Christoph Wagner Boeken

An intimate and bibliophilic artist monograph of the German Expressionist Hermann Stenner.Hermann Stenner (1891–1914) was one of the most remarkable talents of the twentieth century. His promising career was cut short death by his death in battle in World War I when he was twenty-three. Stenner’s body of work is all the more impressive because of the compressed time frame in which it was produced—just five years of study and creative work. After attending painting classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, he transferred to study under the painter Adolf Hölzel, becoming the artist’s master student in 1912. In addition to the “Hölzel Circle,” Stenner also belonged to the circle of Westphalian Expressionists, which included artists such as Peter August Böckstiegel, Else Lohmann, August Macke, and Carlo Mense. By 1913, Stenner was already participating in important exhibitions in Germany and abroad alongside artists like Egon Schiele and Max Slevogt. In 1914, only a few months before he died in the war, he executed a cycle of wall paintings in the entrance hall of the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne with artists Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister. This artist’s remarkable oeuvre, which includes 280 paintings and more than 1,500 drawings, has recently attracted new critical attention. This publication celebrates the great rediscovery of one of the pioneers of German Expressionism.

A pocket-size introduction to the great twentieth-century German painter. Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) is among the most important painters in the history of twentieth-century art. His use of vibrant color drew on the works of Henri Matisse, with whom he was friends, and Paul Cézanne, but he achieved independent international acclaim over the course of an eventful life lived in Munich, Paris, Berlin, Florence, and Switzerland. With irrepressible curiosity, attentiveness, and an unerring eye for the beauty of the primal and essential, he produced works that pushed the bounds of representational painting. In 1955 Purrmann was included in the first documenta exhibit in Kassel, established to reconnect West Germany to the international art scene after World War II and to showcase art that had been deemed "degenerate" by the Nazi regime. In 1962 he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and was hailed by the press as a sensation. Based on new sources, this book presents the life and work of Hans Purrmann and situates the painter as a prominent protagonist in twentieth-century art history.

Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was a pioneering Swiss artist and Bauhaus master, known for his diverse body of work, including paintings, graphics, sculptures, textiles, and furniture. This comprehensive catalog, richly illustrated, expands on his contributions with over 1,000 additional works and detailed provenance research, providing an in-depth exploration of his artistic legacy.

Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was a pivotal Swiss artist and Bauhaus master, known for his diverse body of work, including paintings, graphics, sculptures, textiles, and furniture. This comprehensive catalog, enriched by 120,000 biographical documents, expands on his 1972 inventory, offering an in-depth look at his artistic legacy and color theory.

"When we think of football matches between England and Germany, we often think of 1966 when England won the World Cup final 4-2 and we remember the discussion about the third goal and whether or not the ball had crossed the line or not. We also think of 1996, when the press coverage during Euro 96 crossed the line when the Daily Mirror in particular declared a football war on Germany, thus inciting widespread criticism from the public. However, this fixture also comprises miraculous comebacks staged by the Germans during the World Cup 1970, and how this finally swung the momentum towards West Germany (as was then). This book covers forty years of press coverage from selected English and German newspapers and how they reported on matches between these two football national teams; it offers a perspective on how the German press covered the World Cup final of 1966 and how these papers reacted to the jingoism displayed by the English tabloids and embeds this into the wider Anglo/British-German relations"--

Sein Pinsel versetzte alles in Bewegung: die Landschaft der Provence, die farbintensiven Stillleben, seine Porträts, die pittoreske Küste Südfrankreichs. Paul Cézanne, der Vater der Moderne, fing wie kein Zweiter das Licht und Farbspiel des Südens in seinen Bildern ein und verlieh ihnen durch seine neue Bildsprache eine bis heute faszinierende Lebendigkeit und Dynamik. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) malte rund 80 Mal das nahe seiner Geburtsstadt Aix-en-Provence gelegene Gebirgsmassiv Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Das Spiel von Sonne und Schatten auf dem immer wieder anders wirkenden Gestein übersetzte er in Bilder an der Schwelle zur Abstraktion. Heute gelten sie als Ikonen der Kunstgeschichte und unterstreichen Cézannes Ruf als einen der wichtigsten Wegbereiter der Klassischen Moderne. Unzählige Künstler, darunter Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Braque und Léger, wurden von Cézannes Ideen zur Farbmodulation und Bildkonstruktion inspiriert.