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Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) was a Scandinavian artist known for her landscape-inspired abstractions and the use of gold leaf in her art. Her works often recall rocks, trees, or other natural forms she encountered on her extensive travels. Bergman also worked as a photographer, printmaker, and architect.
Hans Hartung (1904–1989) was one of the most important representatives of abstract painting in Germany. His gestural style contributed to the rise of Art Informel in Europe. At the 1960 Venice Biennale, he was awarded the Grand International Prize for Painting. His works are held in important international collections.
This extraordinary artist's document from around 1804 offers an immediate insight into the crucial phase of Friedrich's artistic development. During his walks through Dresden and the surrounding landscape, he captured impressions of nature, motifs, and atmospheric studies – sketches that later formed the basis of iconic paintings.
The 33 surviving drawings provide unique access to Friedrich's way of seeing, thinking, and artistic process. The high-quality deluxe edition makes this rare sketchbook accessible in a particularly true-to-original form:
- Complete, true-to-original facsimile reproduction of all 33 drawings
- Historical original format with characteristic rounded corners
- Companion booklet with a well-founded art-historical introduction
- Presentation of the sketchbook and companion booklet in a high-quality box
Design, material, and craftsmanship are consistently geared towards the greatest possible proximity to the historical original. The edition not only conveys motifs but also makes Friedrich's artistic thought and working process tangible.
This preferential edition is aimed at art lovers, collectors, libraries, and institutions who wish to own a central document of Romanticism in bibliophile quality.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) was born in Greifswald, studied at the Art Academy in Copenhagen, and settled in Dresden from 1798. His landscape compositions testify to great introspection and melancholy. Friedrich demanded a new visual awareness from viewers; at the same time, his works elude clear interpretation, always offering new avenues for understanding.
This catalogue presents the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, discussing 181 drawings dating from around 1570 to around 1620. Among them are works by Francesco da Volterra, Carlo Maderno and other Roman architects, executed for churches, chapels, palaces, gardens, and fountains—many constituting primary and almost unknown sources for late Mannerist and early Baroque architecture. Also included are plans and architectural details by French draughtsmen, meticulously documenting ancient monuments, as well as buildings by the Renaissance masters Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Vignola.
Italian Architectural Drawings proposes new attributions in the light of recent scholarship, based on close examination of the drawings’ material (paper, medium, technique, mounting). Comparative illustrations and a photographic catalogue of the watermarks complete the volume.
The NATIONALMUSEUM STOCKHOLM is Sweden’s largest art museum and contains some 700,000 works of art. The collection focuses on painting, sculpture, works on paper, and design objects from the sixteenth century to the present.
Edward Hopper’s world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. He began his career as an illustrator and became famous around the globe for his oil paintings. They testify to his great interest in the effects of color and his mastery in depicting light and shadow. The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its large exhibition in the spring of 2020 to Hopper’s iconic images of the vast American landscape. The catalogue gathers together all of the paintings, watercolors, and drawings from the 1910s to the 1960s on display in the exhibition, and supplements them with essays focused on the subject of depicting landscape.
EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism. His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American modernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers, and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this very day.
EXHIBITION
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
January 26–September 20, 2020
This publication draws from the estate of her long-overlooked oeuvre, which includes not only woven pieces but also previously unknown drawings. Both groups of works demonstrate how much Sofie Dawo understood her weaving as an autonomous genre.
SOFIE DAWO (1926–2010) was a visual artist and art educator. After studying textile design at the State School for Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken, she initially designed works for industry before teaching weaving and fabric printing, and from the early 1970s onwards, also design.