20th Century German Art
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This book focuses on one of East Germany's most successful artists as a point of entry into the vibrant art world of the "other" Germany. In the 1980s, Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011) was praised on both sides of the Berlin Wall for his... more
Könnt' ich Holz wie Menschen schnitzen, Lauter Nymphen wollt' ich schnitzen; Könnt ich Marmorsäulen hauen, Lauter Nymphen wollt' ich hauen; Könnt' ich nur Tapeten wirken, O so wirkt' ich lauter Nymphen; Lauter zärtliche Blondinen, Lauter... more
Essay about the art work "Der Teufel von Berlin" (2001), a print edition by Simar Polke. The essay is part of the catalogue "Die Vervielfältigung des Humors / La démultiplication de l’humour / The Multiplication of Humor. Die Editionen in... more
Anselm Kiefer
The Centre Pompidou
December 16th 2015 – April 18th 2016
The Centre Pompidou
December 16th 2015 – April 18th 2016
Рецензия на книгу: Иван Чечот. От Бекмана до Брекера. Статьи и фрагменты. СПб.: Мастерская "Сеанс", 2016.
Доступ: http://seance.ru/blog/putevoditel-voobrazheniya/
Доступ: http://seance.ru/blog/putevoditel-voobrazheniya/
The essay is a chapter in the book, "Visions of the 'Neue Frau': Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany." It examines the concept of the artist- couple, focussing specifically on Cologne artists Marta Hegemann and Anton Raederscheidt.
Artículo de perfil sobre el artista alemán Max Ersnt. Páginas 84 - 87, en la revista cultural Cartón Piedra del diario nacional El Telégrafo.
Artists covered by entries: Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, Hermann Glöckner, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Klapheck, Sigmar Polke, Konrad Lueg, Wolf Vostell, Peter Brüning, Thomas Bayrle, Ulrich Baehr, Evelyn Richter, Bernd and Hilla... more
A review of the Anselm Kiefer show "Regeneration Series" at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale and a consideration of critiques of Kiefer's art as sensationalizing the Holocaust.
The Erlöserkirche at Bad Homburg was built between 1903 and 1908 at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It combines a neo-Romanesque exterior with Norman-Sicilian mosaics inside. Both were "Germanic" to the emperor, and the church... more
Sabine T. Kriebel's Revolutionary Beauty is the most thorough study to date of the Communist photomontage artist John Heartfield's work for the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) in the late 1920s and 1930s. Kriebel analyses Heartfield's... more
Artistic life and main evolutions of one of the major figures of the early German Dance and cabaret (written in french).
Die Kinderbücher von Otto Dix. Versuch eines Überblicks 2 Ein glücklicher Zufall… Als ich im Frühjahr 2016 vorschlug, bei dem Studientag in Colmar über die Kinderbücher von Otto Dix zu sprechen, wusste ich noch nichts von den... more
2’10” (two minutes, ten seconds) Before uttering a word of his introductory remarks for the June 2018 opening of Charline von Heyl’s Snake Eyes exhibition at the Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), John Corbett, the Chicago gallerist and music... more
In this essay, I explore the way in which the Dadaists used photomontage to critique the politics of the Weimar Republic, focusing on John Heartfield and George Grosz's photomontage on the cover of 'Everyone His Own Football', and Hannah... more
Essays from MODERN GERMAN MASTERPIECES, Saint Louis Art Museum, Winter Bulletin 1985
"Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891–1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he... more
The Bosnian Case: Art, History and Memory concerns the representation of historic and traumatogenic events in art through the specific case of the war in Bosnia 1992-1995. The research investigates an aftermath articulated through the... more
Josep Renau (Valencia 1907-Berlín 1982) es, sin duda, uno de los grandes creadores del arte español contemporáneo, pero también uno de sus artistas más singulares, polifacéticos y comprometidos. En ámbitos artístico-culturales muy... more
A brief study of Otto Dix's triptych 'The War' and its reception in and after 1932.
Series "Latvijas mākslas klasika / Classics of Latvian Art". Languages: Latvian / English. The book can be purchased at: https://www.neputns.lv/en/products/johans-valters-johann-walter
Der Ausstellungskatalog des Lindenau-Museums Altenburg präsentiert Werke von Friedrich Danielis (geb. 1944), die sämtlich in Venedig entstanden sind. Der Künstler schrieb für den Katalog eigene Texte, die Einführung stammt von der... more
Almost none of the more than 800 cemeteries of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge is described in detail as the Totenburg of Quero, Italy, on the right bank of the Piave river, near the fighting lines of the Ww1st front. This... more
The contributions of women are largely ignored in the history of art. Though the works of artists such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt are known by sight, their names are rarely mentioned in discussing the great... more
Berlin, Babylone moderne jusqu’en 1933, entre débauche et excès, est le lieu où nombres d’artistes s’installent pour témoigner du tourbillon décadent d’une société en pleine mutation. Alors que des classes sociales – tel que les... more
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, XXXIV. pp. 228-249.
Joseph Beuys term “Soziale Plastik" not only classified his own artistic practice as essentially sculptural but, more importantly, it allowed him to thematize its heterogenous relationships to art market, exhibition, museum, and various... more
Die Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin besitzt eine der weltweit bedeutendsten Sammlungen der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das zweibändige Bestandsverzeichnis enthält 1.800 Werke der Zeit 1905 bis 1945. Es dokumentiert... more
L’étude propose une analyse critique de l’ouvrage Autoportrait de Hans Hartung publié en 1976 aux éditions Grasset. L’auteure, après avoir travaillé pendant sept ans sur les archives de Hans Hartung à la Fondation Hartung-Bergman a... more
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