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  Hatje Cantz Beckmann & America Max Beckmann (1884–1950) moved to the United States in the late summer of 1947, and spent the last three years of his life there. Impressively, Beckmann made the utmost use of this radical relocation and brought about significant transformations in his painting--producing, among other works, his triptych masterpiece, The Argonauts”--while also teaching in St. Louis, Missouri, and at the Brooklyn Museum, where he also mounted a retrospective of prints and drawings. The vastness of the American continent, with its unending landscapes and roads and its vast cities embodying energetic modernist optimism, propelled Beckmann into an extraordinary fervor of productivity. This volume looks at these decisive final years, which produced so many key works for the Expressionist master. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Jutta Schütt. Text by David Anfam, Karoline Feulner, Ursula Harter, Lynette Roth, Stefana Sabin, Jutta Schütt, Christiane Zeiller. Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 261 color. Publication Date: 1/31/2012 List Price: US $70.00

  Hatje Cantz Max Beckmann: The Landscapes The landscape paintings of Max Beckmann (1884-1950) are increasingly understood as fundamental to his achievement, equivalent in stature to his portraits but operating as the ground for a very different side of Beckmann's sensibility. His depictions of urban landscapes, lakeside scenes and country lanes are without the implication of allegory found in his portraiture; while they do often serve as records of places visited, they also frequently cite works from art history, and occasionally insert the artist into their narratives via personal effects positioned in the foreground, subtly orienting the scene around a human presence. Some of Beckmann's most haunting paintings fall within this genre, such as his Moon Landscape” of 1925, in which elongated tubular rolls of cloud overhang the city nocturne, embellishing its mood with abstract unease. With more than 100 color plates, this volume shows Beckmann to have been among modernism's foremost exponents of landscape painting. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Nina Peter. Text by Hans Belting, Eva Demski. Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 115 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $75.00

  Hatje Cantz Max Beckmann: The Sketchbooks Famed for his self portraits, which rival Rembrandt and Picasso for intensity of conception and scrutiny, Max Beckmann (1884-1950) towers over German painting of the first half of the twentieth century, providing German modernism with one of its most personal visions and also inspiring a subsequent generation of American painters (Philip Guston, Nathan Oliveira). Now, Hatje Cantz presents this luxurious catalogue raisonné of Beckmann's 54 sketchbooks--the first time they have been published in their entirety. Beckmann used these sketchbooks throughout his active career, which spans the period between 1899 and his death in 1950. Their more than 1,300 pages (plus nearly 100 single sheets that have now been assigned to their original sketchbooks) are all reproduced here and annotated with texts elucidating themes and composition methods. This catalogue raisonné provides revelatory information and insight into Beckmann's process as a painter. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Christiane Zeiller, Gerd Presler. Slip Clth, 10 x 12.25 in. / 976 pg / 191 color / 15 b&w / 1,260 duotone. Publication Date: 11/30/2011 List Price: US $375.00

  Neue Galerie New York Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn In August of 2008, The New York Times' Ken Johnson wrote, "Max Beckmann's 'Self-Portrait with Horn' is one of the finest treasures of the Neue Galerie... Painted in brusque, brushy strokes in high-contrast darks and lights, it depicts the artist in a black-and-orange striped dressing gown holding up a silver hunter's horn in one sausage-fingered hand. He looks sideways with an intent expression as though he had sounded a note and was awaiting an answering response. Or he may be listening for the hounds of war." Beckmann painted "Self-Portrait with Horn" in 1938, just after he and his wife fled Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Amsterdam, and it evokes the tribulations of an entire generation. This volume celebrates this painting and the special place it holds for the Neue Galerie. Art historian Jill Lloyd brings her superb scholarship to bear in tracing the work's history and its importance within the . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Jill Lloyd. Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 84 pgs / 44 color / 39 b&w. Publication Date: 2/1/2009 List Price: US $30.00

  Hatje Cantz Otto Dix: Art to Read The Art of Life Few painters are as strongly linked to the historical events and political catastrophes of twentieth-century Germany as Otto Dix (1891–1969). Born to a working-class family at the turn of the twentieth century, he hurled himself into the art world of the prewar era, and fought and drew on the front during World War I; after 1918, he gave that war perhaps the most honest face bestowed on it by an artist. During the Weimar Republic, Dix emerged as an enfant terrible, a dandy and an urban sophisticate, but he was also a respected professor and pedagogue, until he was driven from his position by the Nazis a few months after they came to power. Ostracized and threatened under the Nazi regime, Dix retreated to Lake Constance, where he began painting in the broader brushstokes that characterize his final phase. Published in Hatje Cantz's new Art to Read series, Philipp Gutbrod's expertly . . . . [see book details]

  By Philipp Gutbrod. Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 27 color / 6 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  Hatje Cantz Publishers Otto Dix: Hommage à Martha Between 1921 and 1933, while painter Otto Dix was in his 30s and early 40s--in the years following the Great War, in which he had fought for Germany at the Somme, and which had driven him to make some of the most controversial, violent art of his generation--Dix put much of his artistic energy into portraits of his lover and later wife, Martha. The paintings, watercolors, drawings and humorous sketches brought together here show Martha Dix advancing through roles as a sophisticated, emancipated woman; as lover, muse, and intellectual companion; and then as mother and heart of the family. The painter's widely varying attitudes toward his most frequent model, which range from admiration and intimacy to increasing distance, transpose themselves into a myriad of styles. The titles of the works, which range from emotionally charged imagery to matter-of-fact description, underscore this shift. Martha Dix's portraits, organized here by the Otto Dix . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Karin Schick. Clothbound, 7.5 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 68 color / 23 b&w. Publication Date: 2/1/2006 List Price: US $35.00

  Exact Change Blue Octavo Notebooks From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks--which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings--because, he wrote, notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception.” The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding.” --Library Journal. . . . . [see book details]

  By Franz Kafka. Edited by Max Brod. Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 120 pgs. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $13.95

  Hatje Cantz Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted city life as a joyous, bustling pageant, a sophisticated swirl of desiring bodies and colorful urbanity, giving Germany an energetic iconography for the glory days of modernity. One of the four founders of Die Brücke (The Bridge), Kirchner drew on German Renaissance art to conjure expressive exaggerations of face and posture, and brought to landscape painting a city-dweller's zest, imbuing tranquil scenery with riotous energy. Coinciding with a Kirchner retrospective at the Städel Museum--the first to be seen in Germany in 30 years--this massive volume surveys the artist's several creative phases and genres. It features the famous nudes made during the Die Brücke era, his classic scenes of frenetic Berlin city life and Swiss mountainscapes from Davos, along with lesser-known canvases, works on paper and sculpture. With essays by renowned art historians, this definitive monograph offers fresh perspective on the continued relevance of Kirchner. Born in Bavaria, Ernst . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Felix Krämer. Text by Javier Arnaldo, Max Hollein, Sandra Oppmann, et al. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / 380 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2010 List Price: US $75.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Kirchner and the Berlin Street Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's remarkable series of paintings known as the Berlin Street Scenes is a highpoint of the artist's work and a milestone of German Expressionism. Kirchner moved from Dresden to Berlin in 1911, and it was there, immersed in the vitality of a teeming city and under the looming shadow of imminent world war, that he created the Street Scenes in a burst of creative energy and ambition. Berlin was at this time undergoing rapid growth, and as Kirchner absorbed the crowds and energy of city life, his work responded with acute perspective, jagged brushstrokes and searing color. As the most extensive consideration of these paintings in English, this richly illustrated volume examines the creative process undertaken by the artist as he explored his themes through various media and presents a major body of related work including drawings, pen-and-ink studies, pastels, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs. It also investigates the significance . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Deborah Wye. Hardback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 138 pgs / 133 color / 7 b&w. Publication Date: 8/1/2008 List Price: US $35.00

  DuMont Buchverlag Nolde in Berlin: Dance Theatre Cabaret Emil Nolde kept close ties to Berlin: from 1905 on, he usually spent the winter months in the capital. The painter had his own live-in studio first on Tauentzienstrasse and then later on Bayernallee, in a building that was later destroyed, in a bombing raid in 1944. In the late 1920s, Nolde even asked van der Rohe build a house for him in Dahlem. This plan was never realized, but in many of his paintings, Berlin's character plays an important role. In gathering works by Nolde around a particular theme, this large monograph revives a DuMont tradition. Nolde's vivid pictorial creations are accompanied by numerous documents relating to his various stays in Berlin and the importance of the Deutsches Theater” and Expressionist dance for his art. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Manfred Reuther. Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 84 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $44.95

  DuMont Buchverlag Emil Nolde: My Garden Full of Flowers This new title in DuMont's themed Emil Nolde series, which includes Wanderlust and Unpainted Pictures, is devoted to the painter's garden and flower pictures. Wherever he settled, Nolde always planted a flower garden. Sitting in front of his floral arrangements, this great colorist produced numerous watercolors and oils (though the latter were done indoors, in his studio). Nolde's garden at Seeb¸ll is a particular focus of this volume, and one of the artist's most marvelous creations, designed as it is around motifs using the the initials A and E (for his wife Ada and his own name). A sumptuous compilation, My Garden Full of Flowers records an enduring love affair and one of art's finest virtuosos of color at the peak of his achievement. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Manfred Reuther. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 140 pgs / 70 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $44.95

  DuMont Buchverlag Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures In 1941, the president of the Reichs Chamber of the Visual Arts in Berlin prohibited the painter Emil Nolde from all professional activities in the field of the visual arts.” I was in the midst of beautiful, productive painting when this ban on painting and selling arrived,” Nolde recalled later. The brush fell out of my hand.” Nolde continued to paint during the eight years of his ostracism from his home in Seebüll. He called the more than 1,300 small-format watercolors and gouaches that he produced unpainted pictures,” and wrote that The small works on paper provided me with great pleasure personally and as a painter.” This book illustrates over 100 of these works—more than 50 of them for the first time—as well as selected oil paintings. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Jörg Garbrecht, Manfred Reuther. Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 152 pgs / 107 color / 10 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $44.95

  DuMont Buchverlag Emil Nolde: Wanderlust Travels through Germany, Spain and Switzerland Published in association with the Nolde Foundation, this is the sixth volume in DuMont's series devoted to painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956). As a member of Die Brücke (The Bridge), Nolde was known for his vigorous brushwork, rhythmic compositions and extraordinary use of color. A farmer's son from the German-Danish frontier, Nolde traveled widely throughout Europe: Switzerland, Denmark, France, Italy, Sweden, England, Austria, Belgium, Holland and Spain. While the artist is usually associated with paintings and watercolors of his native gardens in Germany, this latest edition focuses on his European travels and how he translated his wanderlust onto canvas. Guided by imagination, Nolde created an integrated vision of the world that celebrated a love of nature and all that was around him. Featuring mountain panoramas and studies of the people he encountered, Emil Nolde: Wanderlust gives new perspectives on this leading figure in German Expressionism. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Andreas Fluck. Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 122 color / 9 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2010 List Price: US $44.95

  DuMont Buchverlag Emil Nolde Paints Women Admired, Feared, and Desired Emil Nolde's art was largely anchored in the familiar genres of landscape, cityscape and portrait, but his ability to infuse these genres with forceful emotion places him among the greatest artists of the past century. A recurrent theme for Nolde was the portrayal of women, cast in roles to which the artist brought his troubled projections: woman as mother, muse, model, music hall girl; angelic and demonic women, saints, sinners and seductresses; and attendant obsessions with maternal bonds, fecundity, sexuality and myth. Each of these roles played out urgent fears and longings in Nolde's psyche, affording him a lifelong subject matter and source of fascination. "My pictures came about by immersing myself in women's innermost beings," Nolde recorded. Here, color reproductions of 50 of Nolde's paintings are examined alongside precedents and comparable works by artists from Giorgione and Klimt to Munch and Warhol. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Manfred Reuther. Text by Joerg Garbrecht. Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 97 color / 7 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Hatje Cantz Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism 1905-1913 Anyone who directly and genuinely renders what drives him to create is one of us,” proclaimed the manifesto of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a close-knit group of artists who first met in Dresden in 1905. Its founding members were four Jugendstil architecture students: Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Eschewing the contemporary academic styles and subjects, these four artists instead looked to their German art heritage to make "a bridge" with the past, favoring such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder. They also drew on Fauvist and Primitivist art in their quest for unhindered expression and, with this combination of resources, propelled German art into the twentieth century. In works by Die Brücke, color diverged from nature and became a record of emotion; forms were radically simplified, or exaggerated and distorted; bohemian subject matter argued for a Socialist politics. Their nudes, landscapes . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Reinhold Heller. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 232 pgs / 90 color. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $55.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse The artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of the genre. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the movement also revolutionized etching and lithography, to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This graphic impulse can be traced from the formation of the artist group Die Brücke in 1905 through the war years of the 1910s and into the early 1930s, when individual artists continued to produce compelling work even as the movement was winding down. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, showcases the Museum's outstanding holdings of Expressionist prints, enhanced by a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection. Featuring approximately 260 works by some 30 artists, the book presents a diverse array of . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Starr Figura. Text by Starr Figura, Peter Jelavich, Heather Hess, Iris Schmeisser. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 295 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $60.00

  Hatje Cantz The Total Artwork in Expressionism Art, Film, Literature, Theater, Dance, and Architecture 1905-1925 First theorized by composer Richard Wagner, the total artwork, or "gesamtkunstwerk," proposed a synthesis of all arts towards a single, unified spectacle. Wagner's ambitious conception flowered in the early twentieth century throughout numerous avant gardes, particularly in German Expressionism, where art forms cross-pollinated and collaborated to a remarkable degree. Past considerations of Expressionism have tended to focus only on individual genres, making The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art, Film, Literature, Theater, Dance and Architecture 1905-1925 the first-ever publication to examine the interplay between these forms. Here, masterpieces of Expressionist film such as Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are united with set designs; the works of painters and set designers such as Ernst Barlach, Otto Bartning, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and Ludwig Meidner are examined, alongside film stills by César Klein and Hans Poelzig; and documents by Bruno Taut and Ernst Toller, music . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Claudia Dillmann, Ralf Beil. Text by Wolfgang Pehnt, Thomas Anz, Gottfried Benn. Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 512 pgs / 467 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $85.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Weimar Cinema 1919-1933 Daydreams and Nightmares Published in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art's presentation of 75 feature-length films from the Weimar era, many only recently restored, Weimar Cinema reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential films made in Germany between the World Wars. German and American films competed on the world market, and the stylistic accomplishments of the many German film artists who emigrated to Hollywood before Hitler took power deeply affected American cinema. Weimar Cinema is the first comprehensive survey of this period to include popular films--musicals, comedies, the "daydreams" of the working class--along with the nightmarish classics such as Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse der Spieler and M; F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens; and G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box. Richly illustrated with film stills, the book examines how and why our understanding of these films has changed in the last half century, and investigates important themes in films from this period, including the portrayal . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Ulrich Döge, Thomas Elsaesser, Laurence Kardish, Claudia Lenssen, Eric Rentschler, Werner Sudendorff. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 150 duotone. Publication Date: 12/31/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  Kerber Katsura Funakoshi & Ernst Barlach: A Map Of The Time In a dialogue across time and continents, the figurative works of contemporary Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi (born 1951) and Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), one of the masters of German Expressionism, meet in this book. Both artists use wood as their medium, Barlach showing in oak and walnut and Funakoshi carving from soft camphor wood and implanting marble eyes. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ernst Barlach Haus and Annely Juda Fine. Essays by Katja Blomberg, Sebastian Giesen and Karin Schick. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 96 pgs / 58 color / 4 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2005 List Price: US $35.00