Tag: Germany

  • The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Marzo

    For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. During his career, Zinsser has remained committed to the possibilities of painting and abstraction, while the contemporary art market moves from one trend…

  • Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape

    The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and readings of the land have a weighty and protracted precedence but in the 1970s, far-reaching revisions were explored by artists. These have generated a powerful…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • Tales of two cities: Berlin, Dresden

    These are stirring times for architecture ‘watchers’ in Germany’s two famous cities; Berlin, the capital, and Dresden, culture capital of the south-east. The re-opening of the neo-Baroque and now restored Bode Museum in Berlin, sitting on its island and commanding…

  • Holbein in England

    Tate Britain, London 28 September 2006-7 January 2007 Hans Holbein the Younger was an artist and painter by profession, and a humanist intellectual by inclination and persuasion. He grew up in Augsburg in southern Germany where the Italian Renaissance was…

  • Celtic Vision

    John Bellany: A Scottish Odyssey Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg 16 June-3 September 2006 John Bellany’s (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced in Britain in recent history. Layered with references to the Expressionistic tradition in art (Bosch, Breughel,…

  • Daniel Libeskind: Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück

    Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Germany Architect: Daniel Libeskind

  • Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany

    The first scheme described here was initially designed by the architects James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Partners With Walter Nageli (1992) Additions by Michael Wilford and Partners were completed this year. The works complex designed by James Stirling and Michael…

  • Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany – Masterwork Revisited

    Masterwork Revisited: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Partners (With Walter Nageli ). Followed by Michael Wilford GmbH Architecture and Landscape United.