Product Description: Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435 treatise De pictura influenced generations of painters by suggesting that a painting should be approached as an open window. By the twentieth century, the window had transformed into a motif that would test the limits of painting...read more

Product Description: Founded in 1990, Luwa AG's rarely exhibited photography collection is one of the world's most comprehensive gatherings of conceptual photography. It contains major works by artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sigmar Polke, Imi Knoebel, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Fischli/Weiss, Roman Signer, Richard Prince, Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stan Douglas and Gabriel Orozco...read more

Product Description: The Luminous West unites 33 artists from two generations to define the artistic landscape of Germany's Rhineland and North Rhine-Westphalia regions. Among them are Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Isa Genzken, Andreas Gursky, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel and others...read more

Product Description: The German photographic movement commonly known as the Düsseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye...read more

Product Description: Bound as a leatherette notebook, Car Gwyllt introduces an important German artist. Roth's installations attempt a destabilization of rational order through a range of media--drawings, objects, photographs, texts and both documentary and fictional elements--that combine to spin strange narratives between objects, confounding routine taxonomy...read more

Product Description: Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) lived and worked in Rome from 1600 to 1610. While artists like Caravaggio, Carracci and Rubens laid the foundations of the Baroque style, Elsheimer contributed with his main medium: miniatures painted on copper...read more

Product Description: Highly influential artist and teacher John Baldessari became known in late 1960s Southern California as a conceptual painter, and since then he has worked in a variety of other media, including photography, artist books, video and printmaking...read more

Product Description: Though Gerhard Richter is one of the most accomplished and best-known contemporary German artists, and his paintings are widely exhibited, his collectorís editions have attracted relatively little public attention. This catalogue raisonné, compiled through intensive research over a period of many years by art historian Hubertus Butin, Richter's former assistant, documents the full range of graphic and photographic editions as well as the artistís books, multiples and editions in oil realized by the artist between 1965 and 2004...read more