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HIRMERPUBLISHERS AUTUMN 2017 PAINTING 1 » Unique analysis of Raphael’s working methods » New understanding of his drawing materials » With masterpieces from all creative periods from the world’s great museums. RAPHAEL Raphael is a true universal genius of the High Renaissance – whether as painter and Ed. A. Gnann Contributions by C. Whistler, architect in Florence and Rome or when commissioned by popes and princes. His master- B. Thomas ly drawings illustrate masterfully his thought processes and working methods from the sketch to the final composition. With some 150 drawings and paintings the volume assem- 448 pages, 270 illustrations in colour bles all the artist’s important projects. 24 × 30 cm, hardcover Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Raphael (1483-1520) is regarded as one £ 45.00 of the most important masters of art history. The drawings and paintings presented here are 978-3-7774-2859-8 October 2017 among his most important and beautiful works and provide an overview of all his creative periods, from his early years in Umbria to the years he spent in Florence and the period in Rome. This wealth of material enables an investigation of Raphael’s design methods and his preparatory process for his panel paintings, works of canvas and frescoes. An additional EXHIBITION focus lies on the materials he used in order to achieve specific tasks, including silverpoint, Albertina, Vienna pen, ink, charcoal and red chalk. 29.09.2017–07.01.2018 3 7 Studies of Heads and Hands, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 7 The Holy Family with the Lamb, 1507, Madrid, Museo del Prado, © Joseph S. Martín - ARTOTHEK 3The Vision of Ezekiel, 1516, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi PAINTING 5 » Spectacular exhibition highlight in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main » Magnificent tribute to the grand master of Flemish Baroque painting » Rubens’s rivalry with the greatest of his guild: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, Goltzius et al. PETER PAUL RUBENS The Power of Transformation Peter Paul Rubens is not only one of the most important painters of the Baroque; he is also Eds. G. Gruber, S. Weppelmann and J. Sander a virtuoso of the art of transformation. More than virtually any other artist he sought inspi- with contributions by ration in the works of other artists and was thus constantly reinventing his art in a highly G. Bisacca, N. Büttner, radical manner. Here you can look over Rubens’s shoulder and immerse yourself in the M. Daiman, A. Georgievska- Shine, G. Gruber, F. Healy, creative process through which his masterpieces took shape. N. van Hout, D. Jaffé, E. Oberthaler, G. Prast, The creative study of the important works of his predecessors and contemporaries occu- J. Sander, I. Slama, A. Vergara, pied Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) throughout his life and left its mark on the works he S. Weppelmann, J. Wood produced over a period of fifty years. The comparison of his works with sculptures from An- 336 pages, 292 illustrations in tiquity and the Renaissance, paintings by Titian and Tintoretto and prints by Raimondi and colour Goltzius reveals a fascinating view of Rubens’s surprising transformation of subjects, his 24 × 28 cm, hardcover new presentation of familiar pictorial themes and his skilled search for the right format. £ 45.00 Only thus does the exceptional talent of this great master become tangible. Rubens’s works 978-3-7774-2858-1 November 2017 continue to enchant the present-day viewer as directly as they did during his lifetime. EXHIBITION 3Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Cupid, ca. 1606/11, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza/Scala Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna 17.10.2017–21.01.2018 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main 08.02.–21.05.2018 7Titian, Ecce Homo, 1543, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien © KHM Museums-Verband 3Peter Paul Rubens, Drawing after Titian’s “Ecce Homo” © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington PAINTING 7 » Masterpieces on paper » In a new context: Bruegel and the pictorial tradition » First comprehensive index of Bruegel’s prints in the Albertina PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered the greatest Netherlandish graphic artist of the Eds. E. Michel and K. A. Schröder 16th century. Even during his lifetime his drawings were highly regarded and many were with contributions by widely distributed as references for copperplate engravings. Drawing on the pictorial tra- D. Hammer-Tugendhat, dition of earlier generations of artists, Bruegel introduced completely new ideas with re- E. Michel, L. Ritter gard to both subject and form. 224 pages, 168 illustrations in colour On the eve of the Dutch War of Independence against Spanish hegemony, in a time of politi- 23.5 × 28.5 cm, hardcover cal, social and religious change, Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525 – 1569) created an equally complex £ 38.00 pictorial world. Humorous and down-to-earth, sharp-witted and deeply critical, he reflected 978-3-7774- 2863-5 on the society of his time. The lavishly illustrated catalogue illuminates Bruegel’s artistic November 2017 origins and offers an overview of his entire graphical oeuvre which unites contrasting sub- jects such as “Peasant Bruegel”; Bruegel as the “second Hieronymus Bosch”; as an innovator in landscape art; and as a satirical moralist. EXHIBITION Albertina, Vienna 08.09.–03.12.2017 7 Spring, 1565, Albertina, Vienna 3Christ’s Descent into Hell, 1561, Albertina, Vienna Both photographs: Albertina, Vienna PAINTING 9 » Highly topical – The fight for democracy in the Weimar Republic as seen by the artists » High artistic quality – controversial content: the art of the 1920s from a socio-historical point of view » From Berlin to Munich and from Rostock to Hannover – A view of the capital and of the entire republic SPLENDOR AND MISERY IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC From Otto Dix to Jeanne Mammen From the glamour of the Golden Twenties to the depths of the dark side of a world under- Ed. I. Pfeiffer with contributions by A. Braune, going rapid change – the penetrating content of works by more than 60 artists recreates K. Hille, A. Lütgens, S. Moeller, the age of the Weimar Republic, big-city life and the entertainment scene as well as the O. Peters, I. Pfeiffer, D. Price, consequences of the First World War and socially controversial topics such as prostitu- M. Weinland tion, political struggle and social tensions. 320 pages, 200 illustrations in colour As the first German democracy, the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) is regarded as a time of 24 × 29 cm, hardcover crisis and transition – from the German Empire to the totalitarian regime of National Social- £ 45.00 ism. Numerous artists not only portrayed these years in their realistic representations, 978-3-7774-2933-5 which are ironical and grotesque as well as critical-analytical; they also aimed to comment December 2017 on the status quo and bring about social change. Works from Otto Dix and George Grosz via Conrad Felixmüller and Christian Schad to Dodo, Jeanne Mammen, Elfriede Lohse-Wächt- ler, famous artists and others waiting to be rediscovered, paint a multi-layered and political picture of the Weimar Republic. EXHIBITION Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 27.10.2017-25.02.2018 7George Grosz, Street Scene (Kurfürstendamm, Berlin), 1925, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017 PAINTING 11 » The artist as a chronicler of the glittering life in 1920s Berlin » From New Objectivity to Cubism as resistance to National Socialism » The life’s work of an indomitable loner in the 20th century JEANNE MAMMEN. THE OBSERVER Retrospective 1910–1975 The rediscovery of icons of the 1920s, “degenerate” experiments, magical-poetic abstrac- Eds. Th. Köhler and A. Lütgens with contributions by K. Aurich, tions – this wide-ranging publication shows the complete work of Jeanne Mammen J. Bertschik, G. Kühnast, (1890–1976), a Berlin artist on the threshold of the modern age. Her productive output Th. Köhler, A. Lütgens, mirrors the extreme circumstances she experienced, from war, destruction and poverty to S. Mainberger, E. Scharrer, D. Schöne, J. Schubert, the emergence from the ruins. C. Smith, C. Thiele, G, Wolter The Berlin painter and graphic artist Jeanne Mammen is one of the most awkward and co- 256 pages, 170 illustrations in lourful figures of recent German art history. Her complete oeuvre and the breaks it reveals colour 24 × 28.5 cm, hardcover with reflect and comment in an entertaining and critical way on the political and aesthetic up- dust jacket heavals of the last century. Mammen’s art is highly regarded in specialist circles far beyond the boundaries of Berlin and Germany. A monograph which has been in planning for twenty £ 39.95 978-3-7774-2912-0 years presents an overview of her life’s work to a broader public and leads viewers not only November 2017 deep into the 1920s, but also opens up surprising new perspectives on an outstanding artist of Classic Modernism. EXHIBITION Berlinische Galerie. Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin 06.10.2017–15.01.2018 3 7 Jeanne Mammen, Revue Girls, 1928/29, Berlinische Galerie, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017 7 Jeanne Mammen, Untitled [Self-Portrait], ca. 1926, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017 3Gert Ladewig, Jeanne Mammen in her studio, 1975; both images p. 11: Förderverein der Jeanne-Mammen-Stiftung e.V. PAINTING PAINTING/CULTURAL HISTORY » Portrait of the famous art collector Rudolf » Exclusive authorised publication: a first Leopold,