Rainer Metzger Books

The complete van Gogh Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. He lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation—finally killing himself by a bullet to the chest, so great was his despair—and is now widely considered one of the most important painters of all time, his works fetching record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction. This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) represents a rarity in art a detailed monograph on his life and art combined with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings. This volume also reproduces most of van Gogh's paintings in color for the first time.

Vincent van Gogh s Schicksal ist eine Tragödie der Kunstgeschichte. Heute gilt er als einer der wichtigsten Maler aller Zeiten, Ausstellungen seiner Werke sind stets ausverkauft, die ihm gewidmeten Museen gefeiert, und seine Werke erzielen auf Auktionen Preise im zweistelligen Millionenbereich. Doch zu Lebzeiten, als er die Leinwände bemalte, die später zu Meisterwerken der Moderne werden würde, hatte Van Gogh nicht nur mit dem Desinteresse seiner Zeitgenossen zu kämpfen, sondern auch mit schweren Anfällen psychischer Krankheit: Depressionen und lähmende Angstzustände, die ihn schließlich dazu brachten, sich im Jahr 1890, kurz nach seinem 37. Geburtstag, das Leben zu nehmen. Diese umfassende Studie über Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) verbindet eine detailreiche Monografie seines Lebens und Werks mit dem vollständigen Werkkatalog seiner 871 Gemälde.

Vincent van Gogh lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation, and is now widely considered one of the most important painters of all time. This is a detailed monograph of his life and art combined with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

Heutzutage gehören die Werke von Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) zu den bekanntesten und teuersten der Welt. Seine Sonnenblumen , Die Sternennacht oder Selbstbildnis mit verbundenem Ohr kennt auch, wer sich sonst nicht für Kunst interessiert. Sie sind tatsächlich Teil des westlichen Bildgedächtnisses geworden. Doch wenn er seine grellen Farben, druckvollen Pinselstriche und klar umrissenen Formen , die später seinen Ruf begründen und Generationen expressionistischer Künstler inspirieren sollten, auf die Leinwand brachte, kämpfte van Gogh nicht nur gegen das Desinteresse seiner Zeitgenossen an, sondern auch gegen innere Dämonen und Anfälle geistiger Verwirrung . Er litt zunehmend unter Depressionen und Angstzuständen und nahm sich 1890, kurz nach seinem 37. Geburtstag, das Leben. Diese Einführung verfolgt Vincent van Goghs Lebenslauf von seinen künstlerischen Anfängen über seine Pariser Periode bis hin zu seinem letzten fieberhaften Energieausbruch in Südfrankreich während der letzten zweieinhalb Jahre seines Lebens.

An introduction to the life and work of twentieth-century Russian artist Marc Chagall, discussing his cultural and historical importance, and including a chronology and over one hundred color illustrations with explanatory captions

A selection of some of the master draftsman's most significant drawings and watercolors includes several of his rarely reproduced erotic works to present a more balanced representation of his oeuvre, in a volume that offers insight into his creative process and motivation.

The book covers the five stages of the artist's life and work - Russia : the early years 1887-1910; the Paris years 1910-1914; war and revolution in Russia 1914-1923; France and America 1923-1948; and the late work 1948-1985. It also includes a chronology of Chagall's life.

Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising essays on the key movements and figures of the era, this book presents a portrait of this cultural ferment and its most important protagonists

From the early gloom-laden paintings to the works of his final years under a southern sun in Arles "This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The man was Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), a vicar's son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists. Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long. His truest friend was his brother Theo, who supported him unstintingly throughout and followed him to the grave just six months later. This richly illustrated study by two experts on Van Gogh follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, through the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris, to the work of his final years under a southern sun in Arles, where he at last found the light that produced the unmistakable Van Gogh style. At Arles, Saint-R

Examines the life and art of nineteenth-century Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and features color reproductions of his complete catalogue of 871 paintings, as well as an illustrated chronology of his life from 1853 to 1890