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Katharina Grosse (* 1961) schafft in drei historischen Räumlichkeiten der Albertina begehbare Kunstwerke. Die vibrierenden Farbfelder breiten sich auf Wand, Decke und Boden aus, überschreiten räumliche und gedankliche Grenzen. Sie überwältigen durch ihre Kraft, Intensität und die schiere Größe. Der Katalog dokumentiert die dreidimensionale Bildwelt mit detailreichen Installationsfotos und Bildern aus dem Atelier. Expansion und permanente Grenzüberschreitung, Freiheit und Autonomie bilden die Grundpfeiler von Grosses Œuvre. Wie das wilde Denken ist ihr Schaffen experimentell und unberechenbar. Zahlreiche Fotos aus dem privaten Archiv der Künstlerin bieten Einblick in Ihre Arbeitsweise, Inspirationsquellen und Ideenfindungsprozesse.

Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s— influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York scene as well as idyllic landscapes. Printmaking plays an equally central role in Katz’s work. He uses lithographs, etchings, silkscreens, woodcuts and linocuts to reproduce, reflect and further reduce his bold aesthetic, while retaining the radiant color characteristic for his paintings. Since the first edition in 2011, Katz has almost doubled his output of prints—this timely new edition includes his complete prints, cutout editions, artists’ books, and also lists his works of applied art like book illustrations and public art projects. New essays and interviews with the artist give profound insights into the work of one of the foremost American artists of the present. When ALEX KATZ (*1927, New York City) began his artistic career in the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the reigning style. Ahead of his time, he created stylized portraits against flat, monochrome backgrounds. From 1965 onwards, he embarked on a prolific career in printmaking, exhausting all its possibilities: from traditional craftsmanship to state-of-the-art reproduction techniques.

The Principality of Liechtenstein in the heart of Europe is famous for its medieval castles and charming Alpine landscapes and villages. On the occasion of its 300th anniversary, the Albertina in Vienna is hosting a comprehensive exhibition. The works presented here illustrate the remarkable spectrum of Liechtenstein’s collection policy. The unique holdings of the Princely Collections are thus presented for the first time in such detail in this two-volume publication. Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein im Herzen Europas ist bekannt für seine mittelalterlichen Burgen und seine reizvollen Alpenlandschaften und Dörfer. Die Hauptstadt Vaduz ist seit langem ein Zentrum der Kultur und Finanzwirtschaft. Anlässlich seines 300jährigen Bestehens zeigt die Albertina in Wien, der Stadt, in der die Liechtensteinische Fürstenfamilie bis zum Jahr 1938 lebte, eine umfangreiche Ausstellung. Die im vorliegenden Band repräsentierten Werke illustrieren das bemerkenswerte Spektrum fürstlicher Sammlungspolitik – von Peter Paul Rubens berühmter Venus vor dem Spiegel über ausgewählte Kunstschätze der herausragenden Biedermeierkollektion bis zu den spektakulären Neuerwerbungen der letzten 15 Jahre. Die einzigartigen Bestände der Sammlungen werden dem Leser in einer zweibändigen Publikation erstmals umfassend vorgestellt.

A wider public discovery of the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) is long overdue. Known as a significant representative of naïve art, his remarkable story includes painting for inns and pubs. While largely unknown outside Georgia, his work was exhibited alongside notable artists like Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Marc Chagall in the 1913 exhibition Mischén (Target) in Moscow, where he earned the title “Rousseau of the East.” Pirosmani’s unique visual vocabulary features consistently reduced formal elements: set against a black background, the primary colors of red, blue, yellow, green, and white create refined effects that immediately engage viewers. The Albertina in Vienna is hosting a significant retrospective of Pirosmani, marking the first major examination of his paintings in the heart of Europe in a long time, exploring his work within the broader context of art history. This exhibition runs from October 26, 2018, to January 27, 2019, at the Albertina, followed by a display at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles from March 2 to October 20, 2019.

The presentation Masterworks of architectural drawing provides new insights into this fascinating genre: a selection of around 120 highlights from the Albertina's important collection of architecture-related works covers a period running from the Late Gothic and the Renaissance to the Baroque and Classicism, to Historicism and Art Nouveau, and continuing all the way to the architecture of the present day. World-famous drawings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Theophil von Hansen, Adolf Loos, Frank Lloyd Wright, Clemens Holzmeister or Hans Hollein and many others reveal the essence and unique qualities of architectural sketches while also showing painters' compositional takes on and naturalistic perceptions of buildings, architectural ensembles, and cities.

Eduard Angeli ist ein Meister des großformatigen Tafelbildes. Charakteristisch für die Werke der 1980er und 1990er Jahre sind geometrische Farbflächen, die innerhalb einer magischen Beleuchtung eine rätselhafte Bühne ohne Akteure bilden.

Am Vorabend des niederländischen Unabhängigkeitskampfes gegen die spanische Herrschaft, in einer Zeit der politischen, sozialen und religiösen Umbrüche, entwarf Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525 – 1569) eine ebenso komplexe Bildwelt. Humorvoll und volksnah, scharfsinnig und zutiefst kritisch reflektierte er die Gesellschaft seiner Zeit. Der reich bebilderte Katalog beleuchtet Bruegels künstlerische Ursprünge und bietet einen Überblick über sein gesamtes grafisches Schaffen, das so gegensätzliche Themen wie den »Bauern-Bruegel«, Bruegel als »zweiter Hieronymus Bosch«, als Erneuerer der Landschaftskunst sowie als satirischen Moralisten in sich vereint.

140 masterpieces of painting demonstrate the parallel development of widely different styles, design principles and aesthetic ideas. The avant-garde artists influenced each other and were sometimes in conflict with each other. At the same time you could find advocates of representational Expressionism and supporters of pure abstraction; styles like Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism followed each other in succession. Surprising contrasts of works visualize the differences, so that the successive conflicting -isms are clearly demonstrated. Through this visual confrontation the picture of all the many different forms of Russian avant-garde come alive. With works by Altman,Chagall, Exter, Gontscharowa, Griogorijew, Kandinsky, Larionow, Lissitzky, Malewitsch, Petrow-Wodkin, Popowa, Rodtschenko and many ohters. Exhibition: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (26.02-26.06.2016).

With their pioneering method using dots, the artists of Pointillism no longer directed their gaze only towards the imitation of reality. In their paintings between 1886 and 1930 their dots, colour and light assumed an independent existence to create masterpieces of unprecedented brightness and colour diversity. The works by the inventors of this technique, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, marked the beginning of this exuberant outburst of colour. Works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Carlo Carrá, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee demonstrate how artists made a study of Pointillism during the 20th century. Vincent van Gogh contributed to the way that modernist painters abandoned Pointillism. More than 100 selected works, including paintings, watercolours and drawings, illuminate the dawn of a new era which this art movement was responsible for bringing about: the beginning of modern painting.