New Worlds : German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940

by Edited by Renée Price; With the assistance of Pamela Kort and Leslie Topp

• ISBN13: 9780300094466
• ISBN10: 0300094469
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-01-15
• Publisher: Dumont Buchverlag

Summary

This magnificent book, the inaugural catalogue of the Neue Galerie New York, is the first book to bring to light the history of the works of fine and decorative artists of Germany and Austria between 1890 and 1940. Focusing on 26 visual artists and 18 decorative artists whose work is represented in the Neue Galerie New York collection, the catalogue offers an overview of their works and situates them within the history of their reception in twentieth-century America. It also tells the stories of the numerous museum officials, patrons, art dealers, and journalists who brought these artworks to the attention of the American public.

The catalogue illuminates the little-known facts of German and Austrian artists' reception in America through biographies that describe the highlights of their lives and careers as well as their presentations in the United States. A variety of catalogue essays examine such topics as the cultural context within which German and Austrian Expressionism arose, public response to museum presentations of German art, formalistic issues in A

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(1)
Preface	8	(2)
Ronald S. Lauder
Foreword	10	(4)
Renee Price
VIENNA CIRCA 1900
Modernism in Vienna	14	(122)
Patrick Werkner
George Minne	32	(8)
Olaf Peters
Alfred Kubin	40	(8)
Jane Kallir
Gustav Klimt	48	(20)
Marian Bisanz-Prakken
Richard Gerstl	68	(8)
Jane Kallir
Egon Schiele	76	(28)
Jane Kallir
Oskar Kokoschka	104	(22)
Keith Holz
Checklist	126	(10)
GERMANY AFTER 1900
The Expressionist Impulse in German Painting	136	(78)
Peter Selz
Wilhelm Lehmbruck	146	(8)
Olaf Peters
Lovis Corinth	154	(10)
Maria Makela
BRUCKE
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	164	(12)
Reinhold Heller
Erich Heckel	176	(10)
Tayfun Belgin
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff	186	(8)
Rose-Carol Washton Long
Hermann Max Pechstein	194	(10)
Keith Holz
Emil Nolde	204	(10)
Olaf Peters
BLAUE REITER
Modernism's German Roots: The Birth and Survival of Expressionism	214	(46)
Serge Sabarsky
Gabriele Munter	218	(12)
Reinhold Heller
Vasily Kandinsky	230	(14)
Vivian Endicott Barnett
Franz Marc	244	(8)
Olaf Peters
August Macke	252	(8)
Olaf Peters
The Myths of Expressionism in America	260	(144)
Pamela Kort
DADA AND NEUE SACHLICHKEIT
Max Beckmann	296	(14)
Olaf Peters
Otto Dix	310	(10)
Olaf Peters
Christian Schad	320	(6)
Olaf Peters
George Grosz	326	(14)
Barbara McCloskey
Kurt Schwitters	340	(12)
Karin Orchard
BAUHAUS
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy	352	(8)
Magdalena Droste
Lyonel Feininger	360	(10)
Barbara McCloskey
Paul Klee	370	(12)
Christine Hopfengart
Oskar Schlemmer	382	(10)
Karin von Maur
Checklist	392	(12)
VIENNESE DECORATIVE ARTS AROUND 1900
Toward an Aesthetic of Individuality	404	(112)
Christian Witt-Dorring
Color Plates	412	(48)
Checklist	460	(12)
Otto Wagner	472	(4)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Adolf Loos	476	(4)
Burkhardt Rukschcio
Josef Hoffmann	480	(6)
Leslie Topp
Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill	486	(4)
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier
Koloman Moser	490	(5)
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier
Jutta Sika	495	(3)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Therese Trethan	498	(2)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Otto Prutscher	500	(3)
Matthias Boecki
Hans Prutscher	503	(2)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Joseph Urban	505	(5)
Markus Kristan
Dagobert Peche	510	(6)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
APPLIED ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY, 1890S-1930S
Culture, Style, and the Autonomy of the Object	516	(56)
Laurie A. Stein
Color Plates	524	(20)
Checklist	544	(4)
Peter Behrens	548	(5)
Laurie A. Stein
Marcel Breuer	553	(4)
Manfred Ludewig
Magdalena Droste
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe	557	(5)
Franz Schulze
Marianne Brandt	562	(3)
Manfred Ludewig
Magdalena Droste
Theodor Bogler	565	(2)
Manfred Ludewig
Magdalena Droste
Wilhelm Wagenfeld	567	(3)
Manfred Ludewig
Magdalena Droste
Hans Przyrembel	570	(2)
Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Moments in the Reception of Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Decorative Arts in the United States	572	(12)
Leslie Topp
Bibliography	584	(8)
Index	592	(7)
Photograph Credits	599	(1)
Copyright Credits	600