Ulrich Bischoff Livres

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive. The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism.

Biographical sketch of Norwegian-born artist Evard Munch, including color illustrations of his famous works.

Discover the magical and unconventional world of the iconic master and pioneer in Dada and Surrealist movements, Max Ernst. His captivating work stands out for its varied style and technique and illustrates not only his brilliant and extraordinary ideas but also pushes against the constraints of the rational mind.

"In a superb selection of over a hundred and fifty masterpieces, ranging from Neoclassicism and Romanticism to Realism, academic experts from three great institutions impressively show how the thread of Europe was woven into German art. They outline the wide variety of themes painters picked up from the European literature and political or intellectual debate of the time, the aspects and events they recorded as observers and chroniclers, and how the painters criss-crossed Europe in every direction - from the Nordic countries to Spain, and from Greece to Russia - absorbing artistic influences and making their own contribution abroad at the same time. German nineteenth-century art was European in the best sense. Over three hundred and eighty coloured illustrations in this volume illustrate the masterpieces of this multi-faceted period."--Jacket

Jeff Transit accompanies an exhibition of 26 unique works of this Canadian artist. Jeff Wall made a name for himself with a special light boxes with huge color transparencies of carefully calculated photographic images oscillating between painterly compositions and straight photography. His conceptual work brought him a special position in the art world and his images that also serve as lit objects made him famous during the last three decades. The book accompanies an exhibition at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. It includes texts by art historians Ulrich Bischoff, Mathias Wagner, Thomas Weski, and Laszlo Glozer.

Peter Krauskopf, born in Leipzig in 1966, studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst and was a master student of Arno Rink. Initially focused on classical landscape painting, his work now explores the boundary between representational and abstract art, capturing moments in nature rather than specific places. Light plays a crucial role in his evocative paintings.