Max Beckmann catalog raisonné: Everything online, everything accessible
NOf course one can ask, who needs a catalog of works weighing a kilo for Max Beckmann’s paintings? Perhaps the specialized dealer, the wealthy collector, … Read more
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Ottilie Roederstein: Why was the painter forgotten?
So slowly they all step forward from the dark of the stage. The painters who art history keeps hidden behind its magnificent curtains like a … Read more
Lucio Fontana: The existentialist’s toy
So sounds Gottfried Benn. This is what Richard Strauss sounds like. Such a story can only be from Clemens Setz. And Günther Uecker always nailed … Read more
Pierre Soulages: This artist has only been painting black for more than 70 years
Et was in the early 1940s. So war. The Nazis invade Paris. General Pétain allies with Franco. Not a good time for a trainee painter. … Read more
A woman’s revenge: Artemisia Gentileschi and the fight for her honor
NAnd of course the shoot has its time We are in the first half of the 17th century. It is war like never before in … Read more
The iconologist: Aby Warburg’s “Mnemosyne Picture Atlas” in the House of World Cultures
GTrud Bing has brought a covered apple pie. Fritz Saxl a bottle of single malt. Aby Warburg removes the piles of pictures on the oak … Read more
From Dresden to Düsseldorf: How Gerd Richter became Gerhard
Et was at the end of February 1961 when Gerhard Richter and his wife Marianne Eufinger boarded the Berlin S-Bahn and traveled to the western … Read more
Ernst Barlach in Dresden: The gnarled conservative
Ahen television was still the main medium: the Chancellor’s visit to the Barlach memorial in Güstrow – at that time still GDR. Helmut Schmidt in … Read more
Anselm Kiefer: The master is enough for himself
Er is among the painters what Peter Handke is among the poets. An unapproachable saint, hiding his greater self in a cranky shell. A retreat, … Read more