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Max Beckmann
Christiane Zeillner, Bernhard Maaz
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Max Beckmann (1884–1950), the outstanding Expressionist painter,
is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth
century. His works, jostling with figures and full of colour, are
packed with highly symbolic messages. They are critical of the
times in which he lived and bear witness to Beckmann’s struggle
with existential questions and his constant search for truth. Max
Beckmann is one of the most fascinating painters of the modern age,
who more than almost any other reflected the social upheavals of
his time, not only in his numerous works but also and not least
through his extensive correspondence and diaries. He was an
observer, a gentleman, a loner and a reflective witness of his age.
Perpetually searching for truth, he was a self-critical witness of
the times in which he lived. It is especially in his expressive
self-portraits that we believe we can get closer to Beckmann’s
multi-faceted nature and hence become better able to understand the
wide range of metaphors in his multi-faceted oeuvre. This volume by
one of the most illustrious Beckmann specialists, Dr. Christiane
Zeiller, traces his artistic career and the principal stations of
his life, from the years in Berlin and Frankfurt via his exile in
Amsterdam und America. The unique Max Beckmann Archives, with its
wide-ranging legacy, are currently housed in the Bayerische
Staatsgemaldesammlungen in Munich. Material which has not
previously been published will be shown in the publication,
including private photos and objects from amongst the artist’s
personal possessions.
The Modern Art Collection (Sammlung Moderne Kunst) at the
Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is one of the world's leading
institutions for painting, sculpture, photography and new media.
The spectrum ranges from the avant-garde movements of the early
twentieth century to contemporary art. In the incomparably rich
collection of Expressionists, the Cubist and Futuristic
re-definition of autonomous art challenges the question of man's
changed circumstances in the modern age. The artists of the
'Brücke' and the 'Blaue Reiter', along with Max Beckmann, who is
uniquely represented here, address this issue eloquently. Pablo
Picasso's pictorial fantasies and formal richness of invention are
highlighted, along with Surrealists like Max Ernst, René Magritte
and Salvador DalÃ. Important themes after 1950 are debated in the
works by Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Georg Baselitz and
others. This volume offers the author's refreshingly personal
perspective on these subjects and highlights the iconic works in
this world-class collection.
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Georg Baselitz (Hardcover)
Carla Schulz-Hoffman; Preface by Bernhard Maaz, Corinna Thierolf
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The Bavarian State Painting Collections hold 31 masterpieces by
Georg Baselitz from all the artist's creative phases. The volume
analyses for the first time these important paintings and
sculptures within the context of the history of the collection,
which has been shaped not only by the artist's out-standing
supporters and collectors, including Duke Franz von Bayern, but
also by the passionate commitment of the directors and curators of
the museums. In 1972, when Sea Swallow became the first work by
Georg Baselitz to join the Bavarian State Painting Collections,
this represented the first step towards the establishment of an
epoch-making collection. Today, 46 years later, the museum is
dedicating this extensive publication to this main focus within its
holdings which has been built up over the past decades. It
spotlights one of the highlights of its collection of art after
1945, whose outstanding profile in the international museum
landscape is also charac -terized by unique holdings of works by
Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke,
Arnulf Rainer and Fred Sandback.
Adolf von Hildebrand is regarded as one of the most important
sculptors in Germany around 1900. He created his works between the
era of the Prince Regent in Munich and the enthusiasm for Italy of
German Romans. He liberated the sculpture of the nineteenth century
from superfluous decoration and thus became a pioneer of modernity.
Works by the artist were already acquired for the collection of the
Neue Pinakothek at an early point in time and were able to grow to
become unique holdings of over 200 works as a result of the
acquisition of his workshop estate. Besides completed works, the
estate also includes models for ideal sculptures, reliefs,
portraits, fountains, monuments, and tombs. In the catalog on the
holdings, the works by Fabian Pius Huber are documented in detail
for the first time and put in relation to the artist's oeuvre as a
whole and his era.
Mobilitat und Naturerfahrung sind zwei wesentliche Angelpunkte der
Landschaftskunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Reisen in nah und fern fuhrten
zu neuen kunstlerischen Arbeitspraktiken und verhalfen unter
anderem der OElstudie zu grossem Erfolg. Mehr noch wurde die
aufkommende Reiselust, wie sie etwa in dem beruhmten Handbuch von
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes bereits 1800 propagiert wurde, zum
Ideal der Aus- und Identitatsbildung des Landschaftsmalers. Der
Wunsch nach Naturnahe, die Suche nach Neuem und das Bedurfnis nach
kunstlerischem Austausch machten die Landschaftsmalerei zu einer
europaischen Kunstform par excellence. Im vorliegenden Band
thematisieren internationale und renommierte Fachleute die
besondere Arbeitssituation des reisenden Landschaftsmalers, seine
Sehnsucht nach nahem oder fernem Unbekannten und beschaftigen sich
mit zeichnerischen und malerischen Aneignungsstrategien. Denn
letztlich fuhrte der neue Arbeitsmodus auf Reisen zu einem neuen
Landschaftsbild.
Der Gelehrte Alexander von Humboldt gehoert gleich Goethe zu den
Groessen einer Zeit, die im geistigen Austausch mittels kurzerer
oder langerer Briefe ihre Ideen und Projekte, Gedanken und Gefuhle
transportierten. Derartige Quellen sind von hoechster
Anschaulichkeit und grosser Lebendigkeit. Fast 150 Briefe Humboldts
an den Bildhauer Christian Daniel Rauch, der - beispielsweise durch
das Reiterstandbild Friedrichs des Grossen Unter den Linden - in
Berlin allgegenwartig ist, werden hier erstmals veroeffentlicht und
fachkundig kommentiert. In den zwischen 1807 und 1857 geschriebenen
Briefen entsteht ein hoechst facettenreicher Einblick in die Welt
zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, Burgertum und Hof, Frankreich und
Deutschland, zwischen zwei engen Freunden. So schrieb Humboldt 1836
an Rauch: 'Sie, verehrter Freund, sind seit meines Bruders Tod mir
die erfreulichste, anmutigste Erscheinung in dieser mir veroedeten
Welt.'
Das Dresdener Kupferstich-Kabinett, eine der altesten derartigen
Sammlungen der Welt, bewahrt Zeichnungen, druckgraphische Blatter
und Fotografien aus uber acht Jahrhunderten. Aus diesem Bestand mit
seinen weit uber 500 000 Arbeiten von mehr als 20 000 Kunstlern
prasentiert der vorliegende Band etwa 120 Meisterwerke von Durer,
van Eyck, Rembrandt bis hin zu Munch, Giacometti und Dix. Auch
jungst erworbene zeitgenoessische Werke von Kunstlern wie Wolfgang
Tillmans und Thomas Hoepker werden in Farbabbildungen vorgestellt.
Alle besprochenen Werke sind chronologisch aufgefuhrt, so dass die
Entwicklung der graphischen und fotografischen Kunste nachvollzogen
werden kann. Zugleich werden die unterschiedlichen Funktionen und
Techniken von Arbeiten auf Papier ebenso wie einige Schwerpunkte
der Sammlung exemplarisch sichtbar.
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