Friedrich Achleitner wrote on architect Adolf Krischanitz (*1946) that the secret of his efficacy in the architectural discourse probably lies in 'his double strategy, ...
With its technical innovations in lighting and ecologically sound climate control, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton's new building for the Udo and Anette Brandhorst ...
A reevaluation of Kurt Schwitters´s work in Norway as an important contribution to modern art. In the thirties, anyone traveling to Djupvasshytta, not far ...
The Dada caricaturist, draughtsman and painter George Grosz (1893-1959) spent more than half of his creative career--27 years--living and working in the United States. ...
This lavishly illustrated documentation of the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica features descriptions of the prizewinning works, texts by the artists, and the statements of ...
HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a new building designed by the renowned American architect Steven Holl. He showed a ...
Fifteen years ago Johannes Modersohn and Antje Freiesleben started up an architectural office together in Berlin. Their first work, the spacious platform hall at ...
As co-founder of the Secession, theWienerWerkstätte, and the ÖsterreichischerWerkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) had a decisive influence onmodern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948 Hoffmann ...
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) came from a family of famous artists. His father, Giovanni Giacometti, was one of the leading Swiss Post-Impressionists and perhaps Albertos ...
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was the son of the Swiss painter Giovanni Giacometti. Born and raised in Val Bregaglia, after 1922 he lived primarily inParis ...
The structures realized by the sculptor Erwin Heerich during his lifetime are works of art whose regularity and form are linked to age-old concepts ...
Since the reunification ofGermany, the federal government has erected scores of groundbreaking buildings for legislative bodies, technology and science, or defense, as well as ...
William N. Copley (1919-1996) had his own gallery, in which he presented such prominent representatives of Surrealism as René Magritte, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, ...
Number Two: Fragile documents the second exhibition of works from the Julia Stoschek Collection, whose theme was corporeality in videos, installations and photography. Artists ...
The Brücke group was founded in 1905 by four students in Dresden: Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. The name ...
