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Menzel and Chodowiecki – “Unreigned” drawing
When he found himself obliged to the “Verein Berliner Künstler” due to a generosity bestowed upon him, Menzel decided to gladden his colleagues with a representative gift that was meant to recommend to them his own artistic program as a path to take. He painted the posthumous, life-sized portrait of the Berlin artist and miniaturist […]
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From Berlin to Danzig [Excerpts from: Daniel Chodowiecki’s Drawn Account of a Journey from Berlin to Gdansk in 1773]
Sorry, not translated yet. Der Abschied. Nach monatelangen Reisevorbereitungen verabschiedet sich der Künstler am Morgen des 3. Juni 1773 von seiner Familie im Hof seines Berliner Hauses in der Brüderstrasse. Der Aufenthalt in Pyritz. Am Morgen des zweiten Tags erreicht er Pyritz, wo das kränkelnde Pferd anfängt zu lahmen. Während es von einem Schmied beschlagen […]
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Robert Weaver II – Split-Level Books
In the 1980s, frustrated by the increasing restrictions in the field of magazine design, Weaver shifted the focus of his activities more and more to teaching at the New York Visual School of Arts and expanded a loose sequence of diary-like motif books he began with in the 1970s to form an independent complex of […]
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Robert Weaver – The other Pittsburgher
In his “Songs for Drella”, Lou Reed claimed that no Michelangelo could ever come from the hicktown of Pittsburgh. But this does not stand up to close examination. Robert Weaver is from Pittsburgh and in 1949, the same year the other Pittsburgher Andy Warhol, the subject of Reed’s cycle of songs, moved to the metropolis […]