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Beat Stutzer
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Alberto Giacometti neu gesehen
Taken by such celebrated photographers as May Ray, Henri Cartier Bresson, and Cecil Beaton, the photographs show Giacometti as a young artist bursting with energy during his first stay in Paris; at work at his legendary studios in Paris and his native Val Bregaglia in Switzerland; lighthearted in the company of his wife, Annette, or in discussion with friends; posing with his sculptures; and in silent dialogue with his models. The drawings are mainly sketches on pages from newspapers and magazines. The entire collection, along with the analyses and commentary presented here, greatly enriches our understanding of Alberto Giacometti as both an artist and a person.
Franz Bucher. Picture Fields
Illuminates and analyzes Franz Bucher's oeuvre as a whole against the backdrop of his recent works. In recent years, Swiss artist Franz Bucher has produced an extensive series of paintings that he simply titles Fields: lavender, dandelion, rapeseed, and poppy fields congruent with the canvas to form a pictorial field. Yet Bucher's objective is not primarily the pictorial. Rather, it is more about the two-dimensional space which is given an inherent structure by the largely monochromatic primary colors he uses, as well as his dynamic brushstroke. It becomes apparent that most of the artist's oeuvre since the early 1970s has been determined by the metrical rhythm in his use of color. Bucher's paintings constitute actual energy fields. This new book offers a retrospective of Bucher's entire body of work from the vantage point of his recent pictorial fields. Franz Bucher. Picture Fields thus illustrates his true artistic intentions independently of the context of his chosen motifs.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Friends
Ernst Kirchner, seminal expressionist painter and founding member of the influential artists' collective Die Brücke, came to the Swiss mountains during World War I to recuperate from a nervous breakdown.Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his Friends is the first book to explore how Kirchner became a role model, teacher, and mentor for younger artists during his time in Davos. The momentous artistic exchange between Kirchner and his young admirers--whose ranks included the German Philipp Bauknecht, the Dutch Jan Wiegers, and the members of the Swiss Gruppe Rot-Blau--established a dialogue that had a formative influence on the direction of European art in the twentieth century. This matchless volume provides a record of the extraordinary bond that developed between a legendary--yet ailing--artist and the up-and-coming Gruppe Rot-Blaue in Switzerland.
Lenz Klotz
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HR Giger
Der Schweizer Künstler HR Giger ist ein weltweit gefeierter Designer, seit er 1979 das Monster und die speziellen Raumatmosphären für Ridley Scotts Science-Fiction-Klassiker “Alien” schuf. Weit weniger bekannt ist, dass Giger davor ein Shooting-Star der europäischen Kunstszene war, der international ausstellte und von Kunstmarktgrössen wie dem Warhol-Galeristen Bruno Bischofberger gesammelt wurde. Mit seinem Phantastischen Realismus nahm Giger eine der eigenständigsten Positionen in der Nachfolge des Surrealismus und in der Kunstszene der 1960er und 1970er Jahre ein. Erstmals wird das Frühwerk von HR Giger in einem Buch detailliert präsentiert. Der Katalog studiert Gigers Schaffen von den Ursprüngen her und ordnet es in eine Kunstgeschichte des Grauens ein. Das Spektrum reicht von frühen Zeichnungen bis zu ersten Werken in Spritzpistolentechnik und zu beklemmenden Environments. Viele der im Buch gezeigten Werke Gigers waren noch nie oder sehr selten öffentlich zu sehen und treten in einen Dialog mit Arbeiten von Vorläufern wie Piranesi, Goya, Klinger, Ensor oder Füssli.
Albert Steiner
"Albert Steiner (1877-1965) was one of the outstanding Swiss photographers of the 20th century. His impressive scenic photographs have fundamentally shaped our perception of Switzerland as an alpine country of timeless beauty. Like Ansel Adams, he translated his artistic vision of mountains, their flora and imposing natural phenomena, onto a black-and-white surface to reveal nature in all its majesty. Steiner's photographic work spans the period from before World War I, with its pictorially inspired images that look like oil paintings, to the straightforward and elegantly modern photography of the 1930s. Unlike other Swiss photographers of his generation, Steiner considered himself to be an artist. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, he saw photography as a completely appropriate means of creating works of art."--BOOK JACKET.
HR Giger
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The Laboratory of Progress
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impove...
HR Giger
The only book to date to study HR Giger's art before his legendary work in Ridley Scott's Alien. Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (1940-2014) was catapulted to international fame in 1979 for designing the inimitable creatures and otherworldly environments that terrified moviegoers who watched Ridley Scott's Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a Hollywood celebrity, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes. HR Giger:The Oeuvre Before Alien is the only book to date to document the artist's lesser-known work. The new edition of this richly illustrated book traces Giger's career from his education t...
