Photography

Original Price: $50.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Monika Faber With preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreword by Renée Price, and contributions by Katrin Bomhoff, Christian Brandstätter, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Monika Faber, Esther Ruelfs, Lisa Silverman, and Magdalena Vuković Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer took the pseudonym Madame d'Ora. She was the most acclaimed portraitist of the fin-de-siècle Vienna, and went on to create one of the most stylish Art Deco studios in Paris in the 1920s. Her models included Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Colette, and Pablo Picasso, among many others. The catalogue covers the primary periods of her life and career, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier celebrity and society photographer first in Vienna and later in Paris. It also discusses her survival during the Holocaust and her work photographing refugees in the aftermath of World War II, including a remarkable and searing group of photographs documenting Parisian abattoirs. This publication accompanies the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, on view at the Neue Galerie New York from February 20 to June 8, 2020. Hardcover 220 pages80 color illustrations, 100 b/w illustrationsPrestel, 20209.2 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791359700Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Portraiture, Women Artists

Madame d'Ora Exhibition Catalogue

Original Price: $49.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERSEdited 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 Pavel Scheufler Jan Langhans lived from 1851 to 1928, and is now, once again, among the best known figures in Czech photography. This book presents a selection of the studio photographs that made his name, culled from the "Celebrities Gallery" he began in 1890, a valuable record not only of famous Czechs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also of important visitors to the country who had their portraits made in one of his studios in Prague or elsewhere in Bohemia. Jan Langhans opens with a brief introduction by Zuzana Meisnerova-Wismerov, the photographer's great-granddaughter and the manager of the Langhans Gallery in Prague, and illustrates not only Langhans's work but the height of portrait photography in the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Paperback140 pagesTorst, 20067.2 x 6.3 x 0.4 inchesISBN 9788072152513Out-of-Print, Artist Monograph, Photography, Portraits

Jan Langhans

By Jan Rezác Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable portion of his oeuvre is given over to portraits. In fact, the beginnings of Sudek's work are in portraiture, in his images of fellow patients at the veteran's hospital where he spent three years after the First World War. (It was here that Sudek's right arm was amputated after a battlefield injury, a misfortune which did not prevent him from using heavy, large-format cameras in the future.) Decades later, after he had cofounded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924 and established his signature neo-Romantic preoccupation with architectural Prague, he returned to the genre. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Sudek photographed close friends, among them the poet and Nobel Laureate Jaroslav Seifert, many painters and writers, but also scientists, doctors, politicians, architects, actors and other important public figures in Czechoslovakia. Portraits, the second volume of Sudek's collected photographs, gathers this body of work. In addition to a chronology of Sudek's life, it includes a complete bibliography and list of his exhibitions, as well as an interview with Jan Rezác, Sudek's colleague and an expert on his work. Hardcover96 pages Torst, 20089 x 0.6 x 11.3 inches ISBN 9788072153190Artist Monograph, Photography, Portraits

Josef Sudek: Portraits

Contributions by Timm RautertPhotographs by Josef Sudek Timm Rautert (born 1941) met Josef Sudek for the first time on a study trip to Prague in the spring of 1967. The photography student and the 71-year-old Sudek―who was arguably the most important Czech landscape and still-life photographer of the 20th century and a cult figure in his native country―instantly took to each other, and Rautert began photographing the artist in his studio and at his home. He accompanied him on his strolls in parks in Little Prague on the left bank of the Vltava river as he searched for adequate perspectives, and documented his work process inside and outside the darkroom. First published in 2008, the Sudek series, here compiled in this new volume, is an extraordinary chronicle of a fascinating personality and place in the run-up to the Prague Spring, and marks the beginning of Rautert’s career, during which the portrait and people at work were of particular importance to him.Hardcover96 pagesSteidl, 20169.7 x 0.6 x 11.1 inchesISBN 9783958291188Photography

Josef Sudek, Prague 1967

By Riichi Miyake Photography by Keiichi Tahara At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli as the Far East, Nirvana, and the unleashed unconscious of Freudian psychoanalysis, buildings by the likes of Gaudí, Horta, Hoffmann, Loos, and Mackintosh instilled structure with the sinuous lines of nature, surfaces with a fairy tale shimmer, and spaces with an ethereal wash of light or shadowy, mysterious hush.In this dramatic portfolio, architectural photographer Keiichi Tahara travels across Europe to present the finest examples of this Art Nouveau architecture. From the glamorous facade of the Grand Hotel Europa to the elaborate sweep of a staircase or the perfect poise of a single chandelier, Tahara captures the intricate details as much as the holistic spatial effects of these ambitious, marvelous structures. With an eye attuned to the style’s organic detailing, he surveys its floral patterns, vine-like balustrades, and the soft, hollow interiors that seem to summon us into some primordial place.Drenched in sunshine or draped in dramatic shadows, Tahara’s pictures excel in evoking not only the unrivalled aura of these buildings but also the particular, fin-de-siècle spirit of their age, caught on the axel of a century, and characterized by reflection and yearning, as much as technological, philosophical, and political advance. Texts by Riichi Miyake accompany Tahara’s pictures to describe the buildings’ floor plans, designs, and the broader context of their dreamlike environments. Hardcover966 pages (spanning 3 volumes)Text in English, French, and GermanTaschen, 201712 x 5.5 x 17.5 inchesISBN 9783836530576Fin-de-Siècle, Art Nouveau, Architecture

Keiichi Tahara: Architecture Fin-de-Siècle

Original Price: $15.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Anna FarovaPublished together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easily the most important and extensive visual documentation of the forced labor camps, these photos have both artistic and historical value.Paperback160 pages | 87 duotonesTorst Publishing, 20016.3 x 7 inchesISBN 9788072151370Artist Monograph, Photography

Zdenek Tmej: Totaleisatz

By Michael White "With Generation Dada, White has presented readers with a powerful new portrait of an avant-garde that flourished in one of the most fraught cities of the early twentieth century." —Catherine Craft, Burlington Magazine“In a well researched, detailed examination of the Berlin avant-garde in the context of WWI, White . . . offers a fresh analysis of the key events and personal relationships that helped form the artistic practices of some of the central figures of the German Dada movement. In an informative but refreshingly accessible style, the author manages to pay close attention to the intricacies of cultural and historical context as well as the formal elements of the works themselves . . . demonstrating a keen eye for the relationship between content and form.” —ChoiceFor the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective—Club Dada, to members—was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, and Johannes Baader—renamed Propaganda Marshall, Monteurdada, Dadasoph, and Oberdada within the organization—have remained largely unexamined until now. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group'ss beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era's chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves as a new generation—in contrast to their pacifist forebears, the Expressionists—the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. It also offers the first serious consideration of the group's role in constructing its own legacy, even as the works were deliberately rooted in the ephemeral.Hardcover382 pages | 20 color and 130 black-and-white illustrationsYale University Press, 20137.8 x 1.2 x 10 inchesISBN 9780300169034Art History, Dada, German History

Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

Edited by Vladmír Birgus and Jan MlcochIt was not so long ago that one would have been hard pressed to find a single Czech name in most western European or American books on the history of photography. Today, things are very different: photographers like Josef Sudek, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, Josef Koudelka, Jan Saudek and Antonín Kratochvíl enjoy international acclaim, and as Czechoslovakia emerged from over half-century of totalitarian rule, the rest of the world was astounded to discover that such a small nation could boast so many talented and original photographers. Nonetheless, entire chapters of the history of Czech photography remain largely neglected. Czech Photography of the 20th Century is the first volume to survey the main trends, figures and masterpieces of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century. Its 517 plates include not only the most historically important photographs and photo-montages, but also works that have lain buried in archives and rare books, or photographs published for the first time. Hardcover396 pages | 251 color, 36 b/w, 266 tritone imagesKant, 201110 x 1.5 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9788074370274Photography, History, Czech Artists

Czech Photography of the 20th Century

By Andreas Huyssen “This book will serve as an invaluable guide to the wide variety of miniature writings that emerged in the modern age. Huyssen’s close readings of these literary gems highlight the ways in which they responded to new modes of sensory experience. A brilliant study of literature in the era of visual media.”—Anthony Kaes, University of California, Berkeley“Miniature Metropolis provides a methodology for others who wish to consider the seemingly incidental writings of Modernists that have so often been eclipsed by less modest parts of their oeuvres. With original arguments and meticulous analyses, this fine study deepens our knowledge of familiar authors, and through the light it casts on its subject, it also brings into focus the current challenges to the literary mode posed by digital media and new related social practices.”—Elaine Morley, The Times Literary Supplement“This is a unique, deeply thought, and important work that brings new insights into the literary forms of modernism, and their relations to other media.”—Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper UnionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary modernism.Andreas Huyssen shows how writers from Baudelaire and Kafka to Benjamin, Musil, and Adorno created the miniature to record their reflections of Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Contesting photography and film as competing media, the metropolitan miniature sought to capture the visceral feeling of acceleration and compression that defined urban existence. But the form did not merely imitate visual media—it absorbed them, condensing objective and subjective perceptions into the very structure of language and text and asserting the aesthetic specificity of literary language without resort to visual illustration. Huyssen argues that the miniature subverted the expectations of transparency, easy understanding, and entertainment that mass circulation newspapers depended upon. His fine-grained readings open broad vistas into German critical theory and the history of visual arts, revealing the metropolitan miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism. Hardcover368 pagesHarvard University Press, 20156.2 x 1.5 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9780674416727Photography, History, Urban Studies

Miniature Metropolis; Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

Editied by Phillip Prodger Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppé traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country’s history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways of life. With unprecedented access to the country’s world-famous factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few others could—barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving, insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppé’s German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines photographs published in Hoppé’s legendary book of 1930, Deutsche Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hoppé’s photographs reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the Second World War. This publication uncovers Hoppé as a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary photographic practice. Hoppé used his experience in Germany to develop a modern new style of photography—showing not just how things looked, but how it felt to be there. Hardcover240 pagesSteidl, 201511 x 1.2 x 12 inchesISBN 9783869309378Photography, German History, Documentary

The German Work

Text by Ulrike Meyer Stump. How Karl Blossfeldt’s plant photographs were disseminated in the popular media of the time, from pattern books to magazine spreads In the 1890s, the Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the smallest plant parts, magnified up to 30 times their natural size, startle us as they dramatically highlight the geometrical and sculptural properties of plants. Published in 1928, his first collection of photographs, Urformen der Kunst (later translated into English as Art Forms in Nature) became an international bestseller and remains one of the most significant photobooks of the 20th century.Karl Blossfeldt: Variations is the first monograph to examine the reception of Blossfeldt’s work. Drawing on unpublished materials, it analyzes the photographs’ replication in teaching materials, pattern books, art books and in the pages of the illustrated press. The six sections of the book trace the paths that Blossfeldt’s legendary plant motifs took in their incarnations as specimens, illustrations, patterns, analogues, models and abstractions from 1890 to 1945. Thematic contemporary appraisals illustrating the rediscovery of Blossfeldt's motifs in design and architecture over the past 20 years complement this new perspective on the beloved German photographer. Hardcover512 pages | 100 color, 100 black-and-white illustrations6.5 x 9.5 inchesLars Müller Publishers, 2021ISBN 9783037786369Monograph, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: Variations

Edited with text by Kristina LemkeText by Jens Bove, Wolfgang Brückle, Anne Vitten, Patrick Rössler, Rolf Sachsse, Birgit Schillak-Hammers, and Steffen Siegel Dazzling photographs from one of the most radical periods in modern photography This volume offers insight into one of photographic history’s most fruitful moments—the interwar period in Central Europe. Thematic chapters present works by Gertrud Arnd, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Lucia Moholy, August Sander, Umbo and many others. Paperback300 pages | 148 color illustrationsText in German and English9.5 x 11.25 inchesKerber, 2021ISBN 9783735607454Photography, Central Europe

New Ways of Seeing: Photography of the '20s and '30s

Edited by Monika Faber and Janos FrecotWith its nearly 130 portraits by over 45 photographers, this catalogue offers a splendid survey of portrait photography in Germany and Austria in the first three decades of the 20th century. Please note that this book is Out of Stock. 176 pagesHardcoverISBN 9783775715645Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Portraits

SOLD OUT - Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria 1900-1938

Edited by Alana Shapira and Anne-Katrin Rossberg Gestalterinnen played a decisive role in the development of modernism in Vienna. This publication presents new research on women designers, ceramicists, fashion designers, graphic artists, garden architects, photographers, art historians and patrons. The contributions illuminate the eminent importance of these women for Viennese modernism and show how traditional role models were challenged during the interwar period. The Gestalterinnen confronted existing prejudices and created new visual languages in order to forge successful careers. At the same time, they contributed to critical discourse on the emancipation of women.Paperback272 pages De Gruyter, 2023 Text in German and English 6.6 x 0.7 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9783110771886Women Artists, Design

Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit

Text by Antonín Dufek This previously unpublished album contains 72 photographs by Czech photographer Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) that were likely taken in 1923, only four years into Funke’s career. These photographs feature important buildings and monuments, as well as journeys undertaken with fellow Czech photographer Josef Sudek. Hardcover92 pages | 72 color plates Kant, 20189 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9788074372377 Photography

Jaromír Funke: Kolín 1923

By Thomas Bleitner It was a time of unimagined new freedoms. From the cafés of Paris to Hollywood's silver screen, women were exploring new modes of expression and new lifestyles. In countless aspects of life, they dared to challenge accepted notions of the "fairer sex," and opened new doors for the generations to come. What's more, they did it with joy, humor, and unapologetic charm.Exploring the lives of seventeen artists, writers, designers, dancers, adventurers, and athletes, this splendidly illustrated book brings together dozens of photographs with an engaging text. In these pages, readers will meet such iconoclastic women as the lively satirist Dorothy Parker, the avant-garde muse and artist Kiki de Montparnasse, and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, whose stories continue to offer inspiration for our time. Women of the 1920s is a daring and stylish addition to any bookshelf of women's history. Hardcover170 pagesAbbeville Press, 20198.2 x 0.5 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9780789213471 History, Women's History

Women of the 1920s: Style, Glamour, and the Avant-Garde

von Wilfried Rosendahl und Claude W. SuiFotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser Der aufwendig gestaltete Band präsentiert nicht nur eine Reihe großartiger Bilder von bleibendem Wert und im hochwertigen Druck, er ist ein wertvolles Dokument zur Geschichte der Fotografie in der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit. Ein Muss für Fotografie- und fotohistorisch Interessierte und für jede Sammlung mit Büchern zur Fotografie! Die Brüchigkeit unseres Seins: Legendäre Aufnahmen der 1920er und 30er Jahre von August Sander (1876–1964) und Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), den Hauptvertretern der »Neuen Sachlichkeit« in der Fotografie, treffen auf Ikonen von Robert Häusser (1924–2013), einem Klassiker der Nachkriegszeit. In faszinierender Beobachtung zeigen sie Menschen, Arbeitswelten und Natur in Zeiten von Umbruch und Neuanfang. Die »Neue Sachlichkeit« wurde 1925 geboren, als Hartlaub seine legendäre Mannheimer Ausstellung so benannte und damit einen bleibenden Begriff der Kunstgeschichte prägte. Unser Band feiert das 100. Jubiläum mit herausragenden Porträts und Menschendarstellungen, Fotografien von Industrie und Arbeiter:innen sowie von Landschaften und Pflanzen. Sanders Werk »Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts« oder Renger-Patzschs »Die Welt ist schön« haben Fotogeschichte geschrieben. Im Dialog mit Häusser, der in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag hat, offenbaren sich Korrespondenzen wie Besonderheit der jeweiligen Handschrift. Gebunden168 Seiten, 140 Abbildungen in FarbeHirmer Verlag GmbH, 20248.78 x 9.96 inchesISBN 9783777444369Monographs, Photography

Sachlich Neu

by Hans Christian Adam “It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that photographers in the know have been waiting for this book.” ―The New York Times German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th- and 20th-century worlds of image-making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt’s images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still life's, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their aesthetics and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective. Hardcover512 pagesTaschen America Llc, 20246.1 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9783836598514Monographs, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published Work. 40th Ed.

Von Susanne BisovskyMode für eine große Stadt Wien ist eine alte Dame, die früh zu Bett geht und lange schläft! Eine Stadt wie Wien in einem globalisierten Umfeld ist der Hintergrund für die ersten dreißig Jahre „Bekleidungsentwicklungshilfe“ einer Wiener Modeschöpferin seit 1990. Wider eine glattgebügelte internationalisierte Ästhetik formuliert Susanne Bisovsky tiefgreifende, aber auch spielerische und letztlich selbstbestimmte Wege zu Bekleidung, Mode, Gewandung. Die Modeschöpferin nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise in die Höhen und Tiefen einer textilen Realität, die kaum Vergangenheit und nur Momentchen der Gegenwart kennt. Dabei durchdringt sie für und mit uns die Scheinwelt hysterischer Überproduktion und öffnet ihren realen und imaginären Fundus der Bekleidung einer Stadt, deren Schätze man nur zu heben bräuchte. Unbeirrt von Trends führt sie uns ein scheinbar aus der Zeit gefallenes Bild der „Schönen Wienerin“ vor Augen. Und zwischen den Zeilen des von namhaften Fotograf*innen bebilderten Bandes findet man schließlich eine Stadt, die sich um den Preis der Austauschbarkeit mehr und mehr selbst verliert. Damit das nicht passiert, beschenkt uns die Couturière mit erfrischendem „Wiener Chic“. Couture-Kollektionen von Trachtenpunk bis Teatro alla Scala Mit Textbeiträgen von Helmut Lang, Suzy Menkes, Barbara Vinken, Angela Stief, Elisabeth Längle, Andrea Bonicelli, Hubert Achleitner u. a. m. Fotografiert von Wolfgang Zac, Atelier Olschinsky, Bernd Preiml, Wolfgang Pohn, Jenni Koller, Bianca Hochenauer und Günter Derleth.Vienna, a city in a globalised environment, is the backdrop for the first thirty years of "development aid for clothing" by a Viennese fashion designer, starting in 1990. In contrast to a sleek internationalized aesthetic, Susanne Bisovsky formulates radical yet playful and ultimately self-determined approaches to clothing, fashion and attire.Hardcover304 pagesVerlag Anton Pustet, 2022Text in German and English9.88 x 1.46 x 13.31 inchesISBN 9783702510398 Viennese Fashion, Fashion Photography

Wiener Chic: Mode für eine große Stadt

By Enno Kaufhold The second volume in a series detailing the work of Christian Schad—one of the most important artists associated with the New Objectivity—this examination goes beyond his most famous medium to explore his lesser-known talent for photography. The collection reveals numerous rare images from the early to mid-1930s for the first time, from landscapes and abstract motifs to the striking metropolis of Berlin. Featuring accompanying discussions on the relationship between the New Objectivity and photography, the book also delves into Schad's artistic approach, focusing on his use of photographs in the painting of his famous portraits as well as his later unique method of artistic cameraless photography in his "Schadographs." Hardcover272 pagesWienand Verlag, 20139.5 x 1.1 x 12.25 inchesISBN 9783879099337Monograph, Photography, New Objectivity

Christian Schad, Volume 2: Catalogue Raisonné: Photographs

Edited by Pauline Behrmann and Isabel Schulz for the Sprengel Museum HannoverContributions by P. Behrmann, K. Blaschke-Walther, Simone Bretz, Katrin Kolk, and I. Schulz Käte Steinitz (1889–1975) is today best known for her collaboration with Kurt Schwitters. This monograph covers her multifaceted activities as an artist and writer in avant-garde circles during the Weimar Republic, as well as her experience as an emigrant, art historian, and promoter of modernism in the United States. With stops in Berlin, Hanover, New York and Los Angeles, this volume provides a vivid impression of Steinitz’s life on two continents. The focus is on her extraordinary six-decade-long artistic career. Influenced by Expressionism, New Objectivity, and New Vision, her work demonstrates a talent for observation and an ability to quickly capture movement and fleeting impressions. This overview of her photography, historical context, and personal development shaped by exile brings exciting new interest to a remarkable artist. Hardcover240 pages | 160 illustrationsHirmer, 20268.75 x 10.5 inchesISBN 9783777445670Monograph, Photography

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