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For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often identified as one of the earliest expressions of psychic experience. Chagall's canvases are characterized by loose brushwork, deep colors, a particular fondness for blue, and a repertoire of recurring tropes including musicians, roosters, rooftops, flowers, and floating lovers. For all their ethereal...

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction. Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: "To every age its art - to every art its freedom;" and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century. Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a "laboratory of modernity," one which nurtured some of the...

It's Christmas Eve in the forest. Will Santa bring us presents? squeaks Mouse. Of course not! huffs Badger. Santa doesn't even we're here. But clever Bear has a plan. He sets his friends to work making reindeer snacks and a huge tree to attract Father Christmas attention. We just have to believe! Bear tells them. But will Santa really come? From author Steve Metzger (Pluto Visits Earth!) comes a tale of belief and friendship to light up the holiday season. Packed with plenty of...

The roaring twenties in Berlin It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich’s rising star in theater and silent film. Between the paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and thought. This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of Berlin’s Weimar age....

Zwischen Dr. Caligari und Hitler – Berlin in den Goldenen Zwanzigern Die 1920er-Jahre sind Berlins goldenes Jahrzehnt. Das Nachkriegselend wollen sie vergessen machen, bevor sich nach einem kurzen Intermezzo Wirtschaftskrise und Nationalsozialismus Bahn brechen. Berlin erfahrt in den 1920ern einen ungeheuren Modernisierungsschub und ist plotzlich eine moderne, rasante Weltstadt, die nicht mehr schlafen geht und zum ewigen Sehnsuchtsort hedonistischer Fantasien wird: Vom Alexanderplatz fahrt...

Eldorado der Kunste – Wien um 1900 Zwischen 1890 und 1910 kam es in Wien zu einer verbluffenden Konzentration von neuen Denkansatzen und au?erordentlichen Innovationen in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Erstaunlicherweise wurden diese Dekaden erst in den 1980ern als entscheidender Zeitraum in der Geschichte der Moderne erkannt und unter dem Label „Wiener Moderne“ zum intensiv bearbeiteten Forschungsgegenstand und beliebten Ausstellungsthema. Jugendstil und Psychoanalyse, Zwolftonmusik,...

Genie et angoisse existentielle d’un maitre de l’expressionnisme L’histoire de Vincent van Gogh est l’une des plus tragiques de l’histoire de l’art. Aujourd’hui, le monde entier le considere comme un des peintres les plus importants de tous les temps : les expositions qui lui sont consacrees font fureur, les plus grands musees lui rendent hommage et ses ?uvres battent des records aux encheres en se vendant des dizaines de millions de dollars. Mais alors qu’il peignait les toiles qui...

L’?uvre fascinante d’une ame tourmentee Aujourd’hui, l’?uvre de Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) est l’une des plus connues et appreciees dans le monde. On reconnait, dans des peintures comme Les Tournesols, La Nuit etoilee ou Autoportrait a l’oreille bandee, la patte unique d’un artiste doue pour figurer les matieres et la lumiere, saisir une atmosphere et un instant. Pourtant, sa vie durant, Van Gogh s’est battu contre l’indifference de ses contemporains, et contre des crises devastatrices...

Genie et angoisse existentielle d’un talent torture De nos jours, les ?uvres de Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) sont parmi les plus celebres et reconnues dans le monde. Ces peintures telles que les Tournesols, La Nuit etoilee ou l’Autoportrait a l’oreille bandee revelent un artiste a l’habilete unique pour figurer les matieres et ambiances, la lumiere et les lieux. Pourtant, van Gogh s’est battu toute sa vie contre le desinteret de ses contemporains, mais aussi contre des acces de folie...