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Edited by Hans-Michael Koetzle Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) is regarded as one of the most important avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. Together with Bauhaus artists such as Lucia Moholy and Florence Henri, she was represented in the pioneering exhibitions of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Then, in 1930, art critic and Biermann’s early patron Franz Roh dedicated to her a legendary monograph designed by Jan Tschichold, Aenne Biermann. 60 Photos. This classic work is now finally being made available once more, accompanied by commentary from photo historian and Biermann expert Hans-Michael Koetzle. As early as 1928, Roh was referring to Biermann as a “remarkable” photo artist who was attracting the attention of experts with her close-up pictures of plants. In the following years, Biermann, an autodidact of photography, became an important artist in photographic modernism. Her works created a haunting and aesthetically fascinating pictorial world filled with close-up views, extreme detail shots, and lighting contrasts. She mostly found her motifs in her immediate vicinity—in addition to the numerous still lifes with everyday objects and nature, she repeatedly photographed her children, their object world, and their activities. Many of these originals were lost during the Second World War, including the sixty photos in this book. Published to mark the Bauhaus jubilee in 2019, this book is an incredible tribute to a great woman artist of the modern age. Paperback104 pages | 61 halftones Hirmer Verlag, 2019 7 x 0.4 x 10 inches ISBN 9783777432427Artist Monograph, Photography, Bauhaus

Aenne Biermann: 60 photos

By Vivian Endicott Barnett “Alexei Jawlensky presents the chronological and thematic development of Jawlensky’s art from early figure painting to landscapes and from still lives to the late iconic portraits and fascinating meditations. An inherently fascinating and exceptionally informative study of a single artists work, influence, and career."―Midwest Book Review Focusing on one of the lesser known Expressionist artists of the Blue Rider movement, this richly illustrated book presents the colorful paintings of Alexei Jawlensky. Alexei Jawlensky (1864–1941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a friend of Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbè, and had close ties to the German Expressionist artists. This book illustrates how the artist was influenced, apart from the German Expressionists, by the art of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and by Ferdinand Hodler. The book presents the chronological and thematic development of Jawlensky’s art from early figure painting to landscapes and from still lives to the late iconic portraits and fascinating meditations. Please note that this book is Out of Stock.Hardcover192 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20179.5 x 0.9 x 11.4 inchesISBN 9783791356389Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Expressionism, Art History, Essays

Alexei Jawlensky Exhibition Catalogue

Edited by Annegret HobergWith contributions by Annegret Hoberg, Klaus Albrecht Schroder, Peter Assmann, Andreas Geyer, Werner Hofmann, and Olaf PetersAlfred Kubin (1877-1959) created drawings that plumb the depths of the shadow world of the human subconscious, with its unguarded impulses and fears. Though a contemporary of artist Gustav Klimt and designer Josef Hoffmann, Kubin eschewed the decorative impulses found in their work. Instead, he produced dark, hallucinatory visions of violence and eroticism.This catalogue accompanied an exhibition that featured more than 100 works on paper. Essays examine the artist’s early career, his status as a literary figure, and his development of a form of Modernism that ran counter to prevailing trends. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover230 pagesNeue Galerie New York Prestel, 200811.5 x 9.4 x 1 inchesISBN 9783791340944Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Illustration, Expressionism, Essays

Alfred Kubin: Drawings 1897-1909 Exhibition Catalogue

By Angie Littlefield and Dorothy RoweEdited by Michael Parke-TaylorAngelika Hoerle (1899–1923) and her artist husband Heinrich Hoerle were protagonists in the Dada movement in Cologne, alongside Max Ernst and Johannes Baargeld. Between 1919 and her tragic death from tuberculosis in 1923, Hoerle built an outstanding oeuvre of Dada collages, caricatures, linocuts and drawings―some of which was acquired by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp's famous Société Anonyme collection, with other works going to the Art Gallery of Toronto, and the rest of which was sadly destroyed by the Nazis as “degenerate art.” Hoerle brought to Cologne Dada's ranks a fully formed Marxist and feminist politics, and when Dada proved too dogmatic to contain her, she and Heinrich formed the breakaway “Stupid Group.” The Comet of Cologne Dada situates Hoerle among the artistic and political ferment of Weimar Germany, as a key figure whose artistic drive and political conscience were unthwartable and exemplary.Paperback128 pagesWalther König, Köln, 2010 7.9 x 0.5 x 9.7 inchesISBN 9783865606310Artist Monograph, Woman Artist, Dada

Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada

By Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, Maria Müller-Schareck “This catalog successfully shows Anni Albers’s role in the development of 20th-century modernism . . . Thoroughly researched and with high quality images that do justice to the color and dimensionality of Albers’s weavings.”—Nancy J. Mactague, Library Journal“[A] compelling argument that Albers is a major artist whose time has come . . . The volume itself is beautifully designed and printed. The essays and, especially, the images of weavings, show Albers as a masterful technician, as well as an artist who could turn her designs into rich and tactile works.”—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post“Filled with stunning images . . . A fascinating glimpse into history, a thought-provoking narrative of the artist once dubbed a ‘reluctant weaver’ who became a fabric virtuoso.”—Alia Jeraj, American Craft Anni Albers (1899–1994), a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, was among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husband, Josef. In this groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated volume, Albers’s most important works are examined to fully explore and redefine her contribution to 20th-century art and design and highlight her significance as an artist in her own right. Featured works—from her early activity at the Bauhaus to her time at Black Mountain College—include wall hangings, designs for commercial use, drawings and studies, jewelry, and prints. Essays by international experts focus on key works and themes and relate aspects of Albers’s practice to her seminal texts: On Designing and On Weaving. Illuminating Albers’s skill as a weaver, her material awareness, and her deep understanding of art and design, this publication celebrates an artist of enormous importance and showcases the timeless nature of her creativity. Hardback192 pagesYale University Press, 20188.4 x 1 x 10.5 inchesISBN 9780300237252 Artist Monographs, Weaving, Textile Design, Women Artists

Anni Albers

By Anni Albers "The chief argument of the book—that the hand-made and mechanically reproduced can happily co-exist—is told visually as well as verbally. . . . [Anni Albers] emerges from the new On Weaving as both a historical figure and a living one."—Charles Darwent, Burlington Magazine"It is over 50 years since On Weaving was first published in 1965, but in this new edition it is as fresh and inspiring as ever. Indeed, the colour plates alone . . . could furnish hours of contemplation."—Cally Brooker, Journal of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers"With enviable clarity, Albers reviews the basics of weaving materials and techniques while threading the history of weaving from Peru and Persia to China, Europe, and beyond. Her emphasis on tactility seems especially urgent today, as she offers the next generation a profound corrective to an increasingly digital monoculture."—Jenny Anger, author of Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art The classic book on the art and history of weaving—now expanded and in full color.Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand.With her focus on materials and handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly important today. Her lucid and engaging prose is illustrated with a wealth of rare and extraordinary images showing the history of the medium, from hand-drawn diagrams and close-ups of pre-Columbian textiles to material studies with corn, paper, and the typewriter, as well as illuminating examples of her own work.Now available for a new generation of readers, this expanded edition of On Weaving updates the book’s original black-and-white illustrations with full-color photos, and features an afterword by Nicholas Fox Weber and essays by Manuel Cirauqui and T’ai Smith that shed critical light on Albers and her career. Hardcover272 pages | 150 color, 28 b/w illustrationsPrinceton University Press, 20179 x 1 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9780691177854Artist Monographs, Weaving, Textile Design, Women Artists

Anni Albers: On Weaving—New Expanded Edition

By Nicholas Fox Weber "This handsome, cloth-bound visual biography celebrates the prolific output and fascinating relationship of Anni and Josef Albers, two pioneers of modern art and design."—Galerie"An ideal gift for the artist couple on your list."—The Strategist"This volume—the first to be fully dedicated to the couple—traces their relationship through rarely seen photographs, collages, paintings and weavings, which form a visual biography of the duo."—The Financial Times, How to Spend ItA spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design.Josef—painter, designer, and teacher—and Anni Albers—textile artist and printmaker are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first— monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely productive period in Connecticut.Accessibly written, the book is packed with more than 750 artworks, archival images, and documents—many published here for the first time—all tracing the remarkable lives and careers of this legendary couple.Dispersed throughout area series of short essays on artists that focuses on the Albers' relationship with a number of important artists and architects of the 20th century, like Ruth Asawa, Marcel Breuer, Merce Cunningham, Philip Johnson, Paul Klee, Jacob Lawrence, and many more.The beautifully cloth-bound package utilizes an elegant color palette and design that speaks to the work of both artists. This comprehensive visual biography showcases the artists’ rich and dynamic lives, and their infinite influence on each other, as they shared the profound conviction that art was central to human existence.Hardcover512 pages | 750 illustrationsPhaidon Press, 202012 x 9.3 inchesISBN 9781838661427Artist Monographs, Textile Design, Design

Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal

By Marie DarrieussecqTranslated by Penny Hueston Lire magazine: Best Book on Art 2016"A biography full of life force, drafted in the present with grace...Dazzling!"―Elle"A magnetic portrait of a woman, taking shape through the seemingly simple, but always so beautiful, writing of Marie Darrieussecq."―Vogue"Darrieussecq’s writing is poetic and stylized; the tableau unfolds sometimes in one-sentence paragraphs and one-word sentences, and always in the present tense. Clearly written for a broad audience, this book will renew appreciation for a deserving artist who’s too often reduced to a mere passing mention in art-history textbooks."―Publishers Weekly The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), a significant figure in modernism. First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is Everything traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse. Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers. Paperback160 pagesSemiotext(e), 20175.4 x 0.4 x 8 inchesISBN 9781635900088Artist Monographs, Biography, Painter, Women Artists

Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

By Andrea JahnRediscovered! Charlotte Berend-Corinth, an unfairly neglected artist.Quite apart from her position as the wife and model of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967) shone as an artist and was, like Käthe Kollwitz, one of the few women members of the Berlin Secession. This monograph is dedicated to this highly gifted, successful, and unfairly neglected artist, presenting an impressive synopsis of her oeuvre. Berend-Corinth pursued a remarkable career with ultra-modern, radical subjects in the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s until she was compelled to leave Germany and to emigrate to the United States due to her Jewish ancestry. Her early work, in which she captured the permissive mood of the Berlin art and theater scene during the 1910s and 1920s, represents one main area of focus, as do the later portraits of famous personalities of her time and some of her remarkable self-portraits, still lifes, and landscape pictures.Hardcover192 pages | 100 color platesText in German and EnglishHirmer, 20226.75 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9783777439396 Monograph, Women Artists

Charlotte Berend-Corinth

Von Thomas Richter Das Werk Christian Schads (1894-1982) ist geprägt von künstlerischem Experimentieren, einer permanenten Auseinandersetzung mit wechselnden Stilen und einem rastlosen Leben mit vielen Auslandsaufenthalten. In den 1920er und 1930er Jahren entstanden die Bilder, die der Gesellschaft der Goldenen Zwanziger schonungslos den Spiegel vorhielten. Es sind diese Hauptwerke der Neuen Sachlichkeit, die besonders in Erinnerung geblieben sind.Hardcover96 SeitanText in GermanWienand Verlag, 20224.96 x 0.59 x 7.32 inchesISBN 9783868325737New Objectivity, Christian Schad

Christian Schad

By David RiedelA new entry in the Great Masters of Art series focusing on one of the most important German Expressionists, Conrad Felixmüller.Conrad Felixmüller (1897–1977) is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the second generation of German Expressionism. This volume illustrates the life and work of this unusual artist, whose creative career reflects more than half a century of art and contemporary history.In January 1919, Felixmüller founded the avant-garde Dresdner Sezession Gruppe 1919, whose members also included Otto Dix and Peter August Böckstiegel, as well as other fellow artists. His works from the early 1920s reflect not only his interest in these people but also his political commitment. Under National Socialism, Felixmüller’s works were proscribed as degenerate. Following the war, he endeavored to continue his work in the GDR, but ten years before his death, Felixmüller moved to West Berlin, where he lived to see his work receive renewed attention and acclaim.Hardcover72 pages | 50 color platesHirmer, 20225.25 x 8 inchesISBN 9783777438245Monograph

Conrad Felixmuller (Great Masters in Art)

Von Wolfgang Meighörner Albin Egger-Lienz hat uns einige der eindrucksvollsten künstlerischen Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dessen Folgen hinterlassen. Vergleichbares findet sich im deutschsprachigen Raum nur bei Otto Dix. Wie bei Egger-Lienz hat der Kriegseinsatz seine künstlerische Entwicklung beflügelt. Kriegskrüppel und Prostituierte bevölkern Bilder von ungeahnter Brutalität. Zynisch, kritisch und schonungslos durchleuchten sie das Elend der 1920er-Jahre. Namhafte Autoren tragen mit ihren Essays dazu bei, ein anderes Licht auf die Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu werfen - mit überraschenden Ergebnissen. Hardcover360 pagesText in GermanHirmer, 20198.6 x 1.5 x 10.5 inchesISBN 9783777432496Artist Monograph, Painting, New Objectivity

Egger-Lienz und Otto Dix: Bilderwelten zwischen den Kriegen

By Diethard Leopold Few modern artists have such a following today as Egon Schiele (1890–1918), who in his short life created numerous works that draw in casual viewers and dedicated art lovers alike. Though he enjoyed some success during his lifetime, it wasn’t until the early 1950s that his lasting importance began to be widely appreciated. This book offers striking reproductions of works from each of Schiele’s creative periods, revealing an artists who captivates the viewer with emotional subjects and technical ingenuity in equal measure. Accompanying those artworks are selections from the rich trove of documents Schiele left behind, including his little-known existential poetry. Hardcover80 pagesHirmer Publishers, 20175.8 x 0.5 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783777428529Artist Monograph, Painting

Egon Schiele (The Great Masters of Art)

By Rudolf Leopold Now available in an updated edition, this visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele brings to light a lesser-known aspect of this famous painter's oeuvre. Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schiele was also interested in portraying the beauty and structure of the world he inhabited. In fact, Schiele’s paintings of the countryside and his native Vienna comprise a large proportion of his body of work. Nearly one hundred of the artist’s landscapes are exquisitely reproduced in this handsome book and presented alongside photographs of the scenes he depicted, taken from the vantage point of the original works. This volume proves that Schiele’s mastery extends beyond his radical renditions of the human figure and reveals themes that appear throughout his work. Schiele’s landscapes represent an important facet of his career and are a valuable contribution to the school of European nature painting. Paperback208 pagesPrestel; Reissue Edition, 20177.9 x 0.8 x 9.7 inchesISBN 9783791383460Artist Monographs, Painting, Landscape

Egon Schiele Landscapes

Edited by Alessandra CominiThis book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance.Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A superb draftsman and colorist, he produced images of startling emotional power. Following the lead of his mentor, Gustav Klimt, Schiele created figurative works of uncanny intimacy and brought a new openness to the art of his time. Schiele’s premature death at the age of 28 has added a mythic quality to his artistic achievements.Egon Schiele: Portraits focuses on five groupings of the artist's work: family and academy, fellow artists, sitters and patrons, lovers, and allegory. In addition, it features a special section on a traumatic and pivotal period in Schiele's life: his arrest and imprisonment during the summer of 1912. Documenting the artist's changing style, both pre- and post-imprisonment, the book features many key works that have been assembled for this exhibition from both American and European museums and private collections.Hardcover296 pages | 227 color; 72 black-and-white-illustrationsNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20149.3 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791354194Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Painting, Drawings, Portraits

Egon Schiele Portraits Exhibition Catalogue

This title will be available soonBy Alessandra Comini “The best book on the Viennese wunderkind so far and maybe forever.”―John Canaday, The New York Times Book ReviewEgon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years--dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end--he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was simultaneously plumbing with such unsettling results. The disturbing revelations of Schiele's unmasking portraiture and of the new science of psychology disclosed a collective cultural anxiety during the last years of the crumbling Austrian empire. As a seer into the souls of his sitters, Schiele redefined portraiture in the age of Angst. This new edition features a new introduction by the author.Paperback568 pagesSunstone Press, 20148.5 x 1.2 x 11 inchesISBN 9781632930125Artist Monograph, Painting, Drawings, Portraits

Egon Schiele's Portraits

Egon Schiele usually carried a small sketchbook with him, jotting down his compositional ideas and other personal notions on the go. This facsimile edition provides unusual insight into the artist's mind and working methods. Twenty-two of these small scale sketchbooks are known to have survived. Most of them are now preserved in the Egon Schiele Archiv of the Albertina in Vienna. The one reproduced here includes sketches for a number of important paintings from this period. In addition to the numerous drawings relating to Schiele’s artistic oeuvre, there are several architectural sketches among the pages. There are also fashion sketches, miscellaneous notations, addresses, and calculations. A reproduction based on the original from the Serge Sabarsky collection. Limited edition, numbered set of 1000 Neue Galerie exclusive Limited Edition, Drawing

Egon Schiele's Sketchbook 1910-1913

By Tobias G. NatterAfter Egon Schiele (1890–1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur, this didn’t prove to be too big a challenge.His haggard, overstretched figures, extreme depiction of sexuality and self-portraits, in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt’s hymns of love, sexuality and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele’s work spoke of a brutal honesty, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.Although his works were later defamed as “degenerate” and for a time were almost forgotten altogether, they influenced generations of artists—from Günter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today, his then misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.This monograph, first published in an XL edition, is now available in a slightly abridged, more compact edition to celebrate TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary and features the paintings and drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele’s life. These works are accompanied by essays introducing his life and oeuvre, situating the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and charting his extraordinary legacy.Hardcover512 pagesTaschen, 20208.8 x 1.7 x 6.5 inchesISBN 9783836581257Artist Monographs

Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Anniversary Edition

By Rudolph Leopold One of the most lavishly illustrated collections of Egon Schiele’s work ever published, presented in an updated new edition. In 1972, Austrian collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) published a landmark catalog raisonné of the work of painter Egon Schiele (1890–1918). Long out of print, Leopold’s book now returns in an updated new edition that will introduce the next generation of art lovers to the work of one of Gustav Klimt’s most talented protégés, known for his arresting self-portraits, sexually charged figure drawings, and haunting industrial landscapes. In addition to the color prints of Schiele’s paintings and drawings, this book provides insight into the artist’s life through letters, sketches, and documents, from his adolescence as an art student in fin de siècle Vienna to his death from flu after the close of World War I. Egon Schiele presents Schiele’s paintings, watercolors, and drawings chronologically in large-format color plates, providing a comprehensive overview of the many works Schiele completed in his short life.Hardcover736 pages | 931 illustrationsHirmer Publishers, 202211.8 x 11.8 x 2.3 inchesISBN 9783777440323 Artist Monographs

Egon Schiele. Catalogue Raisonne. Third Edition.

By Tobias G. Natter “Schiele fans, especially those with capacious bookcases, will love it.”—The Spectator, London“Schiele’s daringly explicit drawings are so immaculately reproduced that you could cut them out and frame them.”—The Times, LondonOver the course of his short life, Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918) blazed a turbulent Expressionist trail. A child prodigy, young rebel, and chronic provocateur, he caused uproar among the establishment with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and explicit eroticism and continues to startle to this day with his unflinching images of himself and his nude subjects.In this expansive XXL-format book, we survey the complete catalogue of Schiele paintings from his most innovative and prolific decade between 1909 and 1919. The 221 featured works reveal how the artist reveled in stylistic freedom and shock, abandoning classical figuration for a distorted and exaggerated physicality that rendered emotional and sexual truth. His subjects are elongated, angular, and twisted. With protruding ribs, contorted limbs, and sickly skin, the body becomes a locus of anguish. The only reprieve is the promise of sex. Like no other early 20th-century artist, Schiele laid genitalia bare, bringing some of the most candid renderings of the vagina in Western art history, as well as scenes of masturbation and lesbian sex.These startling works are presented alongside biographical details, expert insights, as well as Schiele’s own writings and poems, offering intimate access to the ideas behind his work and his extraordinary legacy through countless 20th-century masters, from Francis Bacon and Otto Muehl to Julian Schnabel, David Bowie, and Tracey Emin. Hardcover612 pagesTaschen, 201718 x 3 x 12 inchesISBN 9783836546126Artist Monograph, Painting, Drawing, Portraits, Landscapes

Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909–1918

Edited by Renée Price While his explicit nudes and self-portraits created controversy in Europe and America, his skill as a draftsman and his artistic passion unquestionably made Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. In addition to presenting superb reproductions of the more than 150 paintings and drawings in the exhibition, this catalogue traces the history of Schiele's reception in the American art world. It offers fascinating information concerning Schiele collectors, promoters, critics, and followers, as well as the exhibitions, public acquisitions, publications, and other projects that have taken place in the United States. Essays pertaining to Schiele's life in Austria, the lost Schiele collections, and the censorship of the artist during and after his lifetime round out this stunning volume. Please note that this book is Out of Stock. 504 pagesHardcoverISBN 978-37913-33908Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections

With essays by Christian Ring and Hans-Joachim Throl German-Danish painter and print-maker Emil Nolde (1865–1956) was one of the first and most important representatives of expressionism, as well as an essential precursor of modernism. First trained as a woodcarver, he later studied painting and developed the vigorous brushwork and vivid choice of colors for which he is best known—and which would make him one of the great oil and watercolor painters of the twentieth century. His works, including The Prophet and Portrait of a Young Woman and a Child, are exhibited in major museums around the world.Produced in close collaboration with the Nolde Foundation in Germany, Emil Nolde illuminates the artist’s life and provides extended discussions of his key works. As they trace Nolde’s path from a small village in Denmark to his evolution into a prestigious artist, noted Nolde experts Christian Ring and Hans-Joachim Throl explore Nolde’s world of color—as seen in his paintings of gardens, landscapes, and seas—and consider his use of the fantastic and grotesque in his work. They also examine his life during the Nazi regime, when his work was condemned and removed from museums and he was forbidden to paint, and his subsequent creation of the Unpainted Pictures, a gorgeous and diverse series of watercolors he created in seclusion between 1938 and 1945.Supplemented by rarely seen documents from Nolde’s archive and complemented by fifty-five color images, Emil Nolde sheds new light on the artist, his life in the German-Danish borderlands, and his prolific production of outstanding works. Hardcover71 pagesHirmer Verlag, 20175.8 x 0.5 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783777427744Artist Monograph, Expressionism, Painting, Printmaking

Emil Nolde

Edited by Manfred Reuther and Christian RingEmil Nolde (1867-1956) devoted as much time and care to his prints as to his paintings. Drawing on the massive collection of the Nolde Stiftung, The Painter’s Prints surveys his etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, and his various suites in each medium. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover152 pages47 color and 56 b&w illustrationsText in English and GermanDuMont, 20130.8 x 9.8 x 11.8 inchesISBN 9783832194666Artist Monograph, Printmaking, Expressionism

Emil Nolde: The Painter's Prints

Edited by Fabienne Eggelhofer, Nina Zimmer, and Christian RingText by Astrid Becker and Nora LohnerPublished on the occasion of the ­ex­hibition Emil Nolde at Zentrum Paul Klee, this volume includes the first ever collection of correspondence between the Nolde and Klee couples, in addition to ­illustrations of the works on show. Any encounter with the unknown ­seemed to always inspire Emil Nolde's artistic work. In his oeuvre there are great number references to the grotesque, the ­fantastic and the exotic—a fascination he shared with Paul Klee. Grotesques enabled both to critically ­comment on contemporary events. Fantastic ­depictions in Nolde's work stem from the ­serious examination of the unknown and uncanny and, ­accordingly, take a central position in his work. In Paul Klee's work, the realm of ghosts, ­demons, and other hybrid beings rather serve a kind of ­edi­fication. For Nolde as well as for Klee and many of their contemporaries, exotic motifs formed a new inspiring vocabulary of forms, which helped them transcend the restrictions of the European tradition. The volume at hand presents works by Nolde that until now might have been only of ­marginal interest to the art world—but were of great ­importance to the artist and thus deserve our full attention. This ­research on the written communication between the two artist friends and their families fills an ­academic void and sheds light on heretofore unknown aspects of a mutually inspiring friendship.Paperback248 pagesText in German and EnglishSnoeck Publishing Company, 20198.46 x 0.71 x 11.02 inchesISBN 9783864422508Monograph, Correspondence

Emil Nolde: Vetter der Tiefe mit der Korrespondenz Nolde – Klee

Edited by Jill Lloyd and Ulf Kuster Ferdinand Hodler’s emotionally loaded landscapes and ritualized portraits were among the earliest harbingers of Expressionist painting in Europe, and a key bridge between the idioms of late-nineteenth-century Symbolism, Realism and modernist Expressionism. This volume gathers a selection of Hodler’s best-loved work: his famous late paintings, in which figures are heavily stylized and landscapes are pared down to simple effects of mood and color; his outstanding works on paper; and the much-acclaimed, extremely moving series of works chronicling the illness and early death of the artist’s lover, Valentine Godé-Darel. A documentary section reproduces letters, sketchbooks and photographs that illuminate the relationship between Hodler and Godé-Darel. Central to this publication is the role that series and variations play throughout Hodler’s oeuvre--most famously in his groups of figures arranged in ritualized poses, a style to which he gave the name “Parallelism.” This volume reveals Hodler both as a painter of great emotional intensity and as a crucial progenitor of the Expressionist worldview. Please note that this book is Out of Stock. Hardcover240 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkHatje Cantz, 20129.5 x 1 x 11.4 inchesISBN 9783775733809Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Artist Monograph, Essays, Painting

Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity

By Andreas Kilcher and Pavel Schmidt Contributions by Judith Butler Translated by Kurt Beals The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings “A sensational new book [that] reveals these hitherto hidden artworks for the first time . . . This valuable volume allows us to see how, for Kafka, word and image walk arm in arm.”—Benjamin Balint, Jewish Review of Books The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) were found in a private collection that for decades had been kept under lock and key. Until now, only a few of Kafka’s drawings were widely known. Although Kafka is renowned for his written work, his drawings are evidence of what his literary executor Max Brod termed his “double talent.” Irresistible and full of fascinating figures, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny, and the carnivalesque, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. Kafka’s drawings span his full career, but he drew most intensively in his university years, between 1901 and 1907. An entire booklet of drawings from this period is among the many new discoveries, along with dozens of loose sheets. Published for the first time in English, these newly available materials are collected with his known works in a complete catalogue raisonné of more than 240 illustrations, reproduced in full color. Essays by Andreas Kilcher and Judith Butler provide essential background for this lavish volume, interpreting the drawings in their own right while also reconciling their place in Kafka’s larger oeuvre.Hardcover368 pagesYale University Press, 20228.31 x 1.38 x 11.77 inchesISBN 9780300260663Artist Monograph, Modernism

Franz Kafka: The Drawings

By Vivian Endicott Barnett, Erich Franz, Ursula Heiderich, Annegret Hoberg, Isabelle Jansen, and Olaf PetersForeword by Ronald S. Lauder and Renée Price. This generously illustrated volume focuses on the poignant friendship of Franz Marc and August Macke, two innovative members of the Blue Rider group. During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact on each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduced images that bring their paintings—and the bond they shared—to life. In addition to paintings, watercolors, and drawings from both artists, this book includes documents that show their connection to one another. A series of essays explores the artists’ conversations about color theory and non-representational painting, their work with the Blue Rider group, their joint mural Paradise, and the influence of French painters on their art. This book also reveals how 20th-century Expressionism evolved during Marc and Macke’s collaboration. While celebrating the two men’s obvious differences, this volume shows how their distinct artistic styles influenced one another. Hardcover 208 pages | 159 color and 23 black-and-white illustrations Neue Galerie New York Prestel, 2018 9.5 x 1 x 11.5 inches ISBN 9783791358291 Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Painting, Art History, Essays, Blue Rider

Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914 Exhibition Catalogue

Edited by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Christian Philipsen, and Thomas Bauer-FriedrichFranz Marc ist einer der bedeutendsten expressionistischen Maler. Parallel zu seinem großen malerischen und grafischen Oeuvre hat der Künstler eine kleine, aber beeindruckende Werkgruppe aus sechzehn Plastiken und Skulpturen geschaffen, die besonders sein großes Interesse an Tierdarstellungen widerspiegelt. Seine bekannteste Plastik, Zwei Pferde, entsteht 1909, während er seinen ersten und wichtigsten theoretischen Text? Über das Tiermotiv in der Kunst? schreibt. In diesem Band werden die Arbeiten aus Wachs, Marmor, Sandstein, Kalkstein und Bronze in großformatigen Abbildungen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven gezeigt und durch Texte zur Entstehung, Ästhetik und Sammlungsgeschichte ergänzt. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover91 pagesText in GermanWienand Verlag & Medien, 20208.3 x 10.6 inchesISBN 9783868326109Museum Collection, Sculpture

Franz Marc. Skulptur und Plastik: Katalog zur Ausstellung im Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See und Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle

Von Kay Heymer und Jürgen Weichardt Original Price: $31.37 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Der Maler Franz Radziwill (1895-1983) entwickelte eine einzigartige Bildsprache, zu deren Merkmalen ein unverkennbarer Umgang mit Fläche gehört. Mit avantgardistischem Anspruch setzt Radziwill Figuren und Gegenstände in rhythmisch gesetzte Farbflächen. Im Zuge der Neuen Sachlichkeit hebt Radziwill die Flächigkeit durch bildparallele Darstellungen hervor. Im Spätwerk kombinierte er häufig räumliche Darstellung und flächenhafte Gestaltung. Ab 1950 integriert er Schachbrettmuster und Gitterstrukturen in seine Bildräume. Auf diese Weise werden abwechselnd Räumlichkeit als auch Zweidimensionalität der Fläche als Träger der Farbe wahrnehmbar. Mit dieser Bildkonzeption verknüpft Radziwill Moderne mit Tradition. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover88 pagesText in GermanKerber Verlag; Auflage: 1, 20188.5 x 0.6 x 9.6 inchesISBN 9783735604118Artist Monographs, Painting, Still-Lifes

Franz Radziwill: Fläche wird Bild

By Sabine RewaldA penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works.This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history.Hardcover180 pages | 115 color illustrationsYale University Press, 20228.5 x 10 inchesISBN 9781588397546Monograph

George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye

By Wilfried RogaschAn overview of Gustav Klimt’s life and work commemorating the 160th anniversary of the artist’s birth.Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) is an artist particularly associated with Viennese Jugendstil and the “Golden Age.” As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable ladies, and as an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant terrible and the darling of Viennese society. The creator of icons of art history like The Kiss and his portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Klimt focused his oeuvre on the representation of the feminine in all its facets. After the turn of the century, he developed his inimitable “Golden Style,” in which he shows his models in precious robes and an ornamental fusion with the picture background. Yet, this volume shows that Gustav Klimt’s complex oeuvre extends beyond these popular paintings. Beginning with Klimt’s early works, whose formal language was still based on the tradition of historicism, the book discusses Klimt’s Faculty pictures which were produced during a time when his style was changing, so that even their preliminary sketches caused a scandal. The book thus illuminates Klimt as both a symbolic figure and a progressive artist of the Vienna Secession at the same time it reveals the artistic development that led to his status as such.Hardcover72 pages, 55 color platesHirmer Publishers, 20225.5 x 0.9 x 8 inchesISBN 9783777439792Artist Monograph, Viennese Secession

Gustav Klimt

By Tobias G. Natter“Guaranteed to work up a fervour.”—Harpers Bazaar, London A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt’s major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged archival material from Klimt’s own archive to trace the evolution of his astonishing oeuvre.With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous “golden phase” when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold. Hardcover672 pagesTaschen, 20185.8 x 1.8 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9783836562904Artist Monograph, Drawing, Painting, Secession Movement

Gustav Klimt, Drawings and Paintings

By Norbert Wolf Now available in a new edition, this intimate book captures the sensual pleasure of an artist’s sketchbook as well as the genius behind Gustav Klimt’s vision of women. Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist’s sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt’s most beautiful erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing them will awaken the senses and afford the reader the guilty pleasure of leafing through an artist’s most private visions. Hardcover64 pagesPrestel Publishing, 20177.6 x 0.5 x 9.3 inchesISBN 9783791383897Artist Monograph, Drawing, Figurative

Gustav Klimt: Erotic Sketchbook

By Stephan KojaNow available again, this visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt’s landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter’s oeuvre.While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbol laden portraits of the Viennese bourgeoisie, these works were just one aspect of his artistic expression. His landscapes represent an important facet of his career and are a valuable contribution to the school of European nature painting. For many years the artist travelled to the Austrian and Italian countryside during the summer, where he took advantage of the extraordinary light and spectacular hues to paint and sketch landscapes. Among the most exquisite of Klimt’s landscapes are those in which he experimented with composition and style. Accompanied by scholarly essays, the images reproduced in this book comprise all extant landscapes from this brilliant artist, proving that his mastery extends beyond portraiture and revealing themes that appeared throughout his life’s work.Paperback224 pages | 215 color and 70 black-and-white illustrationsPrestel, 20197.9 x 9.8 inches ISBN 9783791385440Landscape Painting

Gustav Klimt : Landscapes

Von Sandra Tretter und Peter Weinhäupl (Hg.) Die Klimt-Foundation widmet den vierten Band der Edition Klimt der sinnlich-emotionalen Naturverbundenheit des Malers. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) führte zeit seines Lebens einen künstlerischen Dialog mit den Formen und Farben der Natur. Üppig tragende Obstbäume, blühende Wiesen und mystiche Waldeinblicke charakterisieren sein florales Werk und spiegeln wohl auch seine tatsächliche Sehnsucht wider - nach einem sorgenfreien, genussvollen Leben im zauberhaften Gartenparadies, das "einem Sternenhimmel gleicht". Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet - vor dem Hintergrund des "blühenden" Jugendstils und der Gartenbewegungen um 1900 - Klimts sensible Auseinandersetzung mit der Welt der Blumen, Bäume und Blüten, ausgehend von seinen frühen realistischen Waldansichten hin zu den moderngewagten Bildausschnitten der berühmten Attersee-Landschaften und Gartenbildnisse bis zu den späten Porträts mit floralem Dekor. Inspiriert durch österreichische Wegbereiter und internationale Strömungen fand der Jugendstilkünstler seinen charakteristischen Stil. Vor allem aber bereicherten der Hinterhofgrünraum seines Josefstädter Ateliers, der verwunschene Künstlergarten im Biedermeieratelier in Hietzing und sein motivisch ausgiebigster "Sehnsuchtsort" Attersee Klimts Kunstnatur. Paperback155 pagesText in GermanBrandstätter Verlag, 201920.3 x 1.5 x 20.4 cmISBN 9783710601163Artist Monograph, Landscape Painting

Gustav Klimt: Florale Welten

By Alfred Werner and Gustav KlimtGustav Glück, director of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, wrote as early as 1922 of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) that his drawings were perhaps his ultimate artistic achievement. This founder of Secessionsstil and leader of the revolt against the Viennese academies was able to achieve greater freedom in his drawings than in his more laboriously executed paintings. While there are only about two hundred completed oils, the drawings number in the thousands, and are reported to have at times quite littered his studio. He himself considered them finished works, and often exhibited them alongside his paintings.Klimt's subject matter is almost exclusively the female body, naked or half clothed. For this he earned the reputation of erotic artist, and while he did not suffer the outright persecutions of his successors Schiele and Kokoschka, he was nevertheless subjected to the trials that a frankly erotic artist had to undergo in Vienna, where the everyday subject of conversation was the current love affairs of celebrities but where audiences were shocked by the sight of a dancer's naked legs. An issue of Ver Sacrum which reproduced one of his drawings was confiscated by the authorities. The drawings reveal above all that concern of great draughtsmen from Michelangelo through Blake the marriage of subtle grace and expressive dynamism that is the human body. Like that of these two past masters, Klimt's method is essentially linear. He knew, as they did, that line, rather than shading, the creation of volume or the use of color, is the natural medium for expressing the freedom of the living human form. As he matured as an artist there was an increasing awareness of this and a greater and greater spontaneity that approached, finally, "the lightness of a net of gauze." Paperback128 pagesDover Publications, 19729.2 x 0.5 x 12.2 inchesISBN 9780486224466Artist Monograph, Drawing, Figurative Art

Gustav Klimt: One Hundred Drawings

By Tobias G. Natter “Guaranteed to work up a fervour.”—Harpers Bazaar, London"...one of the most covetable books ever. The reproductions are breathtakingly good, as are the excellent essays and commentaries on paintings."—The Sunday Times Magazine, LondonA century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt’s major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist’s archive.With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous “golden phase” when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold.Through luminous spreads and carefully curated details, the monograph traces the repertoire of Japanese, Byzantine, and allegorical stimuli that informed Klimt’s flattened perspectives, his symbolic vocabulary, and his mosaic-like textures. Drawing upon contemporary critics and voices, the book also examines the art world’s polarized reception to Klimt’s pictures as much as his own stylistic trajectory. From his landscape painting to erotic works to the controversial ceiling for the Great Hall of the University of Vienna, we see how Klimt’s admixture of tradition and daring divided the press and public—becried by some as a pornographer, hailed by others as a modern maestro. Hardcover676 pagesTaschen, 201218 x 12.5 x 3 inchesISBN 9783836527958Artist Monographs, Viennese Secession

Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings

By Tobias G. Natter “Never have there been such illustrations. . . that give us the grain of canvas and every precious decorative element in the stupendous mosaics of the Palais Stoclet, the Sistine Chapel of Secessionism.”—The Evening Standard, London A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt’s major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist’s archive. With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous “golden phase” when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold.Through luminous spreads and carefully curated details, the monograph traces the repertoire of Japanese, Byzantine, and allegorical stimuli that informed Klimt’s flattened perspectives, his symbolic vocabulary, and his mosaic-like textures. Drawing upon contemporary critics and voices, the book also examines the art world’s polarized reception to Klimt’s pictures as much as his own stylistic trajectory. From his landscape painting to erotic works to the controversial ceiling for the Great Hall of the University of Vienna, we see how Klimt’s admixture of tradition and daring divided the press and public—becried by some as a pornographer, hailed by others as a modern maestro. Hardcover604 pagesTaschen, 20179.8 x 13.4 x 2 inchesISBN 9783836566612Artist Monographs, Painting, Drawing, Viennese Secession

Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings (2nd edition)

Von Cornelia Gerner Hannah Höch (1889–1978) zählt zu den zentralen Persönlichkeiten der Klassischen Moderne, ihr Collagen-Werk zu den Höhepunkten des Dada. Kurz vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs erwirbt die von den Nationalsozialisten als „Kulturbolschewistin“ diffamierte Künstlerin im Dorf Heiligensee im nördlichsten Berliner Bezirk Reinickendorf ein kleines Haus, das zum Refugium und Ort der inneren Emigration wird. Der selbst gestaltete Garten dient als Überlebenshilfe sowie Quell der Inspiration. Die vorliegende Publikation nimmt 70 Werke aus der Sammlung des Museum Reinickendorf zum Anlass, 40 Jahre Leben und Schaffen der Künstlerin in Heiligensee vorzustellen. Hannah Höch is one of the key protagonists of Dada in Berlin. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the artist, who had been defamed by the Nazis as a ‘cultural Bolshevist’‚ purchased a small house in Heiligensee in the north of Berlin, which became a place of refuge and inner emigration. With seventy works from the collection of the Museum Reinickendorf, the present publication sheds light on forty years in the life and work of the artist in Heiligensee. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover219 pagesText in GermanMuseum Reinickendorf: Wienand, 20189 x 1 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9783868324525Artist Monographs, Women Artists, Dada, Photomontage

Hannah Höch. Von Heiligensee in die Welt

Edited by Monika Faber This unique volume focuses on the luminous work of an important Austrian photographer. Heinrich Kühn’s early Pictorialist works were highly influential, and were exhibited at the Vienna Secession. Gradually, Kühn incorporated the influence of his peers, and moved in the direction of Modernist photography. He was also among the first important photographers to create color images. The publication aims to situate Kühn with regard to both the Viennese avant-garde and the international development of photography as an art form. It explores the close friendship among Kühn and major photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen and showcases photographic prints and autochromes by Kühn and other important photographers. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover132 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 201211.4 x 9.6 x 0.7 inchesISBN 9783791351964Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Viennese Secession

Heinrich Kühn and his American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen

By Josef Albers Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber “One of the most important books on color ever written.”—Michael Hession, Gizmodo “Interaction of Color with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains an indispensable blueprint to the art of seeing. . . . An essential piece of visual literacy.“—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’ unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers’s contribution to color theory and brings the artist’s iconic study to an eager new generation of readers. Josef Albers, one of the most influential artist-educators of the twentieth century, was a member of the Bauhaus group in Germany during the 1920s. In 1933 he came to the United States, where he taught at Black Mountain College for sixteen years. In 1950 he joined the faculty at Yale University as chairman of the Department of Design. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Albers was the first living artist ever to be given a solo retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Paperback193 pages | 40 color illustrations, 16 line drawingsYale University Press, 2013Originally published in 19636 x 0.6 x 9.2 inchesISBN 9780300179354Artist Monographs, Art History, Color Theory

Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition

By Josef Albers Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber"The magnificent presentation of this edition will continue to make this book indispensable to the next generation of art students and teachers alike."—Douglas F. Smith, Berkeley Public Library, Library Journal"Josef Albers' Interaction of Color stands alone among color theory books: a classic that never fails to surprise with its continued relevance."—ImprintOne of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silk-screened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers’ unique approach to complex principles.While the original publication has long been out of print, this beautiful new edition now brings Interaction back into classrooms, studios, and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. Lavishly produced as a two volume slip-cased set, this book replicates Albers’s revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are new studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist’s students in the early 1960s.A celebration of Albers’s legendary achievements, this beautiful publication is an essential addition to any serious art library.Hardcover cloth-bound144 pages, 2-volume set | 6 black-and-white, 145 color illustrationsYale University Press, 200916.6 x 12 x 2.6 inchesISBN 9780300146936Artist Monographs, Color Theory

Interaction of Color: Complete Edition

Edited by Christoph Wagner The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, and he left behind an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre. Creating paintings and graphic works to sculptures, textiles, and furniture, Itten was an unusually versatile artist who also produced one of the most important works on the theory of colors in the twentieth century. His art is examined here in depth for the first time through an analysis built on more than one hundred thousand biographical documents and sources. Published to coincide with the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first in a three-volume series that will explore the latest provenance research, compile an index of exhibitions and literature, and provide for the first time a complete overview of the artistic cosmos of Johannes Itten.In total all three volumes reproduce more than three thousand works and expand Itten’s oeuvre by more than one thousand works compared with the previous catalogue raisonné published in 1972. Hardcover496 pagesHirmer Publishers, 201910.5 x 12.5 inchesISBN 9783777431673Artist Monograph, Color Theory, Bauhaus

Johannes Itten: Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1907-1938

Foreword by David Cleaton-RobertsTexts by Brenda Danilowitz and Jeannette Redensek Josef Albers was one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists, teachers, and theorists of art. Alongside teaching at the Bauhaus school in Germany and later at Black Mountain College and Yale University in the United States, he created seminal work in diverse mediums from painting and printmaking to furniture design and stained glass. His lifelong explorations into form, vision, and the processes of making art led to his ground-breaking Homage to the Square paintings and confirmed his reputation as a leading proponent of abstraction. This publication considers Albers’s early development as an artist, beginning with the pre-Bauhaus years when he worked as an elementary-school teacher in his native Bottrop in north-west Germany, while sketching the landscape and architecture of his home town and studying courses in art by night. Focusing on his prints and other works on paper, the book reveals not only the unappreciated naturalistic origins of his art, but also his ongoing interest in producing organic, surrealistic forms alongside the geometric abstraction for which he is best known. It presents dozens of prints, paintings, and drawings from the first half of his career, as well as previously unseen photographs of the artist at work and on research trips to the ancient sites of Mexico where he found important sources of inspiration for his art and theories. With texts by two recognized Albers scholars, this volume offers a fresh and surprising view of a celebrated pioneer of modernism.Hardcover160 pages | 158 illustrationsArt/Books, 20228.2 x 10.5 x 0.8 inchesISBN 9781908970572Modernism, Artist Monograph

Josef Albers: Discovery and Invention – The Early Graphic Works

By Jeffrey Saletnik “This very important study offers a new understanding of the significant impact that Josef Albers’s artistic and pedagogical commitments had on key figures of the ‘postminimalist’ generation of American artists, such as Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. Most importantly, perhaps, its wide-ranging analysis radically questions the rigid distinctions commonly made between the closures of a modernist commitment to form and the experimental ethos of process-orientated art.”—Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan An incisive analysis of the pedagogy of influential artist and teacher Josef Albers. An extraordinary teacher whose influence continues today, Josef Albers helped shape the Bauhaus school in Germany and established the art and design programs at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Yale University. His books about color theory have informed generations, and his artworks are included in the canon of high-modernist non-representational art. The pedagogy Albers developed was a dynamic approach to teaching that transcended the modernist agendas and cultivated a material way of thinking among his students. With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn are manifested in their individual practices. Tracing through lines from Albers’s training in German educational traditions to his influence on American postwar art, Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form positions Albers’s pedagogy as central to the life of modernism.Hardcover320 pages | 53 color plates and 87 halftonesUniversity of Chicago Press, 20227 x 10 inchesISBN 9780226699172Monograph, Josef Albers

Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

By Charles Darwent “A meticulously researched, elegantly written, and generously illustrated biography of an artist whose personality was as enigmatic as his art…Darwent deftly characterizes the outsized egos and philosophical and petty rivalries that roiled the Bauhaus…An authoritative and sensitive portrait of a modern master.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A gripping biography of a German artist unjustly pigeonholed as the creator of interminable variations of pictures of squares…Darwent draws extensively on Albers’s previously unpublished writings and drawings to fully capture the artist’s life…Sympathetic and generously illustrated.”―Publishers Weekly Drawing on extensive unpublished archival writings, documents, and illustrations, this is the first full-scale biography of one of the 20th-century’s great artists. In his accessible study of the “whole” Albers, Charles Darwent combats the fables while telling the fascinating story of an artist, friend, and intellectual. Among Albers’s unpublished papers are letters from friends John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, as well as fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. If his network of influence was surprisingly wide, so too, were his interests. He started life at the Bauhaus as a glass-maker and went on to create fonts, to run their famous wallpaper workshop, and to make furniture whose designs are still in production eighty years later. He pioneered the study of color at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and chaired the design department at Yale University. While books have been written about Albers for specialist audiences, this new volume fulfills the clear need for a more general study. Hardcover400 pagesThames & Hudson, 20186.8 x 1.5 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9780500519103Artist Monographs, Art History, Biography

Josef Albers: Life and Work

Herausgegeben von Frank Schmidt und Karsten Müller Der Münchner Josef Scharl (1896-1954) zählt zu den bedeutenden Künstlern der 1920er- und frühen 1930er-Jahre in Deutschland. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Expressionismus und Neuer Sachlichkeit schuf er ein malerisches Œuvre, das die politischen und sozialen Verwerfungen der Moderne eindringlich widrspiegelt. Die Ausstellung versammelt rund fünfzig Hauptwerke Scharls, die überwiegend in seinen Münchner Jahren bis zur Emigration 1938 in die USA entstanden: Bilder von einer Intensität und Dringlichkeit, die bis heut wirken. Es ist an der Zeit, diesen singulären Künstler der Zwischenkriegsjahre und seine eigenwillige Bildsprache erneut zu entdecken. Hardcover117 pagesText in GermanWienand, 20188.6 x 0.7 x 9.7 inchesISBN 9783868324280Artist Monograph, Painting

Josef Scharl. Zwischen den Zeiten

By Wilhelm HausensteinForeword by Kenneth Croose Parry "This books is far more than just the story of Paul Klee's development as a painter. It is also the fascinating outcome of the collaboration between a mature artist and his young chronicler, both eager to make names for themselves in 1920."—Pamela Kort The impressions Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance to his artistic development: “Color and I are one. I am a painter,” he declared afterwards. A few years later, in 1921, Klee’s friend Wilhelm Hausenstein placed the artist at the center of his book, Kairouan, and was thus one of the first people to recognize the artist’s genius. This edition combines Hausenstein’s rare original text with rich examples of Klee’s most important works. The particular charm of this volume lies in the unique combination of Klee monograph, novel narrating the development of the artist, and an exclusive book presentation. Kairouan is a treasure for established lovers of Klee as well as those whose interest has just been awakened. It grants an incomparable insight into the life of Paul Klee as an artist within the context of European art and society.Hardcover176 pages | 32 color illustrations Hirmer Publishers, 20206 x 8.3 x 0.8 inchesISBN 9783777435572Artist Monograph, Travel

Kairouan: Or How Paul Klee Became a Painter

By Hajo DüchtingOver the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work.As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual In Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting, music and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression, condensed in particular by color.This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20158.4 x 0.5 x 10.4 inchesISBN 9783836507462Artist Monograph, Painting, Abstraction

Kandinsky (Basic Art Series 2.0)

By Elsa SmithgallRussian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border (1913; Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an intensely creative period in his artistic development. Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence presents a rare, in-depth examination of the painting and more than fifteen preparatory studies in watercolor, oil, and pencil, along with closely related works made during this influential chapter in Kandinsky's career.This handsome book includes essays illuminating how Painting with White Border also relates to Kandinsky's writings, including Concerning the Spiritual in Art (published 100 years ago) and his autobiography Reminiscences. A jointly authored essay by conservators at the Phillips and the Guggenheim presents the results of a recent conservation analysis of the painting and its related oil sketch (1913; The Phillips Collection), revealing important new discoveries about the artist's creative process, materials, and methods.Hardcover136 pagesYale University Press, 201110.6 x 9.8 x 0.8 inchesISBN 9780300170788Artist Monograph, Art History, Creative Process, Painting

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