Klaus Albrecht Schröder Libros

The Principality of Liechtenstein in the heart of Europe is famous for its medieval castles and charming Alpine landscapes and villages. On the occasion of its 300th anniversary, the Albertina in Vienna is hosting a comprehensive exhibition. The works presented here illustrate the remarkable spectrum of Liechtenstein’s collection policy. The unique holdings of the Princely Collections are thus presented for the first time in such detail in this two-volume publication. Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein im Herzen Europas ist bekannt für seine mittelalterlichen Burgen und seine reizvollen Alpenlandschaften und Dörfer. Die Hauptstadt Vaduz ist seit langem ein Zentrum der Kultur und Finanzwirtschaft. Anlässlich seines 300jährigen Bestehens zeigt die Albertina in Wien, der Stadt, in der die Liechtensteinische Fürstenfamilie bis zum Jahr 1938 lebte, eine umfangreiche Ausstellung. Die im vorliegenden Band repräsentierten Werke illustrieren das bemerkenswerte Spektrum fürstlicher Sammlungspolitik – von Peter Paul Rubens berühmter Venus vor dem Spiegel über ausgewählte Kunstschätze der herausragenden Biedermeierkollektion bis zu den spektakulären Neuerwerbungen der letzten 15 Jahre. Die einzigartigen Bestände der Sammlungen werden dem Leser in einer zweibändigen Publikation erstmals umfassend vorgestellt.

Art critic Rudij Bergmann has stated, "For Neo Rauch, painting is reflection on what is no longer present. His is a decidedly romantic attitude of refusal that gives deeper meaning to figures frozen strangely in motion--as an allegory of universal alienation from the world and rejection of technology and as a melancholy homage to the unfulfilled promise of freedom and human happiness. There is a constant stream of memory in these works, not only of world history but also of childhood, Pop Art, and comics." Rauch possesses an artistic style and sensibility that place his paintings among the most original of our time. Rauch's palettes and compositions are reminiscent of postwar illustrations; so are his figures. They belong in the past, constantly at work in a world filled with industrial symbolism. These symbols, themselves easily identified, are difficult to interpret in the context of the works, in part due to Rauch's painterly style, ominous colors and skewed perspectives. The dichotomies at play in his work provide an overall sense of false comfort tinged with disturbance, of a situation brewing, threatening to reveal itself. This book presents his recent large works on paper completed in 2003 and 2004.

This book focuses for the first time on the relationship between drawing and painting in Van Gogh's Art. Includes 50 paintings and 120 major watercolours and drawings by Van Gogh.

Egon Eros and Passion Klaus Albrecht Schröder In this brilliant analysis, the erotic work of the Expressionist artist is examined within the perspective of history’s shifting views concerning beauty, aesthetics, and decency. Egon Schiele’s controversial nudes and self-portraits were fiercely reviled when they first appeared in the early decades of the twentieth century and, nearly one hundred years later, they still have the power to shock. Examining why Schiele’s work elicits this response, the author explores the social constrictions of Schiele’s generation and the role of the artist as a breaker of taboos. Incorporating superb reproductions of Schiele’s works, those of his contemporaries, and historical photographs, the author offers a penetrating study of an artist whose idea of beauty transcended the morality of his time. Klaus Albrecht Schröder is Director of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Approximately 400 exquisite paintings, drawings, furniture, decorative objects, and clothing, with commentaries by leading scholars in the field. „viennaartbookaward,“ 2007

140 masterpieces of painting demonstrate the parallel development of widely different styles, design principles and aesthetic ideas. The avant-garde artists influenced each other and were sometimes in conflict with each other. At the same time you could find advocates of representational Expressionism and supporters of pure abstraction; styles like Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism followed each other in succession. Surprising contrasts of works visualize the differences, so that the successive conflicting -isms are clearly demonstrated. Through this visual confrontation the picture of all the many different forms of Russian avant-garde come alive. With works by Altman,Chagall, Exter, Gontscharowa, Griogorijew, Kandinsky, Larionow, Lissitzky, Malewitsch, Petrow-Wodkin, Popowa, Rodtschenko and many ohters. Exhibition: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (26.02-26.06.2016).

The presentation Masterworks of architectural drawing provides new insights into this fascinating genre: a selection of around 120 highlights from the Albertina's important collection of architecture-related works covers a period running from the Late Gothic and the Renaissance to the Baroque and Classicism, to Historicism and Art Nouveau, and continuing all the way to the architecture of the present day. World-famous drawings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Theophil von Hansen, Adolf Loos, Frank Lloyd Wright, Clemens Holzmeister or Hans Hollein and many others reveal the essence and unique qualities of architectural sketches while also showing painters' compositional takes on and naturalistic perceptions of buildings, architectural ensembles, and cities.