Pamela Kort Books

The artist's work reflects the fragmented nature of contemporary life through a blend of analog and digital processes. During the lockdown, he created six large-scale collage paintings that reinterpret classic collage techniques, reminiscent of DADA's revolutionary use of photographic images from newspapers. These modern historical paintings combine paper prints with paint on canvas, showcasing his innovative approach. With a background in art from Washington University in St. Louis, he has exhibited at prestigious venues like the Vienna Secession and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Egon Schiele saw himself as a visionary and prophetic artist, Frantisek Kupka forged an abstract style of painting infused with spiritist principles, Joseph Beuys called under the rubric social sculpture for social change due to creative actions, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an ecological crusader whose spiral paintings were holistic in essence. These pioneering artistic attitudes and developments would have not come about without contact with several prophets. Some of these were artist-naturists, others were modern-day Christs, while still others saw themselves as social revolutionaries of a kind. Their relevance for modern art remains a largely untold story. Today, their names Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Gusto Gräser, Gustav Nagel, as well as Friedrich Muck-Lamberty and Ludwig Christian Haeusser have almost been forgotten

Eugen Schönebeck fertigte 1966 sein letztes Gemälde. Überzeugt, dass alles, was er zu sagen habe, auf Leinwand gebracht sei, zog er sich aus der Kunstwelt zurück. Seine im Kern unangepassten Gemälde sind im Wesentlichen existentialistischer Natur. Mit ihnen hinterfragte er nicht nur den Charakter und das Verhalten verschiedener 'Helden', sondern auch die Bedeutung künstlerischer Risikobereitschaft. Fasziniert von der Zweidimensionalität der Pop-art-Embleme, konterkarierte er die neutral-wohlwollende Haltung, die andere Künstler gegenüber der kapitalistischen Konsumkultur zeigten, und brachte einen Pantheon an Zeichen und Symbolen hervor, die ansonsten in Westdeutschland nicht behandelt wurden. Der Katalog stellt erstmalig als Werkverzeichnis das gesamte malerischen Œuvre vor sowie etwa 40 seiner Arbeiten auf Papier. Ein umfangreicher Essay präsentiert die erste umfassende Biographie des Künstlers und platziert ihn in den Kontext der soziopolitischen Ereignisse im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Der zum Teil auf persönlichen Gesprächen mit Schönebeck basierende Essay wirft ein völlig neues Licht auf eine individuelle Geschichte, die bis dahin ein Mysterium war.

Between 1947 and 1964 Joseph Beuys produced a swath of works on paper that, in their style, technique, and formal vocabulary, echo those of Auguste Rodin by way of his teacher and mentor, sculptor, Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Although Beuys's work remains very different from his predecessors', it does take up themes they had pursued, including the idea of the torso as an autonomous, enclosed form and of the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability. This book sets Beuys's works on paper and sculptures opposite the works on paper and sculptures of Rodin and Lehmbruck, and finds both striking affinities and autonomy.

Dieses Buch erscheint zur ersten großen Ausstellung von Jörg Immendorff in den U. S. A. Es zeigt in Werkauswahl und Essays Immendorff als einen der wichtigsten Vertreter der deutschen Nachkriegskunst, der imstande ist, auf künstlerische Art und Weise die politischen und gesellschaft-lichen Verhältnisse in Deutschland zu dekodieren. Galleries at Moore College for Art and Design, Philadelphia, Januar–März 2004

The year 2009 marks a double anniversary with regard to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). The world commemorates his 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his epoch-making work On the Origin of Species. This book revolutionized the science of biology, led to heated debates among scientists all over the world, and to confusion among the public at large. This book focuses on the influence of Darwinism in the visual arts. Using 150 paintings, drawings and lithographs, as well as rare documentary material as illustration, the catalogue shows artists like Frederic Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Franti_ek Kupka, Odilon Redon, George Frederic Watts, Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel von Max, Alfred Kubin and Max Ernst and bridges a chronological spectrum from 1859 to the mid-twentieth century.