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Social Credit & Direct Democracy – William James Linton: “The English Republic”. London / Brantwood, 1850-55
Lintoniana I “We are Utopians, theorists, dreamers, enthusiasts, fanatics, madmen, in a word, we are republicans.” W.J. Linton, 1850 In December 1850, almost two years after the revolutionary hopes of a democratic change had been buried Europe-wide under a mantle of resignation and depression, radical artisan William James Linton began to proclaim his forceful vision […]
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Theodor Rocholl – The Broken Historical Painter
It was just always this swaying between a depressed mood and exaggerated self-confidence. This was always caused by the many years of dropping out of society. Something was bent inside me at the time and it never straightened up again. A certain dread of making new acquaintances always impeded me in an extraordinary way and […]
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We are in a Post-Photoshop Moment. In conversation with Suzanne Treister on her War Artists series.
“War artists” was shown in Autumn 2008 at Annely Juda Gallery in London – together with two other drawing projects, one on Hermetic diagrams (“Alchemy”), and another on official letterheads (“Correspondence: From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe”). In the accompanying catalogue, Richard Grayson writes: “War Artists’ shows us twelve people using means of representation that were once […]
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BREMERHAVEN – NEW YORK (MELTON PRIOR EDITION )
Now available: Our first edition of artists’ prints published by Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing, Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Kunstverein Bremerhaven e.V. Luis Camnitzer, New York Bogdan Hoffmann, Bremen Birgit Jensen, Düsseldorf Ben Katchor, New York Stephan Mörsch, Berlin Alexander Roob, Düsseldorf Dierk Schmidt, Berlin Paul Schwer, Düsseldorf Andreas Siekmann, Berlin Susan Turcot, Toronto […]
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Bilder aus Syrien
Not translated: Die Schilderungen kontinentaleuropäischer Stadtlandschaften und Alltagssituationen des niederländischen Künstlers und Archäologen Theo de Feyter haben wir bereits in einem zurückliegenden Beitrag vorgestellt. In seiner aktuellen Ausstellung in der Amsterdamer Galerie De Rietlanden Exposities, die noch bis zum 18. Januar 2009 zu sehen ist, zeigt de Feyter nun Arbeiten, die in den letzten Jahren […]
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The pictorial diary of Christiaan Andriessen (1805 – 1808) (Exhibition / Ausstellung)
The Amsterdam City Archive shows an extensive selection of the drawn diary of the Amsterdam artist Christiaan Andriessen (1775-1846). He drew in his diary nearly every day until 1 janury 1807, after which he made one drawing a week. You can follow the artists family life as well as his professional accompishments with his use […]
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Bernard Buffet – Terrain Vague – Dangerous terrain
“Bernard Buffet, 34, painter of the “misérables”, owner of a Rolls-Royce, whose figures with their elongated proportions are no longer being rewarded by French art dealers in line with the bestseller lists, has painted a 20 sq. m. cinema poster for the ballad of the wide boys, “Terrain Vague”, by that old master among directors, […]
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David Friedmann , Press artist and painter (1893-1980)
The painter and graphic artist David Friedmann lived in Berlin from 1911 and was a student of Herrmann Struck (etching) and Lovis Corinth (painting). Until the Nazis came to power in 1933, Friedmann was a successful artist producing late impressionist landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. In 1938, he fled with his young family to Prague only […]
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Drawing in the Tube. In conversation with Thomas Zacharias [Drawing in the Tube Horst Moser in a Conversation with Thomas Zacharias.] (Horst Moser)
A Summary of the Interview Thomas Zacharias, born in 1930, taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich from 1966 on. After receiving the emeritus status, the artist, book author, illustrator, art historian, and photographer created a comprehensive oeuvre in sketchbooks. At times, Zacharias lived in London, where he created these drawings. Thomas […]
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Van Goghs Favorites IV: Paul Renouard, the Zola of Drawing
“There is life in every little pencil stroke.” Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Nuenen, 4 or 5 May 1885 “When I think how he rose to such a height by working from the very beginning from nature, without imitating others, and how he is none the less in harmony with the […]