Etching, the origins of which as an intaglio technique can be traced back to the beginning of the 16th century, unfolded its full glory in the 17th century. Famous engravers such as Albrecht Dürer had rejected etching as an inferior technique to copperplate engraving, but a century later it experienced its Baroque heyday. The etching technique owes its albeit late success to the freedom of its lines. Unlike the laborious method of copperplate engraving, the artist’s hand can playfully transpose the drawing onto the etching plate with ease. This catalogue provides fascinating insights into the working processes and aesthetics of Baroque printmaking. The focus is on works by three artists who excelled in the etching technique: Jacques Callot, Stefano della Bella and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. New state of research on Baroque etching

The very multifaceted artist Max Slevogt had contact with many different circles. As a leading member of the Berlin Secession and then the Prussian Academy of Art, he had an outstanding network and was a central figure on the art scene in Germany from the turn of century until the 1920s. The texts in the book situate Max Slevogt within the intellectual history of the late German Empire and the Weimar Republic and thus attempt to classify his work from the perspective of art and cultural history. Max Slevogt's extremely complex artistic practice is described based its intellectual, material, and communicative requirements. The constitution of his oeuvre and his identity as an artist hence go hand in hand and, as netlike structures, give rise to reciprocal interactions.