BISCHOFF ULRICH

(H/B) Max Ernst
With unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (1891-1976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking loose from the confined view of the culture of his time, he became one of the most important figures of Dadaism and Surrealism. Driven by the counter-reaction to the horrors of World War I, he became a pioneer of the Dada movement. The closing of the famed Dada exhibit in Cologne for 'obscenity' led Ernst to spend the rest of his life in Paris, where he came in contact with the Surrealists. Above all, Ernst...
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(H/B) MUNCH
A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created Mona Lisa for our times. The shriek of his iconic figure reverberates around the world, its echo resounding in the work of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Martin Kippenberger, Marlene Dumas, and Tracey Emin. This introductory book surveys Munch's staggering capacity for psychodrama in The Scream and beyond. With rich illustration, it looks at the lurid, da...
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EDVARD MUNCH 1863-1944
Those who go to Oslo and seek out the work of Edvard Munch will find that one of the clearest impressions they can gain of the Norwegian artist's work is a painting that was done in 1895, probably in Berlin, and which now hangs in the central room of the sky-lit gallery in the National Gallery. The painting is the Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette (p. 6). A comparison of this work with the 1885 Portrait of the Painter Gerhard Munthe (p. 7), also in the National Gallery and done by Munch's teacher, Christian Krohg (1852-1925), is instruc...
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(P/B) MAX ERNST, 1891-1976
Facts in the life of Max Ernst are seldom to be relied upon. If we make the attempt to delve into the biography of this man, now recognized as the outstanding artist that he was, we are confronted by a fine "Tissue of Lies and Truth" as Max Ernst himself sub-titled his autobiography. It was part of his particular brand of artistic originality to set traps into which the analytical investigator will invariably stumble. Since these traps were laid by the master himself with a certain reason in mind, they may be of help to us in our attempt t...
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ΜΟΥΝΚ ΕΝΤΒΑΡΝΤ 1863-1944
"Ζωγράφιζα ό,τι ερέθιζε το εσωτερικό μου βλέμμα. Ζωγράφιζα από μνήμης, δίχως να προσθέσω οτιδήποτε, δίχως τις λεπτομέρειες, που είχα πάψει να τις βλέπω μπροστά μου. Αυτός είναι ο λόγος που οι πίνακές μου είναι τόσο απλοί, τόσο εμφανώς "άδειοι". Ζωγράφισα τις εντυπώσεις από την παιδική μου ηλικία, τα μουντά χρώματα μιας ξεχασμένης εποχής". ΕΝΤΒΑΡΝΤ ΜΟΥΝΚ (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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