HIRMER VERLAG MUNCHEN

Johannes Itten gained decisive impulses for the development of his concept of art and his path towards abstraction through various stations and sojourns in Thun and its surroundings. By means ...

After her artistic beginnings in the circle around Mondrian and elsewhere, Jacoba van Heemskerck belonged to the centre of the avant-garde movement emanating from the 'Sturm' of Herwarth Walden in ...

Pablo Picasso was 73 years of age during the winter when he created the unique ensemble of fifteen oil paintings, over 100 drawings and lithographs during his study of Eugène ...

After the artistic caesura during the years of the First World War, Kirchner regained new creative powers in Davos. Over a period of some twenty years he achieved a radical ...

Four contact zones were of crucial importance to these encounters with different cultures: ethnographic museums, entertainment culture, Kirchners studio and the German colony New Guinea. The publication examines Noldes and ...

he monograph on Egon Schiele edited by Rudolf Leopold in 1972 forms the basis for Egon Schieles world fame. This important document of art-historical literature has long been out of ...

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 ...

The area of focus of the first international, interdisciplinary conference on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, one of the most important artist personalities of the twentieth century, lay on fundamental questions of ...

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphaels paintings are regarded as some of ...

Evidently produced for pleasure, the Great Landscape remained in Rubenss possession until his death. As the restoration has shown, Rubens changed the painting several times and only added the story ...

Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as a 'double of reality'. Presenting some 100 sculptures and paintings, the publication tracks ...

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 ...