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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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CS: Neurological Research Laboratories: Monkey Experiments Bremen , University of Bremen; September 2003
The dispute over animal experiments between the Bremen Senate and the university is escalating. Because they are “ethically not justified”, the Bremen Senate intends to definitively ban brain researcher Andreas Kreiter from his controversial monkey experiments at Bremen University; the university, on the other hand, insists on the freedom of research and wants to take […]
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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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Local Court Hamburg Centre / Archive , 12 pencil drawings
A so-called job opportunity with extra compensation is what Hamburg draughtsman Henrik Hold owes his intimate insights into the Kafkaesque underground world of the local magistrate’s court. All the drawings were made on site in spring 2007. (Textem Verlag, Hamburg has published a book reproducing this series of drawings in duotone).
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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 […]
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„Conference Room, Peack House, Kaesong – Aug.15, ’51” by Herbert C. Hahn
This drawing, highlight of a series of a total of eight by American war artist Herbert C. Hahn, is certainly a haunting graphic document of the armistice talks during the Korean War that started at Kaesong on July 10, 1951 and lasted until August 22, 1951. Initially, both sides – the North Korean and Chinese […]
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Sketches from the Department of Anatomy , October 1989 – January 1990
Some examples from a drawing cycle, made on location in a dissecting course of the Anatomy Department of Düsseldorf University at the end of 1989. “Except for a few sheets in DinA3 format, all sketches are drawn using 2B, 6B TK pens on DinA4 letter paper. With my drawing board hanging around me, I could […]