Susanne Meyer-Büser
2) Chagall
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Marc Chagall's poetic dreamscapes and vibrant colors continue to fascinate to this day. But who was Marc Chagall? How did the eldest son of an Orthodox Jewish family from the provinces of the Russian Empire become the celebrated prodigy of the Parisian avant-garde? This catalog follows Chagall through his career, showing how he combined the motifs of his homeland with the stylistic devices of modern painting in a unique way-while also revealing the...
Publisher
Foundation Beyeler
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Mondrian shaped the evolution of painting from figuration to abstraction. His early work was influenced not only by late 19th century Dutch landscape painting but also by Symbolism and Cubism. It was only in the early 1920s that he began concentrating on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary consisting...
