Jane Kallir Bücher

Noch nie gab es ein vergleichbares Buch über Gustav Klimt, das in dieser Qualität und Vollständigkeit die Werke des begnadeten Jugendstilkünstlers zeigte. Der luxuriöse Prachtband mit seinen hochqualitativen Abbildungen spiegelt die sinnliche und intellektuelle Kraft der Gemälde, Fresken und Mosaike Klimts einzigartig wider. Ein komplettes Werkverzeichnis auf dem neuesten Stand der Klimtfoschung sowie eine ausführliche Biographie und Brief- und Fotodokumentation - ein Hochgenuss für alle Klimt-Liebhaber und Kenner.

Das erste Überblickswerk zu Schieles essenziellem Thema – der Frau Eines der Leitmotive in Egon Schieles Werk ist die Frau – in ungezählten Zeichnungen und Gemälden setzte er sich mit den vielen Aspekten des Weiblichen auseinander: Mutter und Schwester, personifizierte Erotik und Geliebte, Ehefrau und Partnerin. Jane Kallir, eine der führenden Schiele-Expertinnen, stellt diesen tiefgründigen Werkkomplex erstmals umfassend dar. Beginnend beim familiären Umfeld, das durch die Mutter und drei ältere Schwestern stark geprägt war, über seine obsessive Beschäftigung mit seinen weiblichen Modellen, die letztlich zu seiner Verhaftung wegen Unzucht mit Minderjährigen führte, bis hin zu seinen Beziehungen zu Wally Neuzil und Edith Harms werden alle zentralen Frauenfiguren thematisiert und durch zahlreiche Abbildungen nachvollziehbar.

Egon Schiele was one of the most influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Now back in print, this magnificent volume of his complete work has thirty-two pages of new material, including 205 extra catalogue raisonné entries, and 245 new illustrations, making it the most comprehensive book on the artist ever published. Renowned Schiele scholar Jane Kallir contributes a copiously illustrated biography of the artist and the catalogue raisonné, which now encompasses more than 3,275 works. A must for serious scholars and collectors, this definitive work also includes an extensive bibliography, a list of exhibitions and details on provenance, signature styles and materials used by the artist.

Jane Kallir's comprehensive work not only charts the rise, flowering and decay of the Wiener Werkstatte, but assesses its extraordinary artistic achievements in every branch of design. In doing so, the author analyzes for the first time the dense web of connections―institutional and educational, intellectual and social―that enabled the imaginative leaders of the Werkstatte to impress upon the Austrian elite and the world beyond their visual ideals and stylistic idiom.  ―Carl E. Schorske At the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna emerged as a great cultural centre that stood at the forefront of developments in music, psychology, and the natural sciences. Equally influential, and still tremendously popular today, are the designs of the Wiener Werkstatte, or Vienna Workshop, a group that was at the heart of the city's cultural scene and whose collaborators included such luminaries as the architect Josef Hoffman, the designer Koloman Moser, and the painters Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele. This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siecle Vienna is an excellent introduction to their work in all media - from architecture, furniture, ceramics, and glass, to silver, fashion, and textiles, bookbinding, toys, painting, and the graphic arts - as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period. 55 color plates and 195 black & white illustrations

Schiele's oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman.This book assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career.The book is organized chronologically and divided into year-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that discusses the major events in Schiele's life and the interrelation between the artist's drawing and developments in his oil painting. Features a previously unpublished Schiele watercolor and several works that have never been reproduced in color.