symbols of temporality. With these, he facilitates a direct and impressive experience of the power of nature. The catalogue presents, among others, Plessi‘s work for the facade of the Kunsthalle R ..."
"The Catalan artist Jaume Plensa is considered one of the most important contemporary sculptors in the world. His spectacular and yet meditative sculptures can be seen in public spaces around the globe. At the 2015 Venice Biennale, Jaume Plensa received the Global Fine Art Award for "Best Public Installation" in honor of his contribution at the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore. Until the 1990s, the artist was primarily known for his cast ..."
Herta Müller Massa Del Canto Malerei Und Zeichnung by Eugen Blume, Herta: Müller, WienandVerlag Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by WienandVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86832-314-6, ISBN: 3-86832-314-7
"Herta Müller translates her visual impressions of the semblance of light, reflections in water, bleached boulders, and colorful shadows into sensitive poetic painting."
"Die Jugendstilfliesen-Schenkung Inge NiemöllerGebundenes BuchUm 1900 erlebte die Fliese als dekorativ-künstlerisches Objekt eine wahre Blütezeit. Im Spannungsfeld von maschinellen Fertigungsmethoden und künstlerischem Design brachte der Jugendstil in seiner Ornamentfreude eine unerschöpfliche Vielfalt an neuen Bildmotiven hervor. Der Katalog beleuchtet die von England ausgehenden gestalterischen Impulse auf die immense Fliesenkonjunktur ..."
"The departure point for his works are geometric abstraction and its multitudinous possibilities but also its traditions. For forty years now Klaus J. Schoen (b. 1931) has experimented with numerous variations of form and color. The current publication permits the first comprehensive insight into the artist’s creative period of many years’ standing and presents the complete cosmos of Schoen’s painting by means of many different groups of ..."