Making Van Gogh

Hardback

Main Details

Title Making Van Gogh
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alexander Eiling
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 230
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Individual artists and art monographs
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
ISBN/Barcode 9783777432984
ClassificationsDewey:759.9492
Audience
General
Illustrations 304 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 12 December 2019
Publication Country Germany

Description

Making van Gogh focuses on the oeuvre of Vincent van Gogh in the context of its reception. The publication examines the particular role which German gallerists, collectors, critics and museums played in the story of his success. At the same time it sheds light on the importance of van Gogh as a role model for the avant-garde generation of artists. "Van Gogh is dead, but the van Gogh-chaps are alive! And how alive they are! It is van Goghing everywhere", was how Ferdinand Avenarius described it in 1910 in the magazine Der Kunstwart. Vincent van Gogh's paintings exerted a particular fascination on young artists in Germany at the beginning of the twentieth century. Barely fifteen years after his death the Dutch artist was seen as one of the most important forerunners of modern painting. A selection of key works from all van Gogh's creative phases are juxtaposed with works by Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Munter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and others.

Author Biography

Alexander Eiling is head of collections for modern art at the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Felix Kramer is general director of the Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf.