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  • Ein Buchcover aus strukturiertem Stoff mit einem alten Schwarz-Weiß-Foto der Künstler Anna-Eva Bergman und Hans Hartung, die an einem Strand stehen. Der Titel lautet We'll Never Be Parted.
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    Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung And We'll Never Be Parted
    This catalogue is the first comprehensive presentation of the lives and works of the artist couple Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung, who were connected by shared interests such as nature, cosmos, and music. Anna-Eva Bergman had Swedish-Norwegian roots and was a pioneering abstract artist who drew inspiration from landscapes and natural forms. Hans Hartung, born in Germany, played a significant role in the development of gestural-abstract art in Europe. Based on drawings, paintings, archive documents, and photographs, their two biographies are traced: from their first encounter in the 1920s, through a long separation, to their reunion in 1952 and both their deaths in the 1980s.

    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.
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  • Caspar David Friedrich. Karlsruher Skizzenbuch (Schmuckausgabe)
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    Caspar David Friedrich. Karlsruher Skizzenbuch (Schmuckausgabe)
    The acquisition of the Karlsruhe Sketchbook by a German museum consortium and the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation in 2023 was an art-historical sensation. It is the last known sketchbook by Friedrich in private hands – and one of only six surviving sketchbooks worldwide by the most significant painter of German Romanticism.

    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.
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  • Das Cover des Buches Italian Architectural Drawings von Anna Bortolozzi zeigt eine detaillierte, historische Architekturzeichnung einer Fassade mit Bögen und Säulen.
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    Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

    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.

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  • Eine klassische, skizzenhafte Zeichnung von geflügelten, muskulösen mythologischen Figuren auf dem Buchcover Götter, Helden und Verräter.
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    Götter, Helden und Verräter
    Until the early 19th century, history painting, imbued with pathos, was considered the highest genre of art. With a moral claim—in Schiller's sense, to have an educational effect on the mind—the drawings condense significant moments from religious and mythological narratives. Human emotion and action literally become an artistic image of history. With the sheets assembled here, the Albertina unites outstanding works that mark the beginning of what is now the world's most important graphic arts collection. Its founder, Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, collected at the pulse of his time: Following his particular interest in drawings, studies, sketches, and large-format works on paper, he acquired the works directly and often personally in the studios of artists such as Jacques-Louis David, Anton Raphael Mengs, Antonio Canova, Angelika Kauffmann, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, and Johann Heinrich Füssli, or at the major academy exhibitions of his time.
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  • Das Cover des Buches HOPPER zeigt Edward Hoppers Gemälde Gas, das einen Mann an einer Tankstelle am Waldrand in der Abenddämmerung darstellt.
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    Edward Hopper

    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.

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    Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
    ​January 26–September 20, 2020

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  • Ein textiles Buchcover für Sofie Dawo mit schwarzen, herabhängenden Fäden und einem orangefarbenen Buchrücken.
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    Sofie Dawo
    Sofie Dawo was one of the most important artists in concrete textile art in the second half of the 20th century. With a willingness to experiment and based on the principles of the Bauhaus, she developed her own artistic position. She radically turned away from traditional forms of weaving and explored the essential properties of both established and new materials in her works, often in series. The characteristics of her fabrics and materials formed the basis for moving beyond the two-dimensionality of the woven surface and into space.
    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.
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