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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's years in Berlin mark his ascent to being
considered Germany's foremost Expressionist artist. His works from
this period abound with a new dynamism that mirrors the turbulent
life and lifestyles of the capital. Dance, cabaret, circus,
prostitutes and grandiose cityscapes are the dominating topics and
belong to the key works of German 20th-century art. German text.
English summary: Wood blocks reveal unmediated the creative
formation of the wood cuts: they document the process and the
involvement of the artist with the material more than the flat
impression made on paper. Besides the graphics, the particular
affinity of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff for the material of wood is
revealed in the production of sculptures, furnishings, and
handcrafts. The graphic formation of the wood blocks stands on the
cusp for three-dimensional works. With over 200 wood blocks, the
Bruecke-Museum possesses almost half of Schmidt-Rottluff's wood
works, which were donated by the artist himself in 1975. The
wood-block collection contains the early small-formal works from
around 1905 up to the later 1920's and provides an extensive survey
of Schmidt-Rottluff's work, among which are advertising works, ex
libris prints, periodical and map letterhead. From the middle of
the 1920's the artist experimented with the technique of color wood
cuts: he used multiple discs, cut the blocks for print with
different colors or colored a block with multiple colors. The
catalog presents the wood blocks in full-page color tables across
from the corresponding graphic pages from the collection of the
museum. The accompanying texts address the process, the specific
quality of expression and the creative process of the technique.
German description: Die Holzstocke offenbaren unmittelbar die
schopferische Genese der Holzschnitte, mehr als der flachige Druck
auf Papier dokumentieren sie die Bearbeitung und die
Auseinandersetzung des Kuenstlers mit dem Material. Neben der
Graphik zeigt sich die besondere Affinitat Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs
fuer den Werkstoff Holz in der Anfertigung von Skulpturen, Mobeln
und Kunsthandwerk. Die plastische Gestaltung der Holzstocke steht
an der Schwelle zum dreidimensionalen Schaffen des Kuenstlers. Das
Bruecke-Museum besitzt mit ueber 200 Holzstocken fast die Halfte
des Holzschnittwerkes Schmidt-Rottluffs - der Kuenstler selbst
hatte sie 1975 dem Museum geschenkt. Die Holzstock-Sammlung reicht
von fruehen kleinformatigen Arbeiten um 1905 bis in die spaten
zwanziger Jahre und gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick ueber das Werk
Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs, darunter auch gebrauchsgraphische Arbeiten
wie Ex libris, Zeitschriften- und Mappentitel. Ab Mitte der
zwanziger Jahre experimentierte der Kuenstler mit der Technik des
Farbholzschnitts: Er verwendete mehrere Platten, zersagte die
Stocke fuer den Druck mit verschiedenen Farben oder farbte einen
Stock mit mehreren Farben ein. Der Katalog prasentiert die
Holzstocke auf ganzseitigen Farbtafeln und stellt die
entsprechenden graphischen Blatter aus der Sammlung des Museums
gegenueber. Die begleitenden Texte thematisieren die Bearbeitung,
die spezifische Ausdrucksqualitat und den Schaffensprozess der
Technik.
Unmittelbar und unverfalscht... prasentiert einen Querschnitt aus
der Graphischen Sammlung des Berliner Brucke-Museums.
The collection of Rolf Horn is one of the most important private
collections of German art of classical modernism. To Rolf Horn, the
direct expressiveness of a piece of art was the decisive test of
his purchasing decisions. Works by Emil Nolde, Christian Rohlfs and
Kathe Kollwitz, as well as sculptures created by Ernst Barlach in
Guestrow, Germany are part of the collection that has been housed
in the Schleswig-Holstein Gottorf Castle since 1995. As beneficence
to the Gottorfer Castle, a generous selection is now for the first
time available for public viewing in the Berlin Bruecke Museum.
This illustrious catalog is equipped with compact monographs on
individual artists and creates an intensive compendium of essays on
German art in the first half of the 20th Century and arouses
interest in the artifacts of distant nations. German text.
This volume is centered around the pastel drawings of Karl
Schmitt-Rottluff that he executed during the early 1940s, when he
was banned from painting by the regime of the Third Reich. German
text.
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