Results for "Honnef, Klaus"

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Holl... Read More about Warhol (Basic Art)

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he... Read More about Richter (Basic Art)

Olaf Schlote's haunting photographic portraits of first-generation Holocaust survivors Photographer Olaf Schlote (born 1961) journeyed from Auschwitz to Majdanek to Stutthof and finally Israel, where he photographed 11 first-generation Holocaust survivors who began anew there. Memories gathers Schlo... Read More about Olaf Schlote: Memories

It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely a... Read More about Josef Heinrich Darchinger. Wirtschaftswunder

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Ar... Read More about Pop Art (Basic Art)

An astonishing collection of images by the influential postwar German fashion photographer, F.C. Gundlach--beloved by fashion insiders, but little known to the mainstream, until now The photography of F.C. Gundlach defines the look of post-war fashion in Germany. Using strong contrast effects, he wa... Read More about F.C. Gundlach: The Photographic Work