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Item Number: 136602
Title: Künstler und Propheten. Eine geheime Geschichte der Moderne 1872-1972
Author: Hollein, Max ; Max Kort (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783864421167
Description: Köln: Snoeck, 2015. 30cm., pbk., 512pp., ca. 470 illus. Exhibiiton held at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. German text. Summary: Egon Schiele saw himself as a visionary and prophetic artist, František Kupka forged an abstract style of painting infused with spiritist principles, Joseph Beuys called for a revolution under the rubric of “social sculpture,” and Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an ecological crusader whose spiral paintings were holistic in essence. These pioneering artistic attitudes and developments would have not come about without contact with several so-called ‘prophets’. Some of these were artist-naturists, others were modern-day Christs, while still others saw themselves as social revolutionaries of a kind. Their relevance for modern art remains a largely untold story. Today, their names—Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Gusto Gräser, Gustav Nagel, as well as Friedrich Muck-Lamberty and Ludwig Christian Haeusser—have almost been forgotten. During their lifetime, however, they were widely known among a broad-based public and in avant-garde circles. Artists and intellectuals also admired them, albeit often behind closed doors. Illustrated works by such artists as František Kupka, Egon Schiele, Johannes Baader, Heinrich Vogeler, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Joseph Beuys, and Jörg Immendorff as well as a variety of documentation materials. The publication both reveals causalities and establishes unexpected connections. It also embeds the prophets and the artistic avant-garde in a wide-ranging social historical context.
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