HIRMER VERLAG MUNCHEN

This magnificent book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. With 240 color illustrations, it ...

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530-1800 examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians-stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by ...

Thispublication examines in depth the in-fluence of folkloric traditions on the pioneers of Modernismin the development of their new artistic language. Craft objects and folk art are contrasted with masterpieces ...

Sensuousness, magic, a profound momentousness and irrationality are the hallmarks of the new art movement of Belgian Symbolism, which emerged during the 1880s. From Georg Minne and Fe licien Rops ...

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. ...

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classic Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue ...

Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career ...

Artists such as Alexander Apóstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Chiachio & Giannone, Ronny Quevedo, Sandy Rodríguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Clarissa Tossin and Cecilia Vicuña draw on centuries of imagery from ...

In außerordentlicher Lebendigkeit und thematischer Vielfalt erzählen die Bildschnitzereien, die Meister Arnt von Kalkar und Zwolle zwischen 1460 und 1492 schuf, von den Heiligen Drei Königen, dem heiligen Georg oder ...

With designs for book jackets, magazines, and political pamphlets, John Heartfield (1891-1968) established himself as Berlins most innovative graphic designer of the Weimar period. While he was initially associated with ...

The dominant topic of male Surrealists was woman as goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, child-woman, android, and dream creature. The women artists of Surrealism, on the other hand, were searching for ...

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential protagonists of the avant-garde, both as an artist and an author. With his utopia of the total Merz vision of the ...

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of that time adopted a critical and ...

Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) is regarded as the first woman artist of European standing. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an international reputation. She pursued a brilliant career and ...

The catalogue sheds light on the collectors close contact with their artist friends including Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Henri Matisse and Félix Vallotton. It provides an insight into unknown aspects ...

It is snowing! Attention centres on the first painting in European art with falling snowflakes, The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Flemish ...

Shedding light on a number of abstract movements initiated by artists collectives as well as individual practitioners in the region and the Arab diaspora, this book examines how these artists ...

Not only since the start of the Romantic era has painting been regarded as the leading artistic discipline in Germany. To this day, the nation of Painter Princes continues to ...

The whole world a Bauhaus? The publication accompanying the worldwide exhibition series takes the quotation of the former Bauhaus student and subsequent university teacher Fritz Kuhr as a starting point ...

'Van Gogh is dead, but the van Gogh-chaps are alive! And how alive they are! It is van Goghing everywhere', was how Ferdinand Avenarius described it in 1910 in the ...