Bøger af Rainer Metzger

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, the Bauhaus total work of art, drag balls, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich. From cutting-edge kino to crowded jazz bars, come and roam the daring, freewheeling spirit of 1920s Berlin with this vivid cultural portrait of the age through painting, design, fashion, film, and more.

Meet Vincent van Gogh, the tortured genius of 19th-century art. This lush tome collects all his 871 paintings, alongside writings and essays, charting the life and work which continues to tower over art to this day. From Sunflowers, The Starry Night, to Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear: celebrate an artist uniquely dexterous in the...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: "To every age its art -- to every art its freedom;" and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century. Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a "laboratory of modernity," one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators--from Egon Schiele's unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt's decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser's calendars adorned in golden deities. Discover the zeitgeist, the scandals, and the extraordinary protagonists in this introduction to a transformative epoch. Across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, we explore all the movers and shakers through insightful profiles and crisp double-page reproductions. Marking the centenary of the deaths of some of its brightest talents, this collection joins Vienna in its 2018 celebration of Modernism.

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction.Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction.Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

C'est la décennie de l'audace, des toiles expressionnistes, des oeuvres d'art totales du Bauhaus, et des bals de travestis ; de Metropolis et de Marlene Dietrich. Des salles de cinéma combles aux bars jazz bondés, venez découvrir l'esprit libre et courageux des années 1920 à Berlin grâce à cette évocation culturelle vivante de la période, à...

Marc Chagalls (1887-1985) Malerei ist ein komplexer Bildteppich, in dem religiöse Symbole, Motive aus der Folklore des heimatlichen Vitebsk, aus der Welt des Zirkus und der jüdischen Tradition zu heiter-melancholischen Traumbildern verwoben sind. Traumbilder, die sich eines Repertoires immer wiederkehrender Motive bedienen: Musikanten, Hähne, Dächer, Blumen, Fische, Ziegen, siebenarmige Leuchter, Thorarollen und schwebende Liebespaare gehören dazu, wie in einem Kaleidoskop immer wieder neu arrangiert und mit lockerem Pinselstrich und kräftigen Farben auf die Leinwand gebracht.Sein unverkennbarer, so heiter-schwerelos anmutender Stil hat ihn zu einem der populärsten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts gemacht. Bei all ihrem ätherischen Reiz sind seine Kompositionen dennoch reich und vielschichtig in ihren Anspielungen. Sie verweben nicht nur Farben und Formen miteinander, sondern auch seine jüdischen Wurzeln mit seinen späteren Erlebnissen in Paris, religiöse Symbolik mit erotischen Gesten, Symbole der Hoffnung mit Zeugnissen der Gewalt.Diese Einführung macht nicht nur mit einem oft verkannten Werk vertraut, sie zeichnet auch eine wechselvolle Lebensgeschichte nach, in die sich alle großen Dramen des letzten Jahrhunderts eingeschrieben haben.