Artists

By Michael Mackenzie Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it. Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and opposition in Germany between the wars, this book locates his work squarely in the mainstream of Weimar society. Informed by recent studies of collective remembrance, of camaraderie, and of the popular, working-class socialist groups that commemorated the war, this book takes Dix’s very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artist’s studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war. The author argues that Dix sought to establish a community of veterans through depictions of the war experience that used the soldier’s humorous, grotesque language of the trenches and that deliberately excluded women and other non-combatants. His depictions were preoccupied with heteronormativity in the context of intimate touch and tenderness between soldiers at the front and with sexual potency in the face of debilitating wounds suffered by others in the war. Hardcover422 pages Peter Lang, 20196 x 9 inchesISBN 9783034317238 Monographs

Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance

von Dietrich Schubert Das Arbeiterkind Otto Dix aus Gera/Elster war ein Jasager und der Sinnlichkeit leidenschaftlich ausgeliefert. Das betonte Dix, der seit Sommer 1927 als Lehrer an der Kunstakademie Dresden wirkte, in einem Brief von 1930/32 an Werner Haftmann. Und mit dem Dichter Alfred Döblin hätte er sagen können: „Die Dinge sind einzigartig …“ Aus diesen Gründen verachtete Dix die Maler, welche die sichtbare Wirklichkeit abwerten, und zwar weil sie damit – im Sinne der Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches – den Wert des Lebens abwerten. Bereits vor dem Krieg ‘14/18 lasen der junge Dix und seine Freunde statt Arthur Schopenhauer den lebensbejahenden Philosophen Nietzsche, der Schopenhauers Pessimismus überwunden hatte und im Kunstschaffen die Gegenkraft gegen den Willen zur Verneinung des Lebens sah, nämlich das Anti-Nihilistische par excellence.Als herausragend in Dix‘ Œuvre bewerten wir die Kriegsdarstellungen „Schützengraben“ von 1923 (verschollen), das Triptychon „Der Krieg“ 1929–1932 (heute in Dresden) und den Zyklus der 50 Radierungen, die Dix mit dem Galeristen Karl Nierendorf zum Anti-Kriegsjahr 1924 realisierte, mit denen er Protokolle der ‚Hölle‘ seiner Zeit als Spiegel vorhielt. Diese sind, wie W. Haftmann bereits schrieb, die bedeutendsten Kriegs-Darstellungen in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts; ein Exemplar befindet sich im Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne. Entgegen heutiger Meinung war Otto Dix keineswegs nur ein Protagonist der sog. „Neuen Sachlichkeit“ (Ausstellung in Mannheim 1925), die übrigens wieder in Mode ist, sondern er übertraf und entgrenzte im Großteil seines Kunstschaffens deren simple und glatte Formen in gekonnter Weise und voll Sarkasmus in seinen Figurenbildern, in Porträts und in weiblichen Aktbildern mit den Prinzipien des kritischen Verismus. Malerei kritischer Feststellung war die Formel des Dichters Carl Einstein für diese Kunst. Und Willi Wolfradt konnte gültig schreiben: „Dix ist eine einzige Obstruktion gegen das subtile Bildchen, das so tut als ob nichts gewesen ist." Hardcover464 Seiten, 159 SW- und 304 FarbabbildungenText in German Michael Imhofverlag, 20249.45 x 11.42 inchesISBN 9783731914211Monograph, Otto Dix

An die Schönheit Otto Dix: Von der Apothese zur Todsünde

By Helen Adkins and Ines Otschik Christian Schad created what were probably the world’s first artistic photograms and abstract photographs. The third volume of his catalogue raisonné is dedicated to his so-called ‘Schadographs’. Schad arranged materials – including waste paper, fabric remnants, or even lint – on light-sensitive paper and exposed these with the help of the sun shining on the windowsill. The results are abstract compositions in the experimental spirit of Dada. Hardcover368 pagesWienand, 20199.5 x 12.5 inchesISBN 9783879099344Monograph

Christian Schad: Schadographs, Catalogue Raisonné Vol.III

Edited by Saskia Bak, Andrea Jahn, Stella Rollig An intersectional approach to women artists working in an activist vein in the early 20th century The first half of the 20th century witnessed enormous waves of upheaval. Imperial dynasties were overthrown, economic crises spiraled into depressions and labor organizations advocated on behalf of the working class. As one of many marginalized groups still fighting for equal rights, women keenly felt each transformation of the global landscape. As more women were able to become professional artists, many centered their work on current events. Radical! enumerates over 70 artists whose work spoke to the most crucial issues of their time, addressing not only women’s rights but also racial inequality and economic injustice. With a timeline chronicling significant historical moments worldwide, the publication delineates each artist’s unique perspective and demonstrates how some even fought for rights that their counterparts took for granted. Artists include: Zubeida Agha, Romaine Brooks, Camilla Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Augusta Savage, Amrita Sher-Gil, Gazbia Sirry. Hardcover248 pages | 190 colorWalther König, 20258.94 x 0.71 x 10.71 inchesISBN 9783753305424Modernism, Women Artists

Radical! Women Artists and Modernism 1910-1950

Exhibition notecard for "Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity" February 20—May 26, 2025 Otto Dix (1891-1969)Dr. Mayer-Hermann, 1926 1 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Otto Dix: Neue Sachlichkeit Exhibition Notecard [Single Card]

By Florian Heine Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to one of European modern art’s most important movements. Founded in Munich in 1911, the Blue Rider Group was a revolutionary collective of artists that pioneered German Expressionism. Including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Natalia Goncharova, Gabriele Münter, and Marianne von Werefkin, the group rejected the prevailing formal and academic artistic trends of their time, sought to break free from the constraints of traditional painting, transcend the material world, and explore emotional and spiritual truths in their art. This book spotlights 35 important works that embody the artists’ pioneering achievements and radical innovations. It features stunning reproductions that highlight the movement’s use of luminous colors, symbolic forms, and expressive brushwork. Paperback112 pagesPrestel, 20246.75 x 0.39 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9783791377339Blue Rider, German Expressionism

The Blue Rider (Masters of Art)

Van Gogh (1853-1890)Self-Portrait, 18891 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Van Gogh: Self-Portrait [Large Single Card]

Exhibition notecard for "Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes"October 17, 2024—January 13, 2025Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South (Large), 1913Wilted Sunflowers (Autumn sun II), 1914 1 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes: Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Self-Portrait with Peacock Waistcoat, Standing, 1911

Egon Schiele: Self-Portrait with Peacock Waistcoat, Standing [Postcard]

Edited by Elizabeth DutzText by Elizabeth Dutz, Brigitte Holzinger and Natalie Lettner For Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877–1959), evil was intrinsic to his life and work. After a traumatic childhood growing up in Zell am See and subsequent mental crises, he began his artistic training in Munich in 1898. He processed his nightmares and obsessions in a large number of fantastical drawings. His subjects, perpetually pessimistic, remain relevant a century later: war, famine, pestilence, death and every horror in between. Kubin had a pronounced fear of the feminine, sexuality, night time and of being at the mercy of fate, all of which visited him in uncanny dreams. For Kubin, the aesthetic of evil proved to be the antithesis of the idyll: the deliberate suppression of a hideous reality. Drawn from the Albertina Museum’s collection of over 1,800 drawings by the artist, The Aesthetic of Evil displays Kubin’s grotesque vision as well as his superb draftsmanship. Amid the violent, haunting atmosphere of his graphic works it is easy to see how Kubin became trapped in his dark visions, to the point where the inexhaustible, intangible specter of evil consumed his life. Essays by Elisabeth Dutz, Natalie Lettner and Brigitte Holzinger explore Kubin’s cosmos of the sinister: his personal iconography of evil fueled by his nightmares and obsessions. Hardcover224 pages | 180 color illustrationsHatje Cantz, 20249.75 x 9.75 inchesISBN 9783775757737Monographs, Drawings

Alfred Kubin: The Aesthetic of Evil

Edited by Christian Bauer This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918).Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele’s landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition. This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist’s work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele’s landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States. Hardcover220 pagesPrestel, 20249.25 x 11.25 inchesISBN 9783791377483Egon Schiele, Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes Exhibition Catalogue

Introducing our exquisite set of 8 Egon Schiele notecards, drawn from the Neue Galerie's own holdings as well as other esteemed collections. Each card showcases a timeless masterpiece by the renowned Austrian artist, capturing the essence of his provocative and emotionally charged canvases. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century art. He is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, expressive style. These notecards are printed on high-quality cardstock with a matte finish, ensuring durability and a luxurious feel. They are blank inside, perfect for personal messages or for framing as miniature pieces of art. Images include:River Landscape with Two Trees, 1913Town among Greenery (The Old City III), 1917.Four Trees, 1917Yellow Town (detail), 1914Portrait of the Artist's Wife Edith Schiele, 1917-18Dr. Hugo Koller, 1918Current of Youth (Danaë), 1909Self-Portrait with Peacock Waistcoat, Standing, 1911 Notecard Box Set:16 square notecards and envelopes2 each of 8 images6 x 6 inches

Egon Schiele Notecard Set

By Sally Grant Explore the works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Gustav Klimt: 50 Masterpieces Explored is a dazzling collection of 50 cards exploring the masterpieces of one of the most celebrated artists of all time. From the shimmering golds and rich hues of The Kiss to the intricate patterns of The Tree of Life, each card showcases the beauty and complexity of Klimt’s style. Through detailed analyses of each painting, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of Klimt’s techniques, symbolism, and life story, and how they influenced his art. Whether you’re an art lover, a Klimt aficionado, or simply looking for a beautiful and informative deck of cards, Gustav Klimt: 50 Masterpieces Explored is sure to captivate and inspire. Hardcover Box, Non-traditional book51 pages/cardsSmith Street Gifts, 20244 x 5.8 inchesISBN 9781923049147 Monograph, Stationery

Gustav Klimt: 50 Masterpieces Explored

By Michael Lobel “[A] revealing study. . . . The fine-grained analysis and lively prose delight. Art history buffs will want to add this to their bookshelves.”—Publishers Weekly “To situate Van Gogh, the celebrated ‘painter of nature,’ as a witness, a critic, and at the same time an aesthete of the industrial despoliation of nature that inevitably marked the age of coal everywhere is a stunning achievement. Michael Lobel’s elegant—and cogently argued—book will fundamentally change our view of this important artist and greatly advance the conversation already underway between art history and the environmental humanities. A must-read for anyone interested in that conversation.” —Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature whose work gained its strength from his direct encounters with the unspoiled landscape. Michael Lobel upends this commonplace view by showing how Van Gogh’s pictures are inseparable from the modern industrial era in which the artist lived—from its factories and polluted skies to its coal mines and gasworks—and how his art drew upon waste and pollution for its subjects and even for the very materials out of which it was made. Lobel underscores how Van Gogh’s engagement with the environmental realities of his time provides repeated forewarnings of the threats of climate change and ecological destruction we face today. Van Gogh and the End of Nature offers a radical revisioning of nearly the full span of the artist’s career, considering Van Gogh’s artistic process, his choice of materials, and some of his most beloved and iconic pictures. Merging a timely sense of environmental urgency with bold new readings of the work of one of the world’s most acclaimed artists, this book weaves together detailed historical research and perceptive analysis into an illuminating portrait of an artist and his changing world. Hardcover200 Pages | 77 Color + 7 BWYale University Press, 20247.2 x 0.8 x 10 inchesISBN 9780300274363Vincent van Gogh, Monograph

Van Gogh and the End of Nature

Edited with text by Theodora Vischer Text by Tere Arcq, Andreas Beyer, Tamar Garb, Peter Geimer, Anna-Carola Krausse, Sylvie Patry, Uwe M. Schneede, Jennifer Thompson, and Hilda Trujillo. Gender interventions and formal innovations in female portraiture, through works by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton This superbly conceived publication looks at nine women artists whose careers were devoted primarily to portraiture, analyzing both the work they produced and the unique ways in which each artist captured her subjects’ likenesses and the spaces they inhabited. These artists represent the development of modernist art since 1870; each has made significant contributions to art history as they complicate long-held notions of the gaze and explore the relationship between the self, the subject and the artist. Close-Up examines women painters and photographers who are known primarily for self-portraiture, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman; it also looks at female artists who depicted the daily lives of women and children in a creative environment that was largely disinterested in such subjects, such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Lotte Laserstein. Still other women—Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton—embrace familiarity completely and depict friends and family as well as famous figures in their paintings. In essays by nine different authors, these artists and their subjects are considered individually and as part of a chronology of modern portraiture, with an emphasis on the dynamics of gender. Paperback344 pages | 215 color illustrationsHatje Cantz, 2021ISBN 97837757475787.5 x 10.25 inchesWomen Artists, Painting, Photography

Close-Up

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Nude Girl with Flower Vases, 1906-07

Paula Modersohn Becker: Nude Girl with Flower Vases [Postcard]

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Standing and Kneeling Nude Girls in Front of Poppies II, 1906

Paula Modersohn-Becker: Standing and Kneeling Nude Girls in Front of Poppies II [Postcard]

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907)Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907 Poster for the exhibition Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me 18 x 24 inches

Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me Exhibition Poster

Edited by Natalia Sidlina "The story of the friendships that made modern art. Brought together in the UK for the first time in 80 years, this exhibition book offers unprecedented access to the landmark exhibition's collection of masterpieces. Expressionists is a story of friendships told through art - the groundbreaking work of a circle of friends and close collaborators known as The Blue Rider. In the early twentieth century they came together to form, in their own words, 'a union of various countries to serve one purpose' - to tr "--From the Back Cover A crucial introduction to the origins of the German Expressionist movement and the influential Blue Rider group, focusing on their relationships and transcultural interests Founded in Munich in the 1910s, the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was a revolutionary collective of artists, musicians, performers and writers that included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, among many others. Their experiments with color, sound and light were key to the development of Expressionism, and their practice was stunningly varied. The group’s works encompassed painting, sculpture, design, curation, publishing, printmaking, textiles, performative arts, and even branched into sound and spirituality. This book offers an essential overview of the Blue Rider collective. Often described in conjunction with the German Expressionist movement, the Blue Rider was in fact one of the first transnational modern art collectives. This is a key focus of the book, along with along with new research foregrounding the relationships, gender dynamics and multimedia practices of the collective. New scholarship from more than a dozen international experts illuminates these themes as well as questions of spatiality, studio practice and creative community, with particular focus on the contributions of women associated with the Blue Rider circle. This richly illustrated publication features works by these acclaimed artists along with a trove of materials from their personal collections, including photography, international art, crafts and vernacular artifacts, and a comprehensive biographical section that serves as an important introduction to the circle of the Blue Rider creatives, including overlooked artists such as Wladimir Burliuk and Maria Franck-Marc. Hardcover240 Pages | 200 color + black-and-white illustrationsYale University Press, 20249 x 10.7 inchesISBN 9780300278330 Blue Rider, Expressionism

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider

Exhibition notecard for "Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I am Me"June 6 — September 9, 2024Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907)Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 19071 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I am Me Exhibition Notecard [Single Card]

By Yoshio Futagawa Designed by Adolf Loos in his later years, these two houses are twin examples of the architect’s plain, unadorned style of architecture, despite their difference in size and budget. Both Villa Moller (1926–27) in Vienna and Villa Müller (1928–30) in Prague are illustrative of his ‘Raumplan’ design method. Loos applied a utilitarian approach in using the entire floor plan that would only later receive greater appreciation with the advent of postmodernism, an innovative spatialisation comprising sequences of spaces drawn in three dimensions. Photographed by Yoshio Futagawa, the two houses and the spatial brilliance of Loos come to life in an eclectic symbiosis with modernism. Paperback78 pages | color + black-and-white illustrationsText in Japanese and EnglishAda Edita, 201710.28 x 0.47 x 14.49 inchesISBN 9784871405584 Adolf Loos, Modernist Architecture

Residential Masterpieces 25: Adolf Loos Villa Muller / Villa Moller

Edited by Jay A. Clarke and Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt This exhibition catalog considers the work of a pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her bold depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lifes. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity.Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker boldly experimented with styles while steadfastly pursuing the truth of everyday life and her own female experience. This monograph looks at the entire spectrum of her work—figure drawings, still-lifes, self-portraiture, landscape, nudes, and portraits of young girls and old women—to illustrate the evolution of an artist reacting to seismic cultural change at the turn of the nineteenth century. Whether she was embracing or subverting the principles of realism, naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, or expressionism, Modersohn-Becker remained interested in issues of identity, peeling away outer layers to uncover what she understood as the true essence of life. This book features numerous examples of Modersohn-Becker’s striking and relatively unknown drawings of men, women, and children facing poverty, as well as her highly original figure paintings and nudes—including her unprecedented nude self-portraits. Accompanying the first museum exhibition of Modersohn-Becker’s work in the United States, it reveals the deeply personal and authentic work of an artist who resolutely forged her own path. Hardcover208 pagesPrestel, 20249.25 x 11.25 x .75 inchesISBN 9783791377346Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Paula Modersohn-Becker Exhibition Catalogue

Pepin Press’ Watercolour Postcard Books contain 16 cards made of the finest 250 gsm watercolor paper. The paper is acid-free, FSC-certified and quite thick to make the cards suitable for mailing. They are a joy to color with a wide range of techniques, such as watercolor, ink, color pencil, crayon, etc. All the coloring books match the quality the quality of the finest professional coloring pads. In order to get the best results, high-quality colouring materials are recommended. Paperback16 pagesPepin Press, 20244 x 6 inchesISBN 9789460096389Activity Book, Art Nouveau

Gustav Klimt: Watercolor Postcard Book

Pepin Press’ Watercolour Postcard Books contain 16 cards made of the finest 250 gsm watercolor paper. The paper is acid-free, FSC-certified and quite thick to make the cards suitable for mailing. They are a joy to color with a wide range of techniques, such as watercolor, ink, color pencil, crayon, etc. All the coloring books match the quality the quality of the finest professional coloring pads. In order to get the best results, high-quality colouring materials are recommended.Paperback16 pagesPepin Press, 20244 x 6 inchesISBN 9789460096341Activity Book, Post-Impressionism

Vincent Van Gogh: Watercolor Postcard Book

PEPIN Artists’ Coloring Books contain 12 sheets of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines.The printing is done in such a way that, depending on the techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after coloring. The 180 gsm drawing paper is made to Pepin's specifications by one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of coloring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, etc. Also watercolors and liquid inks can be used. Pepin's first-rate paper has a long life and colored sheets can be framed and displayed without the risk of rapid deterioration.These books match the quality of the finest artists’ pads. They are perfectly suited to practice your coloring skills and create beautiful pieces at the same time. High-quality coloring materials are recommended. Paperback 12 pagesPepin Press, 202410 x 13 inchesISBN 9789460098284Activity Book, Coloring Book

Vincent van Gogh: Artists' Coloring Book

An opulent fusion of sensuality, symbolism, and artistic ingenuity, this magnificent boxed-set features stunning color reproductions of Klimt’s essential works in an accordion-fold format accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each painting. Gustav Klimt’s luminous paintings are particularly suited for an accordion-fold presentation. As each painting unfolds into a lavish reproduction, Klimt’s dazzling colors and intricate patterns spring to life. This volume includes several highlights of Klimt’s works including The Kiss, his portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer, The Tree of Life, Danae, and Death and Life. The stunning reproductions allow readers to experience close up Klimt’s intricate details and artful use of gold leaf; his art’s symbolism and emotional power; his decorative aesthetic, and beguiling landscapes. A separate booklet with explanatory captions providing additional background and historic context accompanies the main volume. Klimt’s many fans will cherish this fresh, unique, extraordinary celebration of the artist’s timeless brilliance and monumental talent.Hardcover240 pages | 192 color illustrationsPrestel, 202418,5 x 26,0 cm, 7.3 x 10.2ISBN 9783791377223Monograph, Reproductions

Klimt: The Essential Paintings

By Freyda SpiraThe Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) are considered modernist visionaries. They were also pioneering printmakers, eschewing the mastery of one technique for experimentation across many. Born a generation apart, they worked in an expressionist mode, in which they did not simply replicate what they saw but rather filtered everything through their own imagination and memories. Exploiting the perceptual and emotional power of color and abstraction for creative expression, they portrayed what they perceived to be a fragmented, harrowing reality; both artists endured bouts of anxiety and depression, battled substance abuse, and received psychiatric care. Featuring never-before-published prints from the collection of Nelson Blitz, Jr., and Catherine Woodard, as well as etchings, lithographs, and hand-colored woodcuts from select public and private collections across the United States, this volume puts these two giants of Expressionism in a dialogue that foregrounds issues of mental health and offers a fresh approach that blends art history and the history of medical treatment. The included essays examine the artistic affinities and divergences in their printmaking and the ways in which they used shadows to imagine pathologized psychological and psychiatric experiences in their art.Paperback with flaps192 pages | 99 color imagesYale University Press, 20249 x 12 inchesISBN 9780300275858 Art History, Essays

Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

By Fritz Horstman The essence of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach Interaction of Color is often presented as an overarching theory of color, but it is actually a method of learning how to better see and understand color—many of the color exercises illustrated in Interaction of Color were devised by Albers’s students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers’s own classroom.Focusing on eight of the most important lessons in Interaction of Color, this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers’s original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class. The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while also being readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.Paperback144 pages | 112 color illustrationsYale University Press, 20246 x 9.25 inchesISBN 9780300272437Literature, Education

Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers's Color Experiments

Text by Heather Arnet, Ralf Kemper, Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens, Alice Delage, and Karli Wurzelbacher.German draughtsman George Grosz (1893–1959) created his last major series of paintings and watercolors, the “Stick Men”, beginning in the mid-1940s in reaction to the Holocaust and the other atrocities of the Second World War. The deployment of atomic bombs in Japan and the threat of a Third World War further deepened what the artist termed his “despair, hate and disillusionment.” In his final works, he drew his figures as dehumanized, famished beings aimlessly wandering through a contaminated, post-apocalyptic world. As the first exhibition of the “Stick Men” series following the artists’ death, this catalog contradicts the notion that Grosz had become “soft” and apolitical during his years spent in the United States. Rather, this series is the culmination of the political and artistic convictions of a lifetime of struggle: a timely and relevant legacy even today.Hardcover148 pages | 76 color and 14 black-and-white illustrationsWalther König, 20248 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9783753304403 Artist Monograph, World War II

George Grosz: The Stick Men

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944)Anna with Mirror, 1902 1 blank card and envelope4.25 x 6 inches

Heinrich Kühn: Anna with Mirror, 1902 [Single Card]

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944)Meadow with Trees, 1897 1 blank card and envelope4.25 x 6 inches

Heinrich Kühn: Meadow with Trees, 1897 [Single Card]

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944)Still-Life with Fruit Bowl, 1909 1 blank card and envelope4.25 x 6 inches

Heinrich Kühn: Still-Life with Fruit Bowl, 1909 [Single Card]

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944)Still-Life with Violets, 1908 1 blank card and envelope4.25 x 6 inches

Heinrich Kühn: Still-Life with Violets, 1908 [Single Card]

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944)Study in Tonal Values III (Mary Warner), 1908 1 blank card and envelope4.25 x 6 inches

Heinrich Kühn: Study in Tonal Values III (Mary Warner), 1908 [Single Card]

Edited by Ulrike Groos and Anja Richter Text by Jan Bürger Whether in the visual arts, literature, cinema, science or fashion–in the crises after World War I, the fascination with “types” was largely influenced by a debate that was pervasive in the Weimar period: the search for the “face of the era.” People were looking for new role models, and the portraits by artists of the New Objectivity movement such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel testify to this. Many of the clichéd images, such as those of the “new woman” or the “worker,” however, continue to have an effect in the present, reminding us with their classification of individuals of a problem that lives on in today’s bigotry.A broad spectrum of contributors from art history, medical history, media studies, and sociology venture into a detailed investigation of the historical context of the 1920s and the complex interactions between art and its time. An installation developed especially for the exhibition by contemporary artist Cemile Sahin, born in 1990, spans an arc to the present.FEATURED ARTISTS:Atelier Gerstenberg, Hans Baluschek, Rudolf Bergander, Albert Birkle, Richard Birnstengel, Friedrich Bochmann, Steffi Brandl, Gottfried Brockmann, Friedrich Busack, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Dodo (Dörte Clara Wolff), Erich Drechsler, Kate Diehn-Bitt, Rudolf Dischinger, Otto Dix, Erich Drechsler,Hermann Fechenbach, Conrad Felixmüller, Fred Goldberg, Otto Griebel, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Lea Grundig, Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Hainz Hamisch, Olga Hayduk, Nini und Carry Hess, Heinrich Hoerle, Karl Hubbuch, Lotte Jacobi, Grethe Jürgens, Alexander Kanoldt, Annelise Kretschmer, Bernhard Kretzschmar, Paula Lauenstein, Lotte Lesehr-Schneider, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Jeanne Mammen, Hanna Nagel, Gerta Overbeck, Lotte B. Prechner, Kurt Querner, Anton Räderscheidt, August Sander, Christian Schad, Josef Scharl, Rudolf Schlichter, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, Georg Scholz, Friedrich Seidensticker, Alice Sommer, Cami Stone, Erika Streit, Ernst Thoms, Adolf Uzarski, Kurt Weinhold, Erik Winnertz,Richard Ziegler and Cemile SahinHardcover304 pages | 180 illustrationsHatje Cantz, 2023Text in German and English11.8 x 9.1 inchesISBN 9783775756006New Objectivity, Portraiture

Look at the People!/Sieh Dir Die Menschen An!: The New Objectivity "Type" Portrait in the Weimar Period

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)The Park, 1909Poster for the exhibition Klimt Landscapes.16 x 20 inches

Klimt Landscapes Exhibition Poster

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)Pear Trees (Pear Tree), 1903 (later reworked)

Gustav Klimt: Pear Trees, 1903 [Postcard]

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Sunflower, 1907-08

Gustav Klimt: Sunflower, 1907-08 [Postcard]

This book was featured in our Lecture Series. Translated by Ulrich Baer from the collection edited by Rainer StammIntroduction by Jill LloydThe painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke were two of the most talented and original creative artists at work in early twentieth-century Europe. They enjoyed a close friendship that left in its wake a remarkable series of letters. Encompassing topics such as art, literature, and the nature of marriage, their correspondence testifies to both writers’ brilliant descriptive gifts and penetrating social intelligence. Brought together in English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another provide a fascinating view of everyday life during an exceptionally fertile and exciting period of cultural production.Paperback120 pagesEris Press, 20247.8 x 5.1 inchesISBN 9781916809901Biography, Correspondence, Art History

The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his provocative allegories and for his sensuous portraits of women—commissions of the latter supported him financially for the last twenty years of his career. During the same period, he also devoted considerable energies to contemplative landscapes, which were undertaken during his Sommerfrische (summer holidays) spent in the region near Salzburg renowned for its lakes and alpine terrain. Although these paintings were created purely for Klimt's pleasure, they became among the most sought-after canvases by the artist. Contained in this boxed set are reproductions of six of Klimt's most important landscapes. Completed between 1900 and 1914, these pictures demonstrate the range of the artist's fascination with the locale. He focused on fruiting orchards and reflecting ponds, flowering gardens and blooming meadows, as well as distinct architectural structures situated in bucolic settings. This selection of verdant scenes has a universal appeal, capturing nature at the height of its beauty and affirming Klimt's unique artistic achievements. Images include:The Large Poplar I, 1900Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer, 1912Forester's House in Weissenbach II (Garden), 1914Park at Kammer Castle, 1909Sunflower, 1907-08Poppy Field, 1907 Notecard Box Set:12 square notecards and envelopes2 each of 6 images6 x 6 inches

Gustav Klimt Landscapes Notecard Set

Edited by Janis Staggs As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt’s ornate, exquisitely detailed, and atmospheric landscape paintings.For the last twenty years of his career, Gustav Klimt devoted considerable energy to painting landscapes during his summer vacations—and these bucolic scenes became some of his most sought-after pictures. Filled with vibrant high-quality reproductions and featuring engaging essays by leading scholars in the field, this exhibition catalog situates Klimt’s landscapes alongside fin-de-siècle fashion, photography, and decorative arts of the Wiener Werkstätte in particular. Klimt’s landscapes are examined within the context of his larger oeuvre and traces the evolution of his style: from one informed by the academic tradition, to his ornate “golden style” decorative approach influenced by the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk, and then to a more painterly manner of working in pure color. The book also considers Klimt’s relationship with his muse, fashion designer Emilie Flöge; his deep engagement with the Viennese avant-garde; and the specific techniques he employed to achieve mesmerizing, harmonious works that literally shimmer with light and color. Hardcover344 pagesPrestel, 20249.25 x 1.14 x 11.22 inchesISBN 9783791377360Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Klimt Landscapes Exhibition Catalogue

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)Portrait of Gertha Loew, 1902 (detail) Matte laminate finish2.75” x 8.25”1 bookmark

Gertha Loew Bookmark

By Ralph Jentsch Text by Juerg Judin, Pay Matthis Karstens, Mechthild Hagemann Previously unseen early works from the Weimar Republic's greatest chronicler and satirist. This volume is dedicated to the early life and career of the brilliant young artist Georg Ehrenfried Gross (1893-1959), who would later become known as George Grosz. Known for his politically charged paintings and caricatural depictions of Berlin life in the 1920s, the youthful Gross had a long way to go before changing his name and becoming the most popular and sharp-tongued chronicler of the Weimar Republic. Gross made his first oil paintings in 1912 while still a student, and by 1914 was working in a style deeply influenced by Expressionism, Futurism and popular illustration. Presenting over 50 works made between the years 1904 and 1917, all but a few exhibited for the first time ever, the inaugural exhibition of Das kleine Grosz Museum, and this accompanying catalog, trace the artistic and biographical trajectory of this great artist's journey.Hardcover 178 pages Walther Konig, 20228.25 x 1 x 11 inchesISBN 9783753302041Artist Monograph, Arts & Photography Criticism

Gross Before Grosz: The Early Years

Edited by Julia GarimorthContributions by Vincent Broqua, Brenda Danilowitz, Judith Delfiner and Virginia Gardner TroyThis career-spanning monograph reveals the enormous artistic achievements—both individual and shared—of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Featuring more than two hundred and fifty works, including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles and furniture, this essential volume traces the creative development of Josef and Anni Albers—both instrumental figures in the development of modernism and abstract art. Illustrated profusely throughout, this book features contributions from leading experts in chapters exploring the couple’s relationship and important aspects of their professional partnership, including their meeting at the Bauhaus School and their influential years at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Wide-ranging essays examine topics such as the influence of Pre-Colombian art; Josef’s masterwork Homage to the Square; Anni’s jewelry and works on paper; Josef’s famed classes at Yale University; and Anni’s years as a graphic designer after her husband’s death. Both artists are celebrated for their lasting achievements in their respective fields—Josef for his color theory classes at Yale, Anni for her innovative use of unconventional materials. Readers will come away with an appreciation for the Albers’ experimentation and innovation; their collaboration and teamwork; and their dedication to education and mentorship.Hardcover280 pagesPrestel, 20239.69 x 1.15 x 11.63 inchesISBN 9783791379975 Anni and Josef Albers, German Modernism

Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life

Original Price: $50 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Tobias G. Natter This unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision. Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt’s practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist’s most beloved canvases appeared in situ—in private dining rooms and salons, galleries, museums, and public exhibition spaces. Works such as the portraits of Emilie Flöge and Hermine Gallia, the shocking Nuda Veritas, and landscapes A Morning by the Pond and The Tall Poplar I are presented in double-page spreads. Full-color reproductions of paintings by Klimt are juxtaposed with black-and-white vintage photographs of the original interiors with the featured paintings overlaid in color. Thoughtful and personal texts by Klimt scholar Tobias Natter accompany each spread, providing invaluable contextual insight about how these pictures were conceived as part of the interior design of their respective rooms and spaces, and the passionate collectors who first owned these pictures. Meticulously produced and packaged, this book provides a refreshing perspective on Klimt’s oeuvre and artistic vision. Hardcover140 pagesPrestel, 20239.5 x 1 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783791379784Gustav Klimt, Art History

Gustav Klimt: Interiors

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his provocative allegories, contemplative landscapes, and most of all for his sensuous portraits of women. Klimt himself expressed a special preoccupation with women above all other subjects. Included in this boxed set are reproductions of Klimt's most acclaimed female portraits. Klimt's style matured over the course of his career from ethereal and feminine depictions, to examples in his so-called "golden style," and to later works that show his fascination with color, decorative ornament and his admiration of Asian art. Painted between 1901 and 1918, these pictures capture how his sitters evolved from keepers of the domestic realm to modern women, who embraced life with greater agency and self-determination. Together, they convey a sense of Klimt's obsession with the allure and intrigue of women, and their appreciation of his ability to transform them into icons of feminine beauty and grace. Images include:Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (detail), 1907Portrait of Amalie Zuckerlandl (detail), 1917-18 (unfinished, and possibly started as early as 1913-14)Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (detail), 1914-16The Black Feather Hat (detail), 1910The Dancer (detail), 1916-17 (unfinished)Portrait of Fritza Riedler (detail), 1906Portrait of Gertha Loew (detail), 1902Judith I (detail), 1901 Notecard Box Set:16 notecards and envelopes2 each of 8 images5 x 7 inches

Gustav Klimt Women Notecard Set

By Sue Hubbard“A triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: Masterly, moving and beautifully written.” —Fay WeldonA dazzling novel about groundbreaking artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker—a brilliant early expressionist who toiled under the shadow of her lover Rainer Maria RilkeGirl in White is the extraordinary story of the German expressionist painter Paula Modershohn-Becker (1876-1907), told from the fictionalized perspective of her daughter, Mathilde.Written with the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet this moving story is a meditation on love, loss, memory and, ultimately, hope.Paula Modersohn-Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death. Poet and art critic Sue Hubbard draws on the artist’s diaries and paintings to bring to life her singular existence, her battle to achieve independence and recognition and her intense relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife, and mother.Not only do we discover Paula’s vibrant personality and rich legacy of Expressionist paintings, but also come to understand something of the corrupted ideologies of the Third Reich in a book that’s perfect for fans of books like Georgia by Dawn Tripp and The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer.Paperback320 pagesPushkin Press, 20235 x 7.77 inchesISBN 9781782279129Historical Fiction

Girl in White

Text by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, Megan Brandow-FallerA landmark of graphic modernism, the Vienna Secession’s magazine is brought to life in a complete facsimile reprint with new essays and translationsThe brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Josef Hoffmann, Bertold Löffler and others—the leading graphic artists of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte—Die Fläche (German for The Surface) laid out an extraordinary group vision for design through adventurous work by these designer-professors and more than 100 of their students. Packed with bold ideas for posters, advertisements, book covers, woodcut prints and much more, the result is an inexhaustibly rich sourcebook of graphic forms, modern ideas and technical experiments, all reflecting a reorientation in design practice and teaching that would resonate around the world.This full-size facsimile of all 14 issues of Die Fläche lets readers experience this rare gem as it was meant to be seen, while new essays and translations explore its significance.Die Fläche is the first volume in Letterform Archive’s facsimile series, which presents landmarks of print and design history with exacting reproductions and new essays that provide rich context and fresh insights. Hardcover344 pages | 400 color, 25 black-and-white imagesLetterform Archive Books, 20238.7 x 1.6 x 13.2 inchesISBN 9781736863312Viennese Secession, Graphic Design

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911

Foreword by Wolf Eiermann and Lisa Felicitas MattheisText by Lisa Felicitas Mattheis, Kristina Jaspers, Marek ZydowiczHow expressionism crossed genres in pursuit of the total artwork, from Nolde to MurnauAs a revolutionary cultural movement, Expressionism endeavored to join art and life and diminish the separation between the arts. The Gesamtkunstwerk—the total artwork—became the ideal for artists. Expressionism in Art and Film traces this crossing of genre boundaries, outlining mutual influences between painting, graphics and film. Exaggerated figures, strong contrast and distorted perspective pervaded all three mediums, reflecting the tremendous angst of the early 20th century’s social upheavals. Social critique also figured centrally in the movement, in caricatured depictions of modern men and women. This volume highlights these elements of Expressionism, drawing parallels between art and film. Artists Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Alexander Kanoldt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Mueller figure here, as well as directors Robert Wiene, F.W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch.Hardcover240 pages | 130 color imagesText in English and GermanSilvana Editoriale, 20229.5 x 1 x 11 inchesISBN 9788836650361Expressionism, Art and Film

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