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Buffet is back (Biography and Retrospective)
Only a few month after the publication of Nicolas Foulkes´comprehensive and well researched study Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist a retrospective exhibition of this most hated and best forgotten popular artist of the 20th century opens in the French capital, this former lion´s den of canonisation and condemnation. Alongside his favourite subjects […]
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Between Painting and Illustration or: Comparing Cathedrals with Beer Mats?
Preliminary Note: This is a kind of virtual essay on „Painting and Illustration” from the perspective of my studio and my teaching. Thus I hope you will understand that next to assured facts, this essay will be influenced by personal bias and opinion. Antoine Watteau, Billboard of the Art Dealer Gersaint, 1720 / 21 (Source) […]
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Travelling through Hotel Turgot by cuts. The Art of Wendelien Schönfeld
One rainy afternoon at a friend’s house in Amsterdam I saw a book with a series of colour woodcuts. In the woodcuts the rooms, garden and façades of a former private hôtel in Paris were depicted. In the first print I saw the front door, in the second I entered the building. I saw a […]
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Hubert Herkomer, 1849 – 1914. Exhibitions in Landsberg and Bushey
The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hubert Herkomer, which runs at present in the City Museum Landsberg in Germany and which subsequently will be at display in Bushey near London, should actually be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at the Pinakothek in Munich and at the Tate Britain. […]
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Escapes. William Hogarth and the consequences
Not translated: Fünfundsiebzig Jahre nach seinem Tod tauchte William Hogarth als Akteur in dem Dokumentarroman Jack Sheppard von William Harrison Ainsworth auf, der ab Januar 1839 als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in dem vom jungen Charles Dickens herausgegebenen Literaturmagazin Bentley´s Miscellany abgedruckt wurde. Auch in The Portrait , einer der Illustrationen des Romans, die von George Cruikshank besorgt […]
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The rehabilitation. Gustave Doré in Paris, Strasbourg and in Ottawa.
The profession of illustration and the disrepute it got into are both a product of 19th century industrialized journalism. The business´ high altitude flight as well as it´s crash are manifest in the work of one single person, the Alsatian graphic artist, painter and sculptor Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Along with Gustave Courbet he was the […]
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“Esprit Montmartre” – The perpetuation of the cliché
Not translated: Zur Ausstellung “Esprit Montmartre. Die Bohème in Paris um 1900” in der Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Das geballte Medienecho zur Ausstellung in der Schirn Kunsthalle klingt verheißungsvoll. Die Pariser Bohemekultur um die Jahrhundertwende erscheine hier in einem völlig neuen Licht, nicht länger in der realitätsfernen Weichzeichnung touristischer Projektion, vielmehr zeige sich der Montmartre hier, […]
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The New Flesh (MePri-Exhibition)
The exhibition “The New Flesh” was compiled by Clemens Krümmel and took place from September 13 till October 18 in the exhibition space “after the butcher” (Spittastraße. 25, 10317 Berlin). It was planned long beforehand – based not only on an affinity to the work of one of the space’s organizers, Thomas Kilpper, an artist […]
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“Vogelmen Diaries” – Exhibition film and related archive articles (Melton Prior Institute im Heidelberger Kunstverein, 17.11.2012 – 27.1.2013)
Exhibition Film. Click on the image to play. . Fletcher DuBois performs the “Vogelmen Diaries” at the opening. Main Hall, Southern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Our System of Feathering Nests ..” Main Hall, Northern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Let Us Prey!” > Faits Divers – Illustrations: Crashes and Collapses > Thomas Nast: “Dead Men´s Clothes Soon Wear […]
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Thomas Nast & Theodor Kaufmann: Higher Forms of Hieroglyph
I Thomas Nast The pictorial journalism of Thomas Nast marked the peak of graphic art as far as its influence and popularity in the 19th century is concerned. No artist was ever more successful in regard to the intensity, scope and lastingness of his political impact than this North American draughtsman – not Dürer, not […]