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Familiar Images Read Differently

The Nature of Being is the sixth volume from the series of books about the Helsinki School. It concentrates on bringing together the various approaches used by the School's representatives to conceptualize nature visibly. The stated goal is not to limit oneself to purely physical depictions of animals, plants, and landscapes. Nature ought to be expressed through a di¿erent type of unit and with a new way of gauging time. Days, months, and seasons become the points of crystallization for time. Thus, the photographs reflect a Nordic sense about feelings of loneliness, jealousy, or desire. The works provide photographic insight into the complex horizon of emotions that characterize our individual views of nature. They do not portray landscape as such, but the world in which we live.Since the 1990s the name HELSINKI SCHOOL has been used to describe a group of fine art photographers who studied, taught, or graduated from the Aalto University's School of Art, Design and Architecture. The term unites a consistent conceptual approach.EXHIBITIONKunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, GermanyJanuary 26-April 26, 2020

Between 1561 and 1562 Georg Bocskay, secretary to Emperor Ferdinand I, assembled a large selection of contemporary and historical writings in the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, in an attempt to demonstrate his technical skill as a court scrivener. Around thirty years later, Ferdinand's grandson, Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Joris Hoefnagel, one of the last great European manuscript illuminators, to provide exclusive illuminations for the pages. Currently in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, this unique book-the only one worldwide-was first published in facsimile form in 1993, with extensive commentary by Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg. Now, at last, there is a newly produced facsimile edition in German. Besides biographies of these two exceptional artists, as well as an analytical observation of the role the manuscript played in the careers of both, Hoefnagel's illuminations are examined more closely. An indispensable volume for anyone interested in design, typography, manuscript illumination, and exquisite craftsmanship."The ultimate book-lover's gift book," raves The Los Angeles Times.

Ottilie W. Roederstein, born to German parents in Zurich in 1859, was one of the leading painters in the German-speaking world during her lifetime. She also enjoyed early recognition in Paris. As one of the few women artists of her time, she successfully dedicated her entire life to art and led an unconventional but respected existence in Germany together with her partner, the gynecologist Elisabeth H. Winterhalter. Although Roederstein's early work adhered to the conventions of the academy, the painter increasingly opened herself up to other currents in her more mature work and in the 1920s found her way to an austere, objective visual vocabulary. Despite her international reputation as a portraitist and painter of still lifes, Roederstein fell into obscurity almost immediately after her death in 1937. Now, after several decades, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main are presenting the first monographic show of her work, accompanied by this comprehensive catalogue. OTTILIE W. ROEDERSTEIN (1859-1937) had fought for her success: not only against the resistance of her parents, who did not want such a "dubious" activity for their daughter, but also against the numerous prejudices of that time. Like her friend Elisabeth H. Winterhalter, she fought for equal rights for women. She opened a teaching studio that was also for female students.

Gerhard Richter's catalogue raisonné lists more than 3,000 paintings and sculptures. Over the course of six decades, a stylistically diverse and complex oeuvre was created that attests to Richter's status as the most important living artist. The scholarly catalogue raisonné, comprising six volumes, offers extensive technical information on all works, details of the artist's handwritten notes as well as provenance, references to literature, and exhibition credits, in addition to a large number of full-page color illustrations of the works. Comments, quotations, and comparative illustrations of individual catalogue numbers supplement the information on the works. The present volume provides access to Richter's extensive oeuvre from the Cologne Cathedral window in 2007 to his last sculptures in 2019. Subscription price for complete set: EUR198.00 per volume. You will be invoiced with each delivery. GERHARD RICHTER (*1932) is one of the most influential contemporary artists. Richter studied from 1961 to 1964 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he later taught as a professor. Richter lives and works in Cologne.DIETMAR ELGER (*1958) studied at the University of Hamburg and has been director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006.

Grid and free-hand painting

In her work Sonia Leimer calls into question the conditions and future of our existential spaces. This theme is particularly topical in 2020, a year in which the entire world has had to reconsider its domestic spaces, adapt the habits of its living spaces, and acknowledge the fragility of global spaces.

Visualisation of thought process

What public institutions are capable of

A journey into the mystical Berlin night

Stimulating art from a stimulating physical zone

A time of new beginnings

"Europe's rebirth must be the goal." - Peter Weibel