HIRMERPUBLISHERS SPRING 2017 PAINTING 3 DISCOVERY OF A GREAT AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONIST THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE RETROSPECTIVE ON RICHARD GERSTL IN EUROPE AND THE USA CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF GERSTL’S APPROX. 70 WORKS RICHARD GERSTL Eds. I. Pfeiffer and J. Lloyd in cooperation with R. Coffer The Viennese artist Richard Gerstl is still regarded as being an insider Essays by R. Coffer, tip. And yet he was one of the most important artists in Vienna in around P. Demandt, J. Kallir, 1900, alongside Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. Although he was only 25 D. Leopold, J. Lloyd, I. Pfeiffer, M. Sitte years old when he died, he created an exciting and unusual oeuvre. This volume accompanying the first comprehensive retrospective at the Neue 192 pages 200 colour illustrations Galerie in New York introduces all the aspects of this exceptional artist. 23.5 × 28 cm, hardcover The artistic career of Richard Gerstl (1883–1908) extended over only approximately five years. During £ 42.00 978-3-7774-2754-6 his lifetime he refused to allow his work to be exhibited in any way. As a result of his dramatic early June 2017 death by his own hand many of his works were destroyed and almost no personal belongings have survived. The present work on his entire oeuvre finally fills the gap this has left. In his subjects – Exhibition portraits, landscapes and nude paintings, including the first nude self-portrait by an artist since Frankfurt | Schirn Kunsthalle Dürer – Gerstl succeeded in freeing his style from that of Salon painting. He applied the paint in an 24.2.–14.5.2017 increasingly pastose and free manner and created pictures which are regarded as some of the most New York | Neue Galerie modern works of his time. 29.6.–25.9.2017 Richard Gerstl, Self-Portrait, laughing, 1907, Belvedere, Vienna © Belvedere, Vienna Richard Gerstl, The Sisters Karoline and Pauline Fey, 1905, Belvedere, Vienna © Belvedere, Vienna DRAWING 5 NEW APPROACHES TO THE INTERPRETATION OF SCHIELE’S ALLEGORICALLY ENCODED WORKS A UNIQUE OVERVIEW OF SCHIELE’S DEVELOPMENT AS A GRAPHIC ARTIST AND WATERCOLOURIST TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF SCHIELE’S DEATH IN 2018: WITH WORKS FROM THE ALBERTINA, COMPLEMENTED BY PRESTIGIOUS LOANS EGON SCHIELE Eds. K. A. Schröder, J. T. Ambrózy DRAWING THE WORLD With contributions by Egon Schiele (1890–1918) is considered to be one of the pioneers of J. Th. Ambrózy, K. A. Austrian modernism together with Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Schröder Coinciding with the start of the commemoration of the centenary of 304 pages 200 colour illustrations his death, this volume will approach Schiele’s fascinating works from 24 × 30 cm, hardcover a new perspective and will also introduce a paradigm change in the £ 42.00 interpretation of his oeuvre. 978-3-7774-2764-5 May 2017 Inspiration from Schiele’s private circumstances as well as from the art of antiquity, the Byzantine period and even the age of the Baroque will help to provide the key to understanding Schiele’s Exhibition pictorial allegories, which have remained enigmatic to this day. In the light of the latest Schiele Vienna | Albertina research the artist will no longer be presented as the disturbingly penetrating portraitist of 22.2.–18.6.2017 existential loneliness, but at the same time also as a champion of lofty ethics and passionate spirituality. Egon Schiele, The Cellist, 1910, Albertina, Vienna Egon Schiele, Old Houses in Český Krumlov, 1914, Albertina, Vienna CONTEMPORARY ART 7 FASCINATING ENCOUNTER WITH THE CREATIVE WORK AND THOUGHT OF SHERRIE LEVINE SYSTEMATIC ARTISTIC FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKS BY PROMINENT ICONIC ARTISTS TO CREATE AN AUTONOMOUS OEUVRE CELEBRATES THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RETROSPECTIVE OF THE ARTIST’S WORKS IN EUROPE SHERRIE LEVINE Ed. Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für AFTER ALL Kunst und Design Nuremberg The American artist Sherrie Levine realises in her works the With contributions by K. Heymer, J. Heynen, artistic praxis of appropriating, repeating and varying famous M. Kliege earlier artworks. At the same time in doing so she creates her own English-German edition new oeuvre. Beyond the mere copy she further develops the works conceptually and with historical clichés, presenting it to the viewer 192 pages 129 illustrations for reconsideration. 24 × 30 cm, softcover with flaps Sherrie Levine (* 1947) is a photographer, painter and sculptor and is celebrated above all in the £ 49.95 United States. When we first consider her works we think of the imitation and interpretation of the 978-3-7774-2802-4 reference works, but our conclusions about the copy soon disappear in favour of a new, autonomous May 2017 original. The volume shows over 50 works “after” artists like Duchamp, Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh and Mondrian, from whose masterpieces Sherrie Levine has created something new. Exhibition In addition art experts place her work in context, for example with regard to her choice of subject Nuremberg | Neues Museum, or her methods of reproduction. Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design 28.10.2016–12.2.2017 Sherrie Levine, Black and White Bottles, 1992 Sherrie Levine, Robert Gober, Checkerboard on Table, 1989/90 Both works: Private collection Photographs: Anette Kradisch, Nuremberg © Sherrie Levine CONTEMPORARY ART 9 MONOGRAPH ON KATHARINA SIEVERDING, PIONEER OF LARGE-FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY AN OVERVIEW OF HER SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS FROM 1967 UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION OF HER INNOVATIVE OEUVRE KATHARINA SIEVERDING Ed. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der ART AND CAPITAL Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH The German photographer Katharina Sieverding is one of the celebrated international artists who made use of unusual pictorial With contributions by Th. Ebers, U. Frohne, invention and innovative media-based artistic praxis from an early H. J. Hafner, S. Kleine, G. Schröder stage in order to revive the artistic potential of photography. This volume, designed to a large extent by the artist herself, presents English-German edition 42 groups of works from the years 1967–2017. 256 pages 300 illustrations Sieverding became famous for the unparalleled consistency with which she has applied her greatly 24.5 × 28 cm, hardcover enlarged portraits in film and photographs since the 1960s by manipulating them in a variety of £ 39.95 ways. Since the 1970s she has developed large-format montages on the state of the world which 978-3-7774-2808-6 were presented to the public for the first time at documenta 6 in 1977. In doing so she challenges May 2017 the accelerated picture processes of the present day in a critical manner and in the light of responsibility, also towards herself. Her oeuvre is spotlighted from all angles in illustrations of her Exhibition works, details and installation photos as well as texts on the use of media, the self-portrait and Bonn | Bundeskunsthalle 10.3.–16.7.2017 analogue and digital photography. Katharina Sieverding, Maton, 1969-1972, 300 x 252 cm Katharina Sieverding, Ohne Titel I-III (Untitled I-III), 1996, each 300 x 500 cm All works: © Katharina Sieverding / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016, photographs: © Klaus Mettig PHOTOGRAPHY 11 SENSATIONAL - THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON WEEGEE TO DATE NEW YORK IN LEGENDARY AND RECENTLY DISCOVERED PICTURES WITH ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER EXTRA! WEEGEE Ed. Daniel Blau No other photographer has caught the sensations, scandals and With contributions by R. Adams, D. Blau, H. Corey, catastrophes of the 1930s and 1940s in New York City with his S. Picasso camera as captivatingly as Weegee. He was always directly on the 320 pages spot when it happened and documented the events and the onlookers. 620 illustrations, thereof 300 slugs All the works come from the N.E.A. agency archive, which was only 30 × 24 cm, hardcover rediscovered in 2012; most of the vintage prints are being published £ 45.00 for the very first time in this volume. 978-3-7774-2813-0 May 2017 Weegee (1899–1968) was the first photographer to receive official permission in 1938 to listen in live to the New York police radio. From then onwards he sometimes even arrived at the trouble spot before the police and took countless photographs. From the hardened police officer to the Hep Cats in a Hurry. The run loud-mouthed crook; from the midnight boozer to the dancing jazz musician; from a dramatic on the best seats in the Roxy conflagration to the celebrations at the end of the Second World War: Weegee immortalised all these Theatre for the Jimmy Dorsey moments in unforgettable pictures. The volume also shows a hitherto unknown side of the famous Concert, 1943 Slug with caption by the photographer – happy people enjoying themselves. The works are complemented by the exciting photographer for the photo story of the rediscovery of the archive, which was missing for decades. on the left The critic, Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera, 1943 all works: © Weegee, International Center of Photography, courtesy: Daniel Blau Munich SCULPTURE 13 ENCHANTING MATERIALITY: SCULPTURES BY THE INTER- NATIONALLY RENOWNED SCULPTOR TONY CRAGG NEW WORKS, IN MOST CASES IN SHOW FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ARTIST’S FOSSIL AND MINERAL COLLECTION AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TONY CRAGG Ed. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt UNNATURAL SELECTION Essays by T. Cragg, Anthony Cragg (*1949) is one of the most important international sculptors of the K.-D. Pohl, J. Wood present day. The British artist, who lives in Wuppertal, was Rector of the Academy 120 pages of Art in Düsseldorf until 2013 and has won many awards. From the beginning his 80 illustrations 21 × 28 cm, hardcover creative work has found inspiration in Nature as a model. £ 28.00 Cragg’s large-format sculptures of metal, marble, wood and glass are derived from organic 978-3-7774-2707-2 January 2017 natural shapes and present a fascinating aesthetic.