Simonetta Fraquelli Bücher

In seinen frühen Gemälden reagiert Marc Chagall (1887–1985) auf die Strömungen seiner Zeit wie Fauvismus, Kubismus, Suprematismus und Surrealismus. Voller Poesie und Eigensinn zelebriert er sein persönliches Erleben auf erzählerische und theatralische Weise. Die Publikation widmet sich den Ursprüngen der Chagallschen Formsprache, Farbgebung und Symbolik und zeichnet prägende Einflüsse und Stationen im Leben des wegweisenden Avantgardisten anhand früher, abstrakter ebenso wie figurativer Werke nach: Deren narrative Elemente und folkloristische Motive, ihre leisen Anklänge von Nostalgie, inspirieren nicht nur Gefühl und Fantasie des Betrachters, sondern verweisen zugleich auf Chagalls Aufenthalt in Paris vor dem ersten Weltkrieg, seine Reise nach Berlin und dortige Ausstellung in der Galerie Herwarth Walden 1914 sowie die Jahre um die Zeit der Revolution, die er in seiner russischen Heimat verbrachte. Ausstellungen: Kunsthaus Zürich 8.2.–12.5.2013 Tate Liverpool 7.6.–29.9.2013

Examination of the styles employed by Picasso in his art during the years of World War I, and also discusses the costumes by Picasso for the ballet Parade in 1917.

Edited with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, this catalog demonstrates how Modigliani’s partnership with his gallerist Paul Guillaume influenced his painting. Amedeo Modigliani, a Jewish-Italian painter, arrived in Paris in 1906. His meeting with Constantin Brancusi in 1909 inspired Modigliani to sculpt—almost exclusively—until 1914, when he met art dealer Paul Guillaume. He returned to painting and produced countless portraits from 1914 until his death in 1920. Modigliani painted prominent contemporaries such as Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob, but also unknown models and the women in his life, including writer Béatrice Hastings and painter Jeanne Hébuterne, his partner and the mother of his child. Guillaume encouraged Modigliani, rented him an atelier in Montmartre, promoted his paintings in Parisian art and literary circles and abroad, and bought, sold, and collected more than a hundred of his paintings, fifty drawings, and a dozen sculptures. Guillaume’s writings offer intimate insight into Modigliani, highlighting their rapport and shared interests in African art, literature, and poetry. Modigliani in turn immortalized Guillaume in four portraits. This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie (September 20, 2023–January 15, 2024).