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Franz Erhard Walther
Franz Erhard Walter's art examines themes related to the categorization of art. Walther himself said that the elements of place, time, space, body, and language were his artistic means. He embodies the shift in the conceptual paradigm to an open-ended concept of the work of art, which includes the audience and the viewer as active participants, as almost no other ...

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Sehnsucht Natur
Art allows us fascinating insights into foreign cultures and ideas. This is particularly true of Chinese landscape painting. With its tradition of more than 1, 000 years, it reflects all of China's cultural and intellectual history. Its view of nature follows its own rules. What at first glance seems to be idyllic ink wash pictures are actually far more than ...

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Francisco de Goya
He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The Fondation Beyeler is preparing one of the most extensive exhibitions of his work outside of Spain.In his more than sixty-year-long career, Goya was an astute observer of the drama of reason and irrationality, of dreams and ...

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Francisco de Goya
He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time, a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The Fondation Beyeler is preparing one of the most extensive exhibitions of his work outside of Spain.In his more than sixty-year-long career, Goya was an astute observer of the drama of reason and irrationality, of dreams and ...

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Heiter bis wolkig
Fair to cloudy" is a prognostication regularly made on the evening weather report, promising everything and nothing. Homeland-what is it, and how do you recognize or identify it? Three young photographers travel across the country searching for what is "typically German, " something that is both fascinating and disconcerting to them. On their journey from Husum to Donaueschingen they take ...

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Hundertwasser
The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His work is not about silent conformity, but about life itself: each individual, in society and in the environment. With their strong, colorful formal vocabulary, Hundertwasser's works allow nature its space. Even beyond his artwork, though, the Austrian environmentalist ...

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Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE
From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. In cooperation ...

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Resonating Spaces
The Fondation Beyeler begins its fall exhibition season in 2019 with five women artists. Instead of a comprehensive group show with numerous works, the art of Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, and Rachel Whiteread provide insight into various approaches to the space. The works of these artists create a specific sense of space-acoustically, as sculpture, or in ...

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Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla received many accolades over his lifetime. The most important, though, was perhaps the turn of phrase used by Claude Monet, when he called the Spanish painter a "master of light." And, in fact, Sorolla's genre, portrait, and history paintings are flooded by an unparalleled, bright clarity and playful color schemes. He and his French admirer also devoted an ...

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Nonnen
This publication sheds light on the various kinds of religious lives open to medieval women. Entering a cloister was more than simply deciding to lead a contemplative life devoted to prayer. Cloister life allowed women access to extensive education, and the writings of many a religious woman influenced the theology and knowledge of the Middle Ages. Others acceded to power ...

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Von Büchern in Bildern
Artists, both historical and contemporary, have been captivated by books. From Rembrandt's mother studying the Bible, to Edvard Munch asleep next to a brothel madam reading a book after a bacchanal, to Picasso, who was never seen holding a book, this charming little volume offers up a fascinating spectrum of paintings from all epochs and genres. They all have one ...

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Bauhaus 100
Can the Bauhaus only be found in Berlin, Dessau, or Weimar? No way! There are outstanding Bauhaus and modernist sites all over Germany-trailblazing architecture that has left a lasting mark on our understanding of life, work, education, and living. Through more than 100 structures, most of which are open to tourism, this volume makes it possible to experience the historical ...

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Keith Haring
This vibrant book explores extraordinary artist Keith Haring's work in the context of key issues of his lifetime-the AIDS crisis, the Cold War, racism, the excesses of capitalism, and environmental degradation. Haring is widely recognized for his colorful paintings, drawings, sculptures, and murals. Haring exploded onto the early 1980s New York art scene with his vivid graffiti-inspired drawings, many of ...

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Von Mougins nach Baden-Baden
Von Mougins nach Baden-Baden (From Mougins to Baden-Baden) draws a portrait of a brilliant life in the arts: the life of Frieder Burda, who built one of the most unique collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, which he presents in constantly new contexts in his museum in Baden-Baden. This richly illustrated volume effectively describes the path this man followed in ...

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Eisbären
Figures in polar bear costumes on the beach, at pubs, and fairs, arm in arm with toddlers, men, women: what kind of strange pictures are these?The collector Jochen Raiß, whose flea market finds of women in trees have already stirred the enthusiasm of photography fans, again opens up his treasure trove for a new and mysterious series of people posing ...

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Schule des Sehens
In its complexity, modern art can be intimidating and incomprehensible for some viewers. Without detailed knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology or Christian theology-once so vivid in the minds of both artists and viewers-some of the works of the Old Masters now seem meaningless, for the secret to understanding the masterpieces of art history often lies in a system rife ...

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Alles tanzt
Up until the 1930s Vienna was one of the international centers of modern dance. The Theatermuseum in Vienna presents a large exhibition dealing with the multifaceted, dense, and effervescent dance scene in Vienna in the early twentieth century, contrasting it with drastic contemporary events: the Nazi dictatorship, persecution, and exile. The focus is on dancers and choreographers who pioneered European ...

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Zufälle im Museum
Some individuals strikingly resemble the art they are viewing, and Stefan Draschan has developed a special perspective of these picturesque correspondences. While strolling through the museums of Europe, Draschan captured similarities between the works of art and the people looking at them, noticing similar colors, patterns, hairdos, or physical posture. The artist has created astonishing visual moments that can be ...

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Rebecca Horn
Dichter als Zeichner, Maler als Schriftsteller - wirkliche Doppelbegabungen sind selten. Fast immer behält eine der beiden Seiten die Oberhand. Die Künstlerin Rebecca Horn wurde mit Performances, Filmen, Zeichnungen, Fotoübermalungen, Installationen und Skulpturen berühmt. Zugleich hat sie über zwei Jahrzehnte einen Corpus von Gedichten geschaffen. Der Band versammelt erstmals ihre auf viele Kataloge und Bücher verstreuten Gedichte sowie weniger bekannten ...

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Gletscher
Landscape painters were not only the first to visualize the grandeur of Alpine glaciers but were also pioneering researchers. Aside from their artistic qualities, the paintings provide valuable information on the appearance and distribution of glaciers from even before they were systematically observed. Particularly the paintings of Thomas Ender and Ferdinand Runk from early nineteenth-century depict Alpine glaciers with exacting ...

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