Download or read book Hitler s Last Hostages written by Mary M. Lane and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not only by harnessing the military but also by restricting artistic expression. Hitler, an artist himself, promised the dejected citizens of postwar Germany a purified Reich, purged of "degenerate" influences. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he removed so-called "degenerate" art from German society and promoted artists whom he considered the embodiment of the "Aryan ideal." Artists who had produced challenging and provocative work fled the country. Curators and art dealers organized their stock. Thousands of great artworks disappeared--and only a fraction of them were rediscovered after World War II. In 2013, the German government confiscated roughly 1,300 works by Henri Matisse, George Grosz, Claude Monet, and other masters from the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of one of Hitler's primary art dealers. For two years, the government kept the discovery a secret. In Hitler's Last Hostages, Mary M. Lane reveals the fate of those works and tells the definitive story of art in the Third Reich and Germany's ongoing struggle to right the wrongs of the past.

Download or read book The Munich Secession written by Maria Makela and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1892 the first art Secession in the German-speaking countries came into being in Munich, Central Europe's undisputed capital of the visual arts. Featuring the work of German painters, sculptors, and designers, as well as that of vanguard artists from around the world, the Munich Secession was a progressive force in the German art world for nearly a decade, its exhibitions regularly attended and praised by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and other modernists at the outset of their careers. "Those artists who were not included, or who thought themselves inadequately represented in the large official exhibitions held in the major German cities, had economic as well as aesthetic reasons for creating new outlets for their work.... The first of these Secessions [is] the subject of an interesting and well-researched study by Maria Makela."--James Joll, The New York Review of Books "Makela combines aesthetic analysis with institutional history, and does so very well. She has written the first thoroughly documented account of the Munich Secession in any language." --Peter Paret, The Art Bulletin ..".a carefully documented chronicle of the Munich Secession...an indispensable guide. It is a pioneering study that manages to be solid yet provocative..."--Brooks Adams, Art in America

Download or read book The Art of the Vienna Galleries written by David Charles Preyer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Degenerate Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kandinsky written by Wassily Kandinsky and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a representative selection of Kandinsky's exquisite watercolors, including rare, early works that have never been exhibited before, and dramatic pictures on dark backgrounds from the last years of Kandinsky's life. The authors, both of whom are leading Kandinsky experts, provide a wealth of information on the artist's early career, on his circle of colleagues, and on the extensive records he kept of the people who acquired and promoted his art. A chronology elucidates the crucial phases of Kandinsky's development.

Download or read book The Art of the Munich Galleries written by Florence Jean Ansell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Degenerate Art written by Olaf Peters and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. The book contains reflections on the genesis and evolution of the term "degenerate art" and details of the National Socialist policy on art. Art works from the exhibition Degenerate Art are compared to works of art from The Great German Art Exhibition, which was held at the same time and displayed the works of officially approved artists. The book also presents the after-effects of the attack on modernism that are felt even today.

Download or read book The Art of the Munich Galleries written by Florence Jean Ansell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of the Munich Galleries Being a History of the Progress of the Art of Painting written by Florence Jean Ansell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book D rer to de Kooning written by Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich houses one of the finest and most famous collections of drawings and prints in Germany, with holdings of around 400,000 works ranging from the fifteenth century to modernity. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, 100 Master Drawings from Munich comprises lush full-color illustrations of over one hundred of the museum's works of art. Demonstrating the impressive depth and breadth of works owned by the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, the works in this volume range from rough preparatory sketches to meticulously executed studies and encompass a variety of media, including silverpoint, chalk, ink, and aquarelle. Among the many extraordinary pieces are Old Dutch and German prints, nineteenth-century German drawings, and works by Dürer and Rembrandt. But equally not to be missed are the many compelling works of contemporary graphic art for which the museum is best known.

Download or read book The Neue Pinakothek Munich written by Christian Lenz and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neue Pinakothek (New Picture Gallery), the first public museum in Europe devoted exclusively to contemporary art, was founded by King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Ludwig took an active interest in contemporary art, especially German art throughout his reign

Download or read book Munich Art Hoard written by Catherine Hickley and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Cornelius Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation. Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis. Hickley recounts the shady history of the Gurlitt hoard and brings its story right up to date, as 21st-century politicians and lawyers puzzle over the inadequacies of a legal framework that to this day falls short in securing justice for the heirs of those robbed by the Nazis.

Download or read book The Munich Kunstkammer written by Katharina Pilaski and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Munich Kunstkammer was conceived as a central repository of knowledge about the world, and the territory of its founder Albrecht V. Katharina Pilaski Kaliardos focuses on the collection's functions in the larger context of the centralization of princely power and the territory's confessionalization in the wake of the Council of Trent.

Download or read book The Old Pinakothek in Munich written by Kurt Martin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of the Munich Galleries written by Florence Jean Ansell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of the Munich Galleries: Being a History of the Progress of the Art of Painting Illuminated and Demonstrated by Critical Descriptions of the Great Paintings in the Old Pinakothek, the New Pinakothek and the Schack Gallery in Munich Munich has long enjoyed a high reputation as a place of study and training for painters. Many masters of many lands owe thanks to the city for some of the knowledge which has brought them glory. This is due in great part to the excellent opportunities for study of the old masters afforded by the magnificent gallery, the old Pinakothek, which in some respects is unrivalled by any gallery of Europe. There exists in the world for example no such opportunity for the study of Rubens as in this gallery; nowhere will one find such a judiciously selected wealth of pictures covering so wide a range of schools and styles. But the Old Pinakothek is not all. The modern galleries contain superb collections, even though these are not to be compared in power with the older collection. The authors of the present volume do not lay claim to the preparation of a revolutionary treatise. The opinions expressed will be found to follow in the main accepted judgments, necessarily tempered by personal likes and preferences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.