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This is a concise history from Gluck to Beethoven containing 50 illustrations.

Like many progressive artists of his time, Hans Uhlmann suffered under the reign of the national socialists. He was arrested because of his political stance in 1933 and spent almost two years in prison. In this period, Uhlmann filled multiple diaries and sketchbooks published for the first time in this volume. Not only do they offer invaluable insights into the formation of a unique artistic position and the daily routine behind the bars of a Nazi prison, they call for a reassessment of the status of drawing in Uhlmann's artistic practice, who is often primarily seen as a sculptor.HANS UHLMANN (1900-1975), best known for his works in metal, is one the most influential German artists of the post war era. From 1950 onwards, he taught as professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and participated in numerous major exhibitions such as the São Paulo Biennale, the documenta and the Venice Biennale.

When we visit museums, we rarely become aware of when, why, and by whom the collections found their way into the museum's holdings, or what previous histories the objects bring with them. These are highly topical questions in view of the intense debate on restitution. This publication tells the history of the museum from the perspective of the origins of its holdings - uncovering layers of origin with their coincidences, surprises, and concepts in an exemplary manner and assembling them not only into a new kind of museum history, but also into a history of the reception of cultural heritage. At the same time, this new perspective represents a break with conventional institutional historiography, as it undermines traditional narratives of a conceptually consistent and purposeful inventory construction. The uncompleted is the motto: an invitation to take up the challenge of constantly looking at cultural assets anew.Founded in 1884, the DEUTSCHE BUCH- UND SCHRIFTMUSEUM of the German National Library in Leipzig is considered the world's oldest and, with over one million objects, one of the most important museums in the field of book culture and media history.

Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam. His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a life entwined with the longing to travel as well as uprooting, transit, and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows Beckmann's relationship to film and literature as a producer of images of aspirations and longing resonating with notions of identity and home.MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. A star of the Berlin Secession, Beckmann's career was slowed by World War I and a personal crisis, but continued in the 1920s. After the Nazis forced him to resign his professorship in Frankfurt in 1933, he went into exile in Amsterdam in 1937 and subsequently emigrated to the US in 1947. Teaching in St. Louis and New York, he became the most successful German artist in the United States of his time.

On the occasion of a major retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, the accompanying catalog is dedicated to one of the most important painters of the 20th century and an outstanding figure in modern American art: Georgia O'Keeffe. From her earliest abstractions of the 1910s, which made O'Keeffe a pioneer of American abstract painting, her iconic flower paintings, and her singular landscapes of the American Southwest, to her groundbreaking late work, the richly illustrated catalog offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's multifaceted oeuvre spanning some six decades. Special attention is given to the relevance of O'Keeffe's bold and radical way of seeing, with which she viewed her surroundings and translated them into new and never-before-seen images of reality.GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986) is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. In 1946, she became the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In Santa Fe, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum houses the largest collection of her work in the world.