Artists Modern Art - Hatje Cantz

GERMAINE KRULL

Germaine Krull led an unconventional, nomadic life of adventure. Her extraordinary photographs of technical buildings and industrial plants catapulted her to the forefront of the international photo avant-garde, the New Vision movement.

PAUL GAUGUIN

While Gauguin was unable to find his longed-for paradise in life, he succeeded in putting his ideal vision of an unspoiled world on canvas - with bright colors and elemental forms that revolutionized art.

AUGUST MACKE UND FRANZ MARC

August Macke and Franz Marc were connected by a close friendship, which is one of the special events of the art of the 20th century, not only in human, but also in artistic terms.

HILMA AF KLINT

Hilma af Klint's 2019 solo show is the most visited exhibition ever at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: it is the spectacular rediscovery of the pioneer of abstract painting.

HANNAH RYGGEN

Originally trained as a painter, Hannah Ryggens discovered woven murals early on as a form of artistic expression for her social and political involvement.

GUSTAV KLIMT

In the field of tension between decadence and avant-garde, Gustav Klimt held up a transfiguring mirror to society and at the same time, as a member of the Secession, championed the breakthrough of modernism.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Brancusi is one of the most important sculptors of Classical Modernism. He took up themes from antiquity and elements of African and Romanian folk art and developed them further in long series of works through consistent abstraction.