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  • Caspar David Friedrich: A to Z

    by Barbara Hess, Torsten Köchlin, Caspar David Friedrich ...
    Series Book 5 - A to Z Series
    Caspar David Friedrich's works and Romantic paintingIn this highly recommended book, art historian and author Barbara Hess provides new perspectives on one of the most influential artists of German Romanticism - Caspar David Friedrich. Emotion, passion, individual experience and, above all, the tortured soul are the characteristics of this epoch. The famous German painter from Greifswald knew how ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Complete Paintings of Gustav Klimt (Delphi Classics)

    by Gustav Klimt, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 8 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, whose celebrated paintings and murals are widely regarded as modern masterpieces of twentieth century art. The Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Delphi Complete Works of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

    by Caspar David Friedrich, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 30 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Widely regarded as the leading figure of the German Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich produced vast and mysterious landscapes and seascapes that explored the theme of human helplessness against the forces of nature, establishing the idea of the Sublime as a central concern of Romanticism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bauhaus

    Design school modernism architecture 20th century

    by Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schöbe ...
    The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer, from 1928 to 1930, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, from 1930 to 1933. Founded ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expressionism

    Anguish, color, and the cry of modern humanity

    by Ashley Bassie ...
    Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hermann Hesse

    A Pictorial Biography

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    A Vivid Visual Journey Through the Life of Nobel Prize-Winning Author Hermann HesseHermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography offers a treasure trove of previously undiscovered photographic and textual material, shedding new light on the life and works of this exceptional German author. Over 200 photographs, discovered among Hesse's literary effects after his death, chronicle his family background, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Roads to Berlin

    Translated by Laura Watkinson ...
    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification.Nooteboom's writings on politics, people, architecture and culture are as digressive as they ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Art of the 20th century

    by Dorothea Eimert ...
    The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Undercurrents

    A Story of Berlin

    by Kirsty Bell ...
    Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Memory Factory

    The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900

    by Julie M. Johnson ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition

    by Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ‘what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.’ Yet in their awesome ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Solar Dance

    Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

    by Modris Eksteins ...
    Art dealer Otto Wacker’s 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD