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Caspar David Friedrich
This book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.
Stop Reading! Look!
Examines the connections between the emergence of Weimar photographic books and modern conceptions of photographic meaning
Magnus Von Plessen
Since the late 90s, Magnus von Plessen has investigated the possibilities of painting after the age of photography. In small-format pictures of rooms, persons and rudimentary scenes, the artist's painting technique is deliberate, its apparent casualness really controlled. The strange and special quality of the painted picture is set in contradistinction to the world of media-dominated imagery.
Uwe Hand: Painter
Uwe Hand?s (*1952) painting is unique. His images open up vast spaces for the imagination.. It almost seems, as if the elements of nature have been transformed into painting. Masterly and in countless layers, colors, pigments and even sand are applied, abrasively excavated, and rebuild again until an image comes into being: abysmal in its surreal and dreamy motives, graceful in its rugged materiality. Ranging from the Baroque to the films of Hitchcock, Tarkovsky and David Lynch, Uwe Hand creates paintings so intriguing that one hardly wants to turn away.00Exhibition: Cermak Eisenkraft Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (30.11.2018 - 14.02.2019).
Retrospective
Saul Leiter (*1923 in Pittsburgh) erfährt erst seit wenigen Jahren die verdiente Würdigung als einer der führenden Pioniere der Farbfotografie. Das mag daran liegen, dass Leiter sich selbst lange in erster Linie als Maler verstand. 1946 nach New York gekommen, stellte er gemeinsam mit Abstrakten Expressionisten wie Willem de Kooning aus. In den späten 1940er-Jahren begann er, neben der Malerei schwarzweiß zu fotografieren. Wie Robert Frank oder Helen Levitt fand er seine Motive auf den Straßen New Yorks, war dabei aber sichtbar an Abstraktion interessiert. Edward Steichen war einer der ersten, der Leiters Fotografien entdeckte und sie in den 1950er-Jahren in zwei wichtigen Fotoausstell...
