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Ludwig Meidner
A master of the expressionist portrait, Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) painted numerous portraits during the 1910s and '20s of his many acquaintances in German-Jewish intellectual circles, evidencing his broad literary and artistic networks. This book brings them all vividly together to offer a full picture of Meidner's life and influences. Ludwig Meidner: Encounters examines Meidner's portraits during this period and reveals the many writers, musicians, and fellow artists who were his friends during the years before and during the Weimar Republic. Among the two hundred color plates included are portraits of such significant figures as Leo Baeck, Bella Chagall, Max Herrmann-Neiße, and Max Reinhardt. The selected works reveal the impressive breadth of the scope of Meidner's work and are essential for understanding his oeuvre as a whole.
Eavesdropper on an Age
Zum 50. Todesjahr des jüdischen Künstlers Ludwig Meidner richtet sich der Blick auf seine Arbeiten der Londoner Exilzeit von 1939 bis 1953 - Skizzenbücher, Aquarelle, Kohle- und Kreidezeichnungen, die unter schwierigsten äußeren Bedingungen entstanden. Sie stellen eine Mischung aus innerem Erleben und Zeitkommentar von höchster Intensität dar. Mit schonungsloser Direktheit ebenso wie mit symbolhafter Verdichtung handeln diese Werke von Schrecken, Isolation, Verfolgung und Vernichtung und einer grotesk-absurden Welt, die Meidner mit Spott und bissigem Humor, mit Sarkasmus und bizarrer Übertreibung eigenwillig in Szene setzte.
Ludwig Meidner
English summary: Ludwig Meidner's Apocalyptic Landscapes are key works of urban Expressionism. Also in his portraits, he captures the spirit of the Expressionist era in an unsurpassed intensity. The catalogue raisonne documents the first phase of his work as a painter, which begins in Paris in 1906 and ends in the mid-1920s with his return to Judaism and immersion in religious subjects. German description: Ludwig Meidners Apokalyptische Landschaften gelten als Schlusselwerke des urbanen Expressionismus. Aber auch in seinen Portrats - insbesondere den zahlreichen Selbstportrats - gelingt es ihm, den Geist der expressionistischen Epoche in unubertroffen intensiver Weise einzufangen. Das Werkverzeichnis dokumentiert uber 200 Gemalde aus der ersten Phase seines malerischen Schaffens, die 1906 in Paris beginnt und Mitte der 1920er Jahre mit seinem Gang in die Stille endet. Pinsel und Palette kommen in den folgenden 25 Jahren nur selten zum Einsatz, unter anderem, weil ihm die Nationalsozialisten als judischem Kunstler Malverbot erteilen und spater im englischen Exil die materiellen Voraussetzungen fur das Malen in Ol fehlen.
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Traces of a Jewish Artist
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biography recovers Szalit’s life and presents a stunning collection of her art. Szalit was a sought-after artist. Highly regarded by art historians and critics of her day, she made a name for herself with soulful, sometimes humorous illustrations of Jewish and world literature by Sholem Aleichem, Heinrich ...
Art of the 20th Century
The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.
A History of Modern Germany Since 1815
Germany continues to fascinate us into the twenty-first century because, unlike the history or national existence of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state until late in the nineteenth century? How did Germany become an industrial power? What responsibility does Germany bear for the two World Wars? This accessible but authoritative study attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions through looking at the economic, social, political and cultural forces which have created modern Germany. The 1848 revolutions ushered in an age of Realism which saw rapid economic development and the creation of the Bismarckian empire....
The End of Expressionism
"Weinstein explores the attitudes and organizations of artists and architects in Berlin, Munich, and Dresden in response to the tumultuous events associated with the end of WWI and the (failed) Revolution. She traces the initial excitement and zeal and then the disillusionment as utopian dreams were dimmed by social, political, and military realities as well as by inherent contradiction within the arts movements itself. The accompanying b&w illustrations, fascinating in themselves, directly depict textual themes."—Booknews
