Joachim Jäger Libros

The Neue Nationalgalerie, which was erected in 1965-68, is the only building by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany from after the Second World War. With its steel roof over the glass-walled exhibition hall and its reduced design vocabulary, it is regarded as an icon of modernism and as the legacy of a visionary master builder. Following the restoration by the firm David Chipperfield Architects, the Neue Nationalgalerie is reopening with new glory in 2021. With numerous specialist texts and large-format photographs, the book focuses on the architecture of the museum in three thematic groups: the historical building, the fundamental restoration, and the renovated building. Detailed and large-format photographs heighten awareness of the unique architecture, which Mies van der Rohe designed down to the smallest detail.

The Neue Nationalgalerie is more than just a museum or a building. It is a milestone in the history of architecture, a memorial, an icon. Designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the building is especially well known for its fifty-by-fifty-meter glass hall. With this singular pavilion structure, Mies van der Rohe set a virtuoso close to his decades-long exploration of „fluid“ space. There is hardly another building of his in which the boundary between interior and exterior is as permeable as it is here. In many ways, the Neue Nationalgalerie can be seen as Mies's legacy and the quintessence of his thought. This publication presents the building from today's perspective, but it also features historical photographs taken during the construction period, the building's opening in 1968, and the spectacular exhibitions that took place there in its early years.(German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3144-7)

The name of K. O. Götz is connected to German Art Informel like no other. Experimental and innovative, he had a significant impact on this style from the very beginning. The fact that Götz never works without a clear concept has wide-ranging consequences for his artistic practice. The pictorial composition is always determined, but the execution is rapid, spontaneous and dynamic. The bilingual catalogue published on the occasion of his 100th birthday provides an overview of his epochal artistic oeuvre with a selection of more than 80 works of art

Am 15. September 1968 eröffnete die Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Das weltweit einzigartige Museum hat Architekturgeschichte geschrieben und die Ästhetik vieler Ausstellungen geprägt. Eine 350-seitige Publikation mit rund 500 eindrucksvollen, weitgehend unbekannten Fotografien bebildert die besondere Ausstellungsgeschichte des Museums. Spektakuläre Projekte von Mark Rothko über Yves Klein, die Metamusik Festivals, das MoMA in Berlin, Gerhard Richter bis Kraftwerk erzählen die Geschichte des Hauses. Von jedem Direktor programmatisch und jeder Generation visuell geprägt bildet das Buch die Zeitströmungen in Kunst und Gesellschaft ab. Persönliche Erinnerungen von Udo Kittelmann, Katharina Grosse, Rem Koolhaas und vielen anderen begleiten den emotionalen Spaziergang durch das Haus.

Der Reader „Die Teheran Moderne“ bietet einen vielschichtigen Einblick in die Entwicklung der Bildenden Kunst im Iran seit den 1960er Jahren. Seine Texte laden zu einer Beschäftigung mit der iranischen Moderne ein. Es ist eine Moderne, zu deren Besonderheit ein dynamischer Entstehungsprozess zählt, der fast unvermittelt in den 1950er Jahren einsetzte und innerhalb von wenigen Jahrzehnten zur vollen Entfaltung gelangte. Diese „Teheran Moderne“ ist nicht losgelöst von internationalen Entwicklungen zu begreifen und öffnet zugleich neue Perspektiven auf die „eigene“ Westmoderne - Text in deutscher und englische Sprache.