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To mark the opening of Peter Zumthor's new museum building, an expanded new edition of the collection catalog is being published, which also includes works by artists acquired by the museum over the past ten years. In the publication, the Fondation Beyeler's collection artists themselves have their say: quotes from letters, interviews, or their own writings offer a diverse range of perspectives on working methods and thoughts on art. By including their artistic voices, past and present are brought together, allowing for an eager anticipation of the collection's future. For, as Sam Keller, Director of the Fondation Beyeler, said about Ernst Beyeler: "His museum is a living place for art. The greatest joy for him was when people left the museum with a smile."
With works by, among others, Lucas Arruda, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Marlene Dumas, Max Ernst, Roni Horn, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Otobong Nkanga, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Philippe Parreno, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Wolfgang Tillmans, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol.
This extraordinary volume also captivates with its modern design and special features, including a visible spine. The result is a unique overview that delights those interested in art, botany, design, and fashion alike.
DOMITILLA DARDI (born 1970) is a historian and freelance curator for design. Since 2007, she has collaborated with the MAXXI Museum in Rome, for which she curated more than twenty exhibitions from 2010 to 2023. In 2019, she co-founded the design fair EDIT Napoli, for which she serves as curator. From 2003 to 2007, she taught at the Faculty of Architecture in Ascoli Piceno and was a visiting professor at various institutions, including the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, the Accademia Abadir in Catania, and the MADE program in Syracuse. Since 2007, she has also been a lecturer at the IED in Rome.
Pop art ahead, Alex Katz developed a figurative painting, which was significantly reduced in the early 1960s-influenced by film, television and poster advertising. Apparently distant and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York scene and the well -off leisure society. The pressure graphic plays a central role in his work. In lithographs, etchings, screen prints, wood and linen cuts reproduced, reflects and reduces that cool aesthetics of an immediate contemporary and present.
Since the first publication of a list of works, Katz has almost doubled his pressure -graphic oeuvre: time for a new inventory. New essays, interviews with Katz, a list of all print graphics, cutout editions and artist books as well as a list of its use graphics, book illustrations and projects in public space enable a profound examination of one of the best-known American artists of our time.
In this book, Werner tells of his childhood during World War II and the struggles of finding his way. He reports on artists with whom he worked, argued, failed spectacularly, and achieved great successes. His accounts, together with photographs and documents, not only form an impressive contemporary testimony, but also show that the artistic tensions that emerged back then are far from fully explored.
Michael Werner, born in 1939, is a German art dealer and gallery owner. His gallery Michael Werner, now based in Berlin and which, over the course of his long career, was also represented in Cologne, London, New York, Paris, and Athens, is one of the most internationally influential galleries in post-war history. With it, he sustainably established artists such as Georg Baselitz, A. R. Penck, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Marcel Broodthaers, and Sigmar Polke.
Nils Emmerichs, born in 1988, studied art history and philosophy in Düsseldorf, Basel, and Karlsruhe. He earned his doctorate on the influence of visual arts on Heiner Müller's work. For the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, he supervised and curated exhibitions by Michael Majerus, Olaf Nicolai, and Andreas Schulze, and conceived a series of events with Rosemarie Trockel. As an author and editor, he has published texts on Marcel Odenbach, Leiko Ikemura, Ulrich Rückriem, and A. R. Penck, among others.
The catalog traces the journey of a seeker who, in an era marked by a belief in progress, yearned for a spiritual space beyond technology. Published for Franz Marc's first monographic exhibition in over twenty years, this publication offers a comprehensive insight into the work of this extraordinary artist.
FRANZ MARC (1880–1916) is considered one of the most important painters of German Expressionism. His study of literature and linguistics and his bilingual upbringing by his French mother shaped him, as did his intensive engagement with the art of his time. He died at the age of 36 near Verdun in the First World War.
ALEXANDRA LOSKE is an art historian and works as an author and curator with a particular interest in the history of color in painting, printing, and architecture. She has numerous publications on the subject of color.
This newly designed, expanded and revised edition of "Fit für den Kunstmarkt" (Fit for the Art Market), the practical guide in a handy pocket format, answers these and a host of other fundamental questions on the subject of art collecting.
About the Author:
Claudia Herstatt has been a freelance art journalist in Hamburg since 1989 for Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, Kunstforum, Welt am Sonntag, before that art correspondent in Brussels and Zurich, 1991/92 spokesperson for documenta IX in Kassel, from 2000 to 2006 weekly "Kunstmarkt" column in Die Zeit.
The exhibition and catalogue focus on Corinth's career and his great influence on the city's art scene, but also on his formative private environment. Less well-known themes also demonstrate how modern the artist painted, lived and thought: Corinth's painting school, where he primarily taught women, and his work for the Berlin theatre.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925) is one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism. Born in East Prussia, the painter studied in Königsberg, Munich and Paris before rising to become a leading figure of the Berlin Secession. His extensive oeuvre ranges from portraits and nudes to landscapes. At the beginning of the 20th century, he became one of the most important representatives of modernism.
Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné was released on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in February 2012.
Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years researching and preparing this publication. The six-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter’s paintings and sculptures will be published over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.
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They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuberant wealth and hedonism as well as to the enlightened curiosity and religious fervor of the Baroque era. This lavishly illustrated book that even features a pictorial glossary sets the stage for the internationally renowned collection of still lifes housed in Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery). Focusing on the dazzling masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish painting, this book examines the genre in all its diverse facets. What meaning, what content, and what function did still lifes have, what allegories and symbols are concealed in their coded messages? How did the artists take the game of optical illusion to extremes? More than 70 still lifes from the Dresden collection by painters such as Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch, and Frans Snyders provide a unique insight into the golden age of this magical genre.
With his pictures, Günter Fruhtrunk (1923-1982) created an autonomous, uncompromising oeuvre that made him one of the outstanding representatives of German painting in the post-war era. He became famous for his vector-like, diagonal stripes: impressive paintings of parallel, diagonal bundles of stripes in yellow, orange, green, black, and white, whose geometrical, abstract vocabulary of forms he derived from constructivism.
This catalogue raisonné—the result of extensive scientific research over a period of four years— contains all of the paintings he produced between 1952 and 1982. Along with several essays that explore Fruhtrunk’s work and its significance, while also defining its place in art history, the catalogue raisonné contains texts by the author never published before and an extensive biography. The work is organized into two volumes according to chronology and visual motif.
EXHIBITION
Munich, Galerie Walter Storms
15.09.2018 - 13.10.2018