Product Description: The Lenbachhaus Book published in conjunction with its reinauguration in 2013 presents all departments of the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbacchaus collections in a single representative volume. Founded as a modest museum for works bearing a direct relation to Munich, the institution residing in the former villa of the "prince of painters" Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904) is now world-renowned for its stunningly rich collection of paintings by the members of the Blue Rider as well as the no less eminent and unique selection of contemporary art in its holdings...read more

Product Description: Cosmos offers a selected overview of Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer (born 1929). The selection ranges from the artist’s earliest abstractions and finger paintings to his silent, large-format “overpaintings” from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, to the delicately colored “veil paintings” of the 1990s...read more

Product Description: Active in Germany in the years leading up to World War I, the Blue Rider was a collective of artists, cofounded by Wassily Kandinsky, that was a key influence on Expressionism. This volume offers a highly illustrated tour through the large collection of watercolors, drawings, and prints from the group that are held by the Lenbachhaus Munich...read more

Product Description: English summary: As an artist, spiritualist and Darwinist, Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) was an extraordinary figure. His central interest was the development of man, its origin, nature and survival. This catalog to the exhibition at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus offers a spectacular and comprehensive presentation of Max's paintings, research and collections...read more

Product Description: As the renewer of art in the 20th century, Wassily Kandinsky created roughly 230 woodcuts, linocuts, et?chings, lithographs and posters. From 1 901 until the final years of his life, his work was accompanied by a steady output of prints, some of which were based on previously created paintings, and some of which were completely independent works of art...read more

Product Description: Now available in a flexi edition, this book explores Gerhard Richter's mesmerizing abstract paintings from a particularly fertile period of one of the most important living artists. Startling colors, soft grays, undulating lines and large canvases are the hallmark of Richter's abstract period...read more

Product Description: In Which Something Happens All Over Again For The Very First Time is the first comprehensive publication to deal with the sculptural installations, film projections, neon texts and sound productions of the Welsh artist, Cerith Wyn Evans...read more

Product Description: This monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of our time. Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist’s thinking, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962...read more

Product Description: That which is seen and the act of seeing have long been preoccupations of Irish-born artist James Coleman. Having rejected painting in the 1970s, Coleman turned to the reproductive media of video and film, as well as theater projects, but his preferred format remains photography displayed through large-scale slide projection...read more

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Product Description: An artist's book totally conceived and designed by Urs Lthi on his computer*and as such the book reflects in a truly direct way Lthi's pictorial ideas. The book's central theme is the satirizing of global leisure culture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a museum guide to Gabriele Munter and the blue Rider artists in their original location in Murnau, Germany. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Housing a unique collection of works by the "Blue Rider" artists, the Lenbachhaus justifies its reputation and fame. This building, in the style of a Tuscan villa, is also home to a significant collection of 19th-century paintings of the Munich school and more recent acquisitions of 20th-century works by famous artists...read more