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Glamour, money, intrigue and scandal defined the life of Hungarian portrait painter Vilma Parlaghy (1863-1924), who owed her reputation to the rejection of her works by the major Berlin Art Expositions and to a gold medal she received from Kaiser Wilhelm II. Emperors, kings, ministers, and industrial magnates posed for her, and marriage to a Russian aristocrat earned her the appellation "Painter Princess". After her divorce, she continued her career in America, where she painted portraits of steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, President Theodore Roosevelt, and the ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla. She became a millionaire but lost everything in the end. She died in New York at the age of 60, and is largely forgotten today - not least because she took her greatest work of art, her own person, with her to the grave. Portraits of international high society Art and society around 1900

Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (*1947 in Zwenkau near Leipzig) is one of the most important painters of his generation in Germany, an initiator of the legendary First Leipzig Autumn Salon in 1984, regarded as a milestone exhibition in non-conformist GDR art. For more than 40 years, he has been painting at the fringes of abstraction. He is preoccupied with the experience of letting go, detaching himself from the figurative and the narrative, from East German identity, thus breaking away from predetermined physical forms. Grimmling visualizes his prime concern: the drama, the struggle, and the tragedy of human existence. Large areas, wide swaths and interlinked bands of black stretch across the canvas. The colour black prevails, becoming intoxicating and, for two decades now, the painter's only visual content. This publication is the first monographic work to present Grimmling's complete oeuvre. Retrospective of a non-conformist GDR artist An overview with works from five decades Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, 14.09.2014 to 08.02.2025, book launch in January 2025

Dieses Buch dokumentiert die Wiederverwendung von Materialien der Huber-Pavillons der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Ausgehend von diesem konkreten Projekt stellt die Autorin Catherine De Wolf den Paradigmenwechsel von einer linearen zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft heraus. Es zeigt sich, dass projektbasiertes Lernen und die Kollaboration zwischen Wissenschaft, Industrie und Regierung innovative Entwurfslösungen vorantreiben können. Dokumentation von Elias Knecht.

Art meets architecture: Bettina Cohnen brings together East and West as well as combining a photo essay and photographic art in ''Duett der Moderne''. In her photo series, she shows people in the famous post-war Berlin neighbourhoods of Karl-Marx-Allee and the Hansaviertel in their surroundings, with all their complexity and intimacy. At the same time, she traces the idea behind the respective architecture. After all, the essential concern of modernist architects was good and affordable housing for everyone. This applied as from 1950 to the planning of the 'Sozialistische Straße' and later Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin as well as to the new Hansaviertel in West Berlin in 1957. Today, the rivalry between the systems has turned into a duet: a duo uniting East and West. The catalogue for the exhibition ''Duett der Moderne'' combines photo essay and photographic art, the mediation of architectural culture, and the living history of monuments. Stories behind the facades: Photo artist Bettina Cohnen shows people in Berlin's East and West neighbourhoods, and sets architecture and history into a new artistic context Exhibition: Mitte Museum, Berlin, February to September 2025

Images of chaos cannot truly exist, as they would show the state of the world before its creation. Nevertheless, from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the present day, there have been repeated attempts to visualize what eludes our experience. interplay with the conceptual history of chaos forces images of chaos to iconic aporias: this book presents a first comprehensive examination of such ideas.From the first depiction of chaos in a provincial Roman mosaic, the field of investigation extends into the 18th century and includes excursions into 19th-21st century art. Chaos images are characterized by entangled pagan and Christian ideas. In the Daoist tradition of China, visual concepts of chaos lead to extremely subtle iconic aporias.

Wood is an exceptionally versatile building material that has been gaining popularity in the construction industry for several years. With skilful utilisation of various wood types and appropriate construction methods, it can be applied to almost any building task. Its advantages are particularly evident in projects in existing buildings. This is because it is comparatively lightweight and easy to prefabricate, enabling even structurally demanding extensions to be completed quickly and cost-effectively. Part of the renowned DETAIL Practice series, this book equips architects with the expertise needed to tackle the challenges of their next refurbishment project.