This monograph accompanies the first major retrospective of Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth (born 1940), presenting pieces from the past five decades. Jungwirth's approach to painting, falling somewhere between American Abstract Expressionism and European Arte Informele, explores the fundamental principles of painting.

Martha Jungwirth: Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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Helene Schjerfbeck

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is one of the most important Finnish artists of the first half of the twentieth century. While her painterly oeuvre has attracted a great deal of attention in Scandinavia, she is largely unknown abroad. This comprehensive monograph introduces the life and work of the painter, with over 80 impressive works from all of her creative phases. The publication shows how, despite her physical isolation, the artist kept up with the art of her contemporaries through illustrations from art and fashion magazines. Here, both the famous self-portraits and the picture series The Convalescent, The Seamstress and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin play a crucial role, as do as numerous portraits of women and the less well-known male nudes and history paintings.

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail

Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria

Konttinen, Riitta

Lahelma, Marja

History & Criticism

This substantial and long-needed volume surveys the five-decade career of the popular German Minimalist painter and sculptor Imi Knoebel (born 1940). It features material from Knoebel's archive and reproductions of key works by the artist, from his early Line Pictures to his recent work. A pioneering and much-loved figure of 1960s abstraction, Knoebel continues to find fresh ways to experiment with form and color. Also included in this volume are essays by curator David Moos, art historian Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm and Knoebel's contemporaries Johannes Stüttgen and Max Wechsler. An in-depth descriptive catalogue of works further affirms this volume as an essential standard reference. It is published to accompany Knoebel's career retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Imi Knoebel: Works 1966–2014

This collection of alphabets features the work of artists, designers, musicians and curators. Participating artists include John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Peter Fend, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Julia Jung, Jonathan Monk, Laura Prouvost, Tobias Rehberger, Mark Titchner, Matthias Ulrich, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Welz, Laura Wood and others.

The Book of ABCs: A Collection of Alphabets

This monograph features representative works from the last ten years of Düsseldorf-based artist Frank Bauer (born 1964), a former student of Gerhard Richter. Bauer is known for translating his own photographs into paintings, oscillating between landscape, still life and portraiture.

Frank Bauer: Paintings 2005–2014

This catalogue presents Chinese painter Rao Fu (born 1978), who combines Western art traditions with classical paper, brush and ink techniques of Chinese painting. Fu uses bitumen paint, most commonly used to protect metal materials against water, to create his sepia-toned landscapes.

Rao Fu: Follow Wind

A 1962 newspaper photograph of a plane crash inspired Andy Warhol (1928–87) to produce a series dealing with catastrophes and horrific accidents. In his grainy silkscreens―some brightly colored, others in black and silver―both the content and form refer to the reportage aesthetics, general appetite for sensation and the confusion of images that dominate modern society, using this as a background against which to explore transience and mortality. In a 1963 interview about the Death and Disaster series, Warhol mentioned the photograph of the plane crash but also referenced his pictures of Marilyn Monroe: "I realized that everything I was doing must have been Death." This catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, goes beyond the Death and Disaster series, and includes Warhol's pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy, skulls, race riots and electric chairs in a survey of this critical theme in Warhol's oeuvre.

Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster

Egyptian multimedia artist Wael Shawky (born 1971) made a stir at Documenta 13 in 2012 with his elaborately produced epic marionette film trilogy Cabaret Crusades, which blends fiction and fact in an entirely unique coverage of the medieval crusades. Basing his work on extensive research and accounts from primary sources, the artist complicates the traditional clash of civilization narrative by depicting scenes that refute common notions of the era. Reenacting the events of the 11th and 12th centuries in a manner both childlike and chilling, Shawky's handmade puppets highlight the secular motivations of the European fighters and the competition and violence among Arab leaders. This catalogue, published to accompany Shawky's exhibition at the K20, extensively documents the creative process behind the acclaimed film trilogy, exploring the ways in which Shawky's work--dramatic, cynical and surreal--employs a historical lens to probe and problematize contemporary culture.

Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades

Presenting mainly the artist's most recent works, White Gold sheds light on the multilayered work of German artist Sabine Wewer (born 1960). Wewer creates figurative paintings that combine mystical motifs from literature, film and music, and that draw upon Surrealism and abstract art.

Sabine Wewer: White Gold

Norbert Feger portrays influential and inspiring personalities in drawings and paintings, from Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel to Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Miriam Makeba. Quotes accompany each portrait.

Norbert Feger: Faces of Time: Humanity Is Not Negotiable

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