Art for All: The Color Woodcut in Vienna around 1900
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836539217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-11 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
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From October 2001 to May 2016 he was director of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, and as of January 2006 also of the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus with its sculpture collection. Guggenheim Museum in New York. From 1996 to 2000 Schröder was a board member and commercial director of the newly-founded private Leopold Foundation, and in 1999 he was appointed designated managing director of the Albertina in Vie
Max Hollein is a member of international supervisory and advisory committees, curator of numerous exhibitions, and editor of more than one hundred exhibition catalogues. He has been director of the Fine Art Museum in San Francisco since June 2016.Klaus Albrecht Schröder studied art history and history at Vienna University. Parallel to that he was a guest curator, for example, at the Tate Liverpool, the Neue Galerie New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Schirn in Frankfurt am Main and repeatedly for the Jewish Museum in Vienna. In 2014 he founded the Natter Fine Arts, which specializes in assessing works of art and developing exhibition conce
The gesture, though short-lived, and long overlooked by established art histories, may be seen as a decisive social, as well as aesthetic, moment. Examining their stark contours, stylization of the surface per se, and tendency towards contained color areas we evaluate the Viennese woodblocks as essential harbingers, and benchmarks, of the 20th century modernism to come. Through prints, publications, calendars and pages from Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, it gathers works remarkable for their graphic and chromatic intensity, and vital with the traces of japonisme as much as the stylistic seeds of Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter and later Expression