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Book Review
‘Meine Tendenz ist die der Wahrheit’: Otto Griebel (1895–1972): Leben und Werk
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1090–91
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Reviewer:
Porstmann, Gisbert (Porstmann, Gisbert)
Subjects
artists:
Griebel, Otto
artists:
Grosz, George / Dix, Otto
subjects:
German art / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / Satire
Reviewed Items
subjects:
‘Meine Tendenz ist die der Wahrheit’: Otto Griebel (1895–1972): Leben und Werk By Johannes Schmidt. 400 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Georg Olms Verlag, Baden- Baden, 2022), €88. ISBN 978–3–487–16093–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Self-portrait in front of Dresden burning, by Otto Griebel. 1945. Oil on canvas, 50.3 by 39.9 cm. (Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig).
Article
‘Goethe’s house is severely wrecked’: Lee Miller at Buchenwald and Weimar
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 502-512
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Author:
Günther, Katharina (Günther, Katharina)
Subjects
artists:
Miller, Lee
museums and institutions:
Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Weimar, Germany
museums and institutions:
Schiller Wohnhaus, Weimar, Germany
places:
Buchenwald / Weimar
subjects:
Holocaust (1939-1945) / Photography / Documentation / Germans / World War (1939-1945) / Hitler, Adolf / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
subjects:
women photographers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Lee Miller with the essentials of life, by David E. Scherman. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 6.1 by 6.1 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
10. An Allied flag (probably French) flies in the central courtyard of the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation, by John M. Stix. April 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Judith Saul Stix).
Attributed works:
11. Buidings in Weimar, by Lee Miller. 1945. Schiller’s House is shown in frames 50 and 51. Detail of a vintage contact sheet, 25.4 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
2. Buildings in Weimar, showing Goethe’s House in frames 8–12, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact sheet, 25.4 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
3. Released prisoners in striped prison dress beside a heap of bones from bodies burned in the crematorium at Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. Vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.5 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
4. The Deputy Bürgermeister’s daughter (Regina Lisso), by Lee Miller. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
5. Lee Miller in the bathtub in Hitler’s apartment, Munich, by Lee Miller with David E. Scherman. 1945. Vintage gelatin silver print, 11.4 by 10.8 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
6. Released prisoner, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.5 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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7. Horrors of a concentration camp, unforgettable, unforgivable, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact print, 5.8 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
8. First funeral procession, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact sheet, 25.7 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
9. First funeral procession, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact print 5.9 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Article
The lost years of Edward Julius Detmold: art, nature and war
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 672-681
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Author:
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Morris-Suzuki, Tessa)
Subjects
artists:
Detmold, Edward J. / Detmold, Maurice
dates:
1900-1959
subjects:
British art / Book illustrations / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Commentaries / Suicide / Mysticism / Nature / Satire / Idealism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The ant-lion, by Edward Julius Detmold. (From Princess Mary’s Gift Book, London 1914).
Attributed works:
10. The Flying Dutchman, by Edward Julius Detmold. Mid-1920s. Monotype, 35 by 50 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
11. Progress, from The Sword and Gold: What I Have Seen, 1933, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1933. Watercolour, 31 by 18 cm. (Private collection).
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12. Civilisation?, from The Sword and Gold: What I Have Seen, 1933, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1933. Oil on paper, 32 by 18 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
13. Like seed like crop, from The Sword and Gold: What I Have Seen, 1933, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1933. Pencil and watercolour, 33 by 18.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Peace, from The Sword and Gold: What I Have Seen, 1933, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1933. Watercolour, 33 by 19 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
3. Orchis Latifolia, by Edward Julius Detmold. (From M. Maeterlinck: Hours of Gladness, London 1912).
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4. Pelopaeus Spirifex, by Edward Julius Detmold. (From Fabre’s Book of Insects, London 1921).
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5. Shere Khan in the jungle, by Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold. (From C.M. Detmold and E.J. Detmold: Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’, London 1903).
Attributed works:
6. The captive, by Edward Julius Detmold. 1923. Etching, 35 by 30 cm. (plate). (Private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Macaws, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1930. (The Sphere, 24th November 1930).
Attributed works:
8. On this dome is a bronze horseman mounted on a horse, from The Story of the Third Calender, by Edward Julius Detmold. (From The Arabian Nights, London 1924).
Attributed works:
9. The seer and the clown, from The Sword and Gold: What I Have Seen, 1933, by Edward Julius Detmold. c.1933. Watercolour, 34 by 18 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered. Jewish Museum, London, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 156-158
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Vishniac, Roman
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Jewish Museum, London, Great Britain / Photographers' Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Jews / Jewish iconography / Cultural history / Religion / World War (1939-1945) / Holocaust (1939-1945) / Ruins / Portraits / Travel / Commissions / Photography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Jewish school children, Mukacevo, by Roman Vishniac. c.1935–38. Gelatin silver print, 24 by 16.5 cm. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. Jewish Museum London).
Attributed works:
23. Skin from Roman Vishniac’s thumb, magnified 280 times, by Roman Vishniac. 1950s–1970s. Photomicrograph. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. Jewish Museum London and The Photographers’ Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
24. Boy standing on a mountain of rubble, Berlin, by Roman Vishniac. 1947. Inkjet print, 30 by 30 cm. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn; International Center of Photography, New York; exh. The Photographers’ Gallery, London).
Book Review
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism. By Whitney Chadwick
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1075-1076
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Reviewer:
Cheale, Matthew (Cheale, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Breton, André / Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
artists:
Carrington, Leonora / Cahun, Claude / Agar, Eileen / Fini, Leonor / Penrose, Valentine / Paalen, Alice / Kahlo, Frida / Lamba, Jacqueline / Moore, Marcel / Miller, Lee
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Documents / Photographs / Paintings
places:
France / Mexico
subjects:
Artists' writings / Correspondence / Biographies / Poetry / Surrealism / Women / Women artists / Gender / Magic / Occultism / Mysticism / Alchemy / Nazism / World War (1939-1945) / Collaborators / Literature
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Jacqueline Lamba and Frida Kalho in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. 1938. Photograph. (Private Collection; © Association Atelier André Breton and ADAGP).
Article
The making of Picasso’s ‘Woman in a long dress’
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 920-927
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Subjects
art literature:
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry / Spies, Werner / Eluard, Paul / Read, Peter / Leiris, Michel / Cocteau, Jean
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Brassaï / González, Julio / Rousseau, Henri / Maar, Dora / Duncan, David Douglas
collectors and dealers:
Loeb, Pierre
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
media:
Sculpture / Plaster / Bronzes / Assemblages / Metalwork / Photographs / Art objects
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / World War (1939-1945) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Identification / Modernism / Neo-classicism / Kouroi / Visual sources / Casts (sculpture) / Studios (work spaces)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Woman in a long dress, by Pablo Picasso. Here dated 1941–42. Bronze, 161.3 by 53.7 by 45.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph W.B. Dewey; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of the artist’s mother, by Pablo Picasso. 1896. Pastel on paper, 49.8 by 39 cm. (Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Bridgeman Images; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Yadwiga, by Henri Rousseau. 1895. Canvas, 160 by 105 cm. (Musée Picasso, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Picasso and his stove, rue des Grands Augustins, by Brassaï. 1939. (Private collection / Photo © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Picasso’s Head of a bull with an arm from Easter Island, by Brassaï. 1943. Gelatin silver print, 17.7 by 24 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
7. Head of a bull, by Pablo Picasso. 1942. Bicycle saddle and handlebars, 33.5 by 43.5 by 19 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
8. ‘L’Aubade’ and ‘Woman in a long dress’ in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins studio, Paris, by Brassaï. 1946. Photograph. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
9. Front steps of La Californie with Picasso and the welder at work, by David Douglas Duncan. 1957. (From D.D. Duncan: Goodbye Picasso, New York 1975, p.65).
Western art unattributed:
2. Female statue, known as the Woman of Auxerre, c.640–630 BC. Limestone, height 75 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing. Jeu de Paume, Paris
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 965-968
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Reviewer:
Constantine, Simon (Constantine, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Lange, Dorothea / White, Clarence Hudson / Dixon, Maynard / Cunningham, Imogen / Van Dyke, Willard Ames / Weston, Edward / Adams, Ansel
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
Photography / Photomechanical processes / Portraits / Style / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Race / Workers / Working Class / African Americans
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 33.3 by 25.5 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Sacramento, California. College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center, by Dorothea Lange. 1942. Digital print, 27.9 by 22.9 cm. (Courtesy U.S. National Archives; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Attributed works:
21. White angel breadline, San Francisco, by Dorothea Lange. 1933. Gelatin silver print, 53.3 by 43.8 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain. The Hepworth Wakefield
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 863-865
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Reviewer:
Matheson, Neil (Matheson, Neil)
Subjects
artists:
Miller, Lee / Nash, Paul / Hillier, Tristram Paul / Hepworth, Barbara / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Nicholson, Ben / Man Ray / Banting, John / Chirico, Giorgio de / Miró, Joan / Tanguy, Yves / Penrose, Roland / Ernst, Max / Magritte, René / Dalí, Salvador / Agar, Eileen / Eluard, Paul / Carrington, Dora / Beaton, Cecil
artists:
Melville, John / Mesens, Edouard Léon Théodore
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs / Paintings / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
The Hepworth, Wakefield, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Wakefield
subjects:
Surrealism / Photography / Fashion / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Modernism / Nudes / Correspondence / Artists' groups and associations / Critical Reception / Influence / Models (people)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Portrait of space, near Siwa, Egypt, by Lee Miller. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 29.2 by 23.3 cm. (© Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex; exh. The Hepworth Wakefield).
Attributed works:
22. A l’heure de l’observatoire – Les amoureux, by Man Ray. 1932–34/1970. Coloured lithograph after oil painting. 68 by 104 cm. (Collection Clo and Marcel Fleiss, Paris; exh. The Hepworth Wakefield).
Article
The Art of Conservation XV. The conservation history of the Ghent Altarpiece
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 754-765
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Author:
Dubois, Hélène (Dubois, Hélène)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedländer, Max J. / Coremans, Paul B. / Schryver, Antoine de / Marijnissen, R.-H. / Heere, Lucas de / Mander, Karel van, I, 1548-1606 / Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868 / Bode, Wilhelm von / Puyvelde, Leo van / Hulin de Loo, Georges / Vanderveken, Jef / Gettens, R. J. / Stout, George L. / Asperen de Boer, J. R. J. van / Spronk, Ron
art literature:
Vaernewijck, Marcus van / Hauser, Aloïs, the younger / Grevenstein, Anne van
artists:
Eyck, Jan van / Eyck, Hubert van / Blondeel, Lancelot / Scorel, Jan van / Coxie, Michiel, I, 1499-1592 / Coxie, Raphael / Bruyn, Jan Baptist de / Heuvel, Anton van den / Schlesinger, Johann / Schinkel, Karl Friedrich / Lagye, Victor / Bouts, Dieric
collectors and dealers:
Nieuwenhuys, L.J. / Solly, Edward
dates:
1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Displays / Radiographs / Infrared photography
museums and institutions:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, Belgium / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany / Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium / International Council of Museums (ICOM)
museums and institutions:
Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, United States
patrons:
Vijd, Joos / Borluut, Elisabeth / Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598
places:
Netherlands / Belgium / Brussels / Ghent / France / Paris / Germany / Berlin
subjects:
Netherlandish painting / Conservation / Restoration (process) / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Provenance / Iconoclasm / Damage to works of art / Stolen works of art / Alterations / Altarpieces / Panel paintings / Polyptychs / Collecting / Patronage / Retables / Feasts / Religious ceremonies / Glazes / Varnish / Pigments / Colour / Commissions / Archives / Style / Council of Trent (1545-1563) / Calvinism / Revolution (France: 1789-1799) / Restitution / Repatriation / Polychromy / Copies / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Nazism / Exhibitions / Curators / Art historians / Conservators / Restorers / Science
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Completed by 1432. Panel, shown open, 375 by 514 cm. Before restora- tion. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
Attributed works:
2. Diagram showing the extent of mid-sixteenth century overpaint on the outside wings of the polyptych. (©KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.4, showing Joos Vijd’s right eye after varnish removal. The pink scumbles around the eyes, which cover the original eyelashes, are typical of the mid-sixteenth-century overpainting campaign. (©KIKIRPA, Brussels).
Attributed works:
4. The adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Completed by 1432. Panel, shown closed, 375 by 257 cm. Photographed after restoration. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing Elisabeth Borluut’s drapery before the removal of varnish and overpaint. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent).
Attributed works:
6. Fig.5 after the removal of overpaint and restoration. (Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent; © lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw).
Attributed works:
7. The Virgin Annunciate and Angel musicians (recto and verso of the same panel), by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Photographs taken in Berlin before the restoration of 1894. Original hinges are present on the left side of the frame of the Virgin’s panel. Metal reinforcements were added to the extremities of the crossbar. Later, wrought metal hinged braces were attached by large screws fitted through the frame and visible on the front of the Angels panel. (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg).
Attributed works:
8. The prophet Micah, detail of Fig.4, shown in the frame designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a hatch covering the inscription beneath the prophet. Photograph, before 1878. (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History, M.J. Friedländer Archive, The Hague).
Attributed works:
9. The Ghent Altarpiece as installed in the Vijd chapel between 1865 and 1920. It comprises Eyckian central panels, Lagye’s fur-clothed Adam and Eve and Coxcie’s copies of the other shutters. Photograph, c.1910–13. (© Stadsarchief, Ghent).
Western art unattributed:
10. Jef Van der Veken in his studio in Brussels. Photograph, before 1929. (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Jef Van der Veken Archive, The Hague).
Western art unattributed:
11. Albert Philipott applies wax to the surface of Eve in order to consolidate the paint layers. Photograph, 1951. (© KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
Western art unattributed:
12. Albert Philipott removes the overpainted clouds around the dove in The Adoration of the Lamb. Photograph, 1951. (© KIK-IRPA, Brussels).
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