Gothic modern : Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz / edited by Ralph Gleis ; with texts by Ralph Gleis, Stephan Kemperdick, Marja Lahelma, Juliet Simpson, Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Julia Zaunbauer ; artist biographies by Ulrich Heiß ; translation from the German: Gérard Goodrow.
Contributor(s): Gleis, Ralph [editor, writer of added commentary.]
| Heiss, Ulrich [contributor.] | Kemperdick, Stephan [contributor.] | Lahelma, Marja [contributor.] | Simpson, Juliet [contributor.] | Hansen, Vibeke Waallann [contributor.] | Zaunbauer, Julia [contributor.] | Goodrow, Gérard A [translator.] | Erzherzogliche Kunstsammlung Albertina [host institution.].
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BookPublisher: Munich : Hirmer, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 292 pages : colour illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783777446271.Subject(s): Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950 -- Exhibitions | Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 -- Exhibitions | Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945 -- Exhibitions | Modernism (Art) -- Europe -- Exhibitions | Art, Gothic -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 700.415 Summary: "The exhibition catalogue examines medieval art and European modernism together: Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and other modern artists borrowed stylistic or thematic elements from the Gothic model, translating these motifs into a contemporary formal language. The artworks that resulted possess great emotional and creative power and continue to resonate today" - publisher's website.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.415 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00238029 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe's north and German lands via paintings, prints and. in other artistic media to imagine a new 'Gothic modernity', unlocking a different energy of modern art and creative experiment beyond nation-centric stories.
The book sheds light on the profound importance. of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe. Kollwitz and their contemporaries. It explores their reimagining of Gothic art between the 1870s and 1920s to create new visions of the artist, 'belonging', modern society, sexuality, spirituality and identity. In these ways, a distant Gothic age is recreated as tantalisingly close to 'modernity', in short, to making modern art. Dark or radiant, enchanted or uncanny, these sites of 'Gothic modernity' inspired Munch's and Kollwitz's generation with urgent imaginaries for creating worlds. Artists: Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Arnold Böcklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Albrecht Dürer, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vincent van Gogh, Matthias Grünewald, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Hans Holbein d. J., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Theodor Kittelsen, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Max Klinger, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, George Minne, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Helene Schjerfbeck, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Hugo Simberg, Martin Schongauer, Marianne Stokes
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Albertina Museum, Vienna, September 19, 2025 - January 11, 2026.
Includes bibliographical references.
"The exhibition catalogue examines medieval art and European modernism together: Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and other modern artists borrowed stylistic or thematic elements from the Gothic model, translating these motifs into a contemporary formal language. The artworks that resulted possess great emotional and creative power and continue to resonate today" - publisher's website.