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Another new release to start the new year with: the beautiful monograph of O&O Baukunst, presenting more than a decade (...
10/01/2026

Another new release to start the new year with: the beautiful monograph of O&O Baukunst, presenting more than a decade (2012-2024) of s achievements.

The firm has significantly shaped Germany’s landscape, completing major administrative buildings, delivering sustainable infrastructure projects, and making a notable impact in the cultural and residential sectors. These projects underscore the intricate nature of contemporary construction, highlighting the challenge of integrating sustainability, CO2 certification, technical demands, and design excellence. The book also traces the evolution of O&O Baukunst, founded by artist-architect brothers Manfred and Laurids Ortner, and now led by architects Roland Duda, Florian Matzker, and Markus Penell from their offices in Berlin and Vienna.

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📚 O&O Baukunst. 2012-2024
Edited by: O&O Baukunst
Graphic Design: Heimann & Schwantes
Texts by: O&O Baukunst
Foreword by: Patrizia Grzonka

(English&German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6135-2
(EPUB) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6144-4
(Ebook) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6145-1

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We wish you a happy new year, one sweeter than honey! These days many of us write down wishes and thoughts to make them ...
01/01/2026

We wish you a happy new year, one sweeter than honey! These days many of us write down wishes and thoughts to make them come true. Language and words can also be an important part of art and painting.

The Written Art Collection is dedicated to artistic positions that combine language, writing and image. Starting with the Art Informel of the 1950s and gestural abstraction, the more than 100 works on display demonstrate the continuity of the significance of written art across generations and cultures: Artists invent imaginative alphabets and sign languages, write poems, quote from literature, translate thoughts and conversations into spray-painted, graphic, gestural or embroidered messages. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at in Munich which is still running until April 12th and explores the phenomenon of writing and images with contributions on the history of written art, its political potential and current perspectives on calligraphy and typography.

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📚 Sweeter Than Honey
Edited by: Madeleine Freund, Oliver Kase
Texts by: Madeleine Freund, Oliver Kase, Thomas Kellein

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6127-7
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6128-4

Today, 75 years ago, Max Beckmann died. In our new publication “Legende und Realität. Max Beckmann in der Zeit des Natio...
27/12/2025

Today, 75 years ago, Max Beckmann died. In our new publication “Legende und Realität. Max Beckmann in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus” we highlight his life during the N**i regime.

Max Beckmann is considered one of the best-researched artists of classical modernism. Since his death in 1950, more than 4,500 publications have appeared on Beckmann. The period of National Socialism, during which he was defamed as a ‘degenerate artist’, and his emigration are caesuras in his biography. Surprisingly, however, Beckmann’s life and work in the years 1933-45 have hardly been systematically analysed on a source-critical basis. The symposium attempted to close this research gap. The conference proceedings bring together the multi-layered contributions to the symposium ‘Legende und Realität. Max Beckmann in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus’, which was organised by Kaldewei Kulturstiftung and the Max Beckmann Archive of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich in May 2024.

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1: Max Beckmann, Im Artistenwagen, 1940, © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
2: Postkarte der Ausstellung Entartete Kunst, 1937, Hofgartenarkaden, München, Der Strand von Max Beckmann neben Werken anderer Künstler, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, © Max Beckmann Archiv

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📚 Legende und Realität. Max Beckmann in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Edited by: Oliver Kase, Dr. Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy
Texts by: Felix Billeter, Barbara C. Buenger, Jana Diermann, Christina Feilchenfeldt, Siegfried Gohr, Andrea Hansert, Florian Keisinger, Anabelle Kienle Ponka, Alexander Klar, Dr. Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Benjamin Lahusen, Marianne von Manstein, Nina Peter, Dr. Olaf Peters, Hans Peterse, Lynette Roth, Nina Simone Schepkowski, Iris Schmeisser, Uwe M. Schneede, Dorothea Schöne, Gesa Vietzen, Lucy Wasensteiner, Christiane Zeiller, Christoph Zuschlag

(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6028-7

24/12/2025

Nicola von Velsen and the whole Hatje Cantz team wish you a merry Christmas and peaceful days with your loved ones, books and trees!

Fred Herzog in top form. His images from the heyday of Kodachrome photography are legendary: street shots of the 1950s a...
23/12/2025

Fred Herzog in top form. His images from the heyday of Kodachrome photography are legendary: street shots of the 1950s and 1960s bathed in warm red-orange tones, precise observations of people and their movements in the city. Often poetic, sometimes witty, always from a respectful distance, yet with an intimate atmosphere. Herzog, who lived in Vancouver from 1953, created a colorful monument to the city. He also traveled to the United States, Barbados, Curaçao, Guatemala, and Mexico, always with his Leica in his luggage. At a time when professional photography relied almost exclusively on black and white, Herzog’s position is something special. These photographs were selected by Andy Sylvester, Special Trustee of the Estate of Fred Herzog in conjunction with Equinox Gallery, and continue his important legacy.

Fred Herzog (1930-2019), who grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, immigrated to Vancover, Canada, in 1953, where he initially worked as a medical photographer. He later taught at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. He has had major solo exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Paris, Toronto, and Vancover. Hatje Cantz recently published Modern Color (2017) and Black and White (2022).

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📚 Fred Herzog. A Color Legacy
Edited by: Hannah Reinhart, Andy Sylvester, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Fred Herzog
Graphic Design: Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6103-1

23/12/2025

Fred Herzog was a pioneer of colour photography at a time when the medium was largely dismissed as unsuitable for serious artistic work.

While many photographers remained committed to black-and-white, Herzog quietly embraced colour to document everyday street life, recognizing its ability to convey atmosphere, social detail, and the visual rhythms of the city.

Working with early Kodachrome film—technically demanding and slow to gain institutional acceptance—he photographed storefronts, signage, pedestrians, and urban spaces with remarkable restraint and clarity. His images revealed how colour functioned not as decoration, but as an essential descriptive and narrative element.

Crucially, it is only with recent advances in archival digital scanning and pigment printing that Herzog’s photographs can now be printed to faithfully reflect the distinctive Kodachrome colours he originally captured—something that was not technically possible during much of his career.

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📚 Fred Herzog. A Color Legacy
Edited by: Hannah Reinhart, Andy Sylvester, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Fred Herzog
Graphic Design: Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6103-1

Henri Matisse is one of the most celebrated artists of Modernism. His groundbreaking work had a significant influence on...
22/12/2025

Henri Matisse is one of the most celebrated artists of Modernism. His groundbreaking work had a significant influence on his contemporaries and many subsequent artists to this day. The retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler spans all of the artist’s creative periods. Beginning with the paintings from around 1900, the show advances through the revolutionary Fauvist paintings, the experimental works of the 1910s, the sensual paintings from the Nice period and the 1930s, and culminates in the legendary cut-outs of his late period. Drawing on Charles Baudelaire’s poem Invitation to the Voyage from 1857, the exhibition and catalogue are conceived as a journey through Matisse’s work and life.

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Henri Matisse zählt zu den berühmtesten Künstlern der Moderne. Sein bahnbrechendes Werk hat seine Zeit und viele spätere Künstlergenerationen bis heute wesentlich geprägt. Die Retrospektive in der Fondation Beyeler umspannt sämtliche Schaffensphasen des Künstlers. Sie setzt mit den um 1900 entstandenen Bildern ein, führt über die revolutionären Gemälde des Fauvismus und die experimentellen Werke der 1910er-Jahre hin zu den sinnlichen Gemälden der Nizza-Periode und der 1930er-Jahre und gipfelt schließlich in den legendären Scherenschnitten des Spätwerks. Charles Baudelaires Gedicht Einladung zur Reise von 1857 folgend, sind Ausstellung und Katalog als eine Reise durch das Schaffen und Leben von Matisse konzipiert.

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📚 Matisse. Invitation to the Voyage
Edited by: Raphaël Bouvier

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5780-5
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5779-9

22/12/2025

Painted in Matisse’s later years, Nu bleu aux bas verts presents a boldly distorted n**e whose deep blue skin defies realism and whose green stockings act as a deliberate color counterweight. The figure’s twisted, compressed pose is intentionally awkward, reflecting Matisse’s interest in rhythmic movement rather than classical beauty. Instead of modeling the body with light and shadow, he relies on strong outlines to structure and contain the color, giving the figure an effect reminiscent of stained glass.
The work reflects Matisse’s lifelong engagement with the n**e, a subject he explored for decades. In this late painting, however, the n**e is no longer primarily sensual; it becomes a vehicle for pure form, color, and balance. Though painted, the body appears almost cut from flat planes of color, anticipating the paper cut-outs that would soon define his final years. At the time, these blue n**es were radical even for longtime admirers, surprising collectors and critics and demonstrating that Matisse continued to push artistic boundaries well into his eighties.
While Henri Matisse was a founding figure of Fauvism, this work belongs to his late period. It retains Fauvist principles—most notably the expressive, non-naturalistic use of color—but abandons Fauvism’s energetic brushwork and spatial depth. Instead, Matisse embraces radical simplification and flatness, pursuing harmony, rhythm, and purity of form as the ultimate goals of his art.

The retrospective catalogue: “Matisse. Invitation to the Voyage”, published with in 2024 guides you through the artist’s entire oeuvre, starting with his early paintings in 1900, via his revolutionary fauvism art and experimental works of the 1910th, his sensitive paintings of the 1930th to his late cut style works.

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Henri Matisse: Nu bleu aux bas verts, 1952, Gouache auf Papier, 258 x 167 cm, ©Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

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📚 Matisse. Invitation to the Voyage
Edited by: Raphaël Bouvier

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5780-5
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5779-9

In 2019, Stefan Marx began his series of monotypes. In collaboration with Berlin-based screen printer Björn Wiede, he de...
21/12/2025

In 2019, Stefan Marx began his series of monotypes. In collaboration with Berlin-based screen printer Björn Wiede, he developed his own working method: Three individual images are created in three steps―one positive, one negative and the „ghost.“ What initially fascinated him about this new approach was the bold application of paint and the intensity of the pigments. During the application of the paint, the surface of the picture itself is not touched— instead the image results from the manipulations on the silkscreen itself. Many of these Monotypes are typefaces― Marx’s signature wry sayings and quotations―but there are also figurative motifs, including animal drawings and other symbols from his pictorial inventory. 

This book follows on from the volume Schriftbilder / Type Works from 2020. Again, Marx has developed this book as an artists‘ book, creating a fascinating interleaving between the final works and the design sketches from his notebooks.

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2019 begann Stefan Marx mit seiner Serie von Monotypien. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Berliner Siebdrucker Björn Wiede entwickelte er seine eigene Arbeitsweise: In drei Arbeitsgängen entstehen drei Einzelbilder - ein positives, ein negatives und ein »Geisterbild«, der ghost. An diesem neuen Ansatz faszinierten ihn zunächst der fette Farbauftrag und die Intensität der Pigmente. Beim Farbauftrag wird die Bildoberfläche selbst nicht berührt - die Bildfindungen ergeben sich über die Bearbeitung des Drucksiebs. Ein großer Teil dieser Monotypien sind Schriftbilder, doch es gibt ebenso figürliche Bildmotive, darunter Tierzeichnungen und andere Zeichen aus dem Motivinventar von Stefan Marx.

Dieses Buch schließt an den Band Schriftbilder an: Auch Monotypien hat Stefan Marx als Künstlerbuch entwickelt und arbeitet mit einer faszinierenden Verschränkung zwischen den Abbildungen der Werke und den Entwurfskizzen aus seinen Notizbüchern.

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📚 Stefan Marx. Monotypien / Monotypes.

Edited by: Stefan Marx
(German & English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5568-9

21/12/2025

Zum vierten Advent verlosen wir ein letztes Mal mit unserem Partner .
Diesmal könnt ihr zwei der größten Persönlichkeiten der Kunst- und Musikszene der letzten 6, 7 Dekaden näher kommen: Auf euch warten 100 bisher unveröffentlichte Zeichnungen von Bob Dylan in Hoffmann und Campes “Point Blank” sowie unser Katalog zu der Erfolgsausstellung von Yoko Ono “Music of the Mind”.

Um an der Verlosung teilzunehmen, schreibt euer Lieblingszitat von oder Geschichte über Yoko Ono oder Bob Dylan, folgt uns und verlinkt eine*n Freund*in.

Das Gewinnspiel endet am 22. Dezember 2025 um 23:59 Uhr. Dieses Gewinnspiel steht in keiner Verbindung zu Instagram. Der/ die Gewinner*in wird nach dem Zufallsprinzip ausgewählt und ab dem 23. Dezember 2025 per Direktnachricht benachrichtigt.

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Due to logistical reasons, participating in our advent giveaway draws is only possible within Germany and Austria.

However, you can purchase our books worldwide of course!

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Peter Langer has established a distinctive approach to fashion still life photography through his work for German Zeit M...
20/12/2025

Peter Langer has established a distinctive approach to fashion still life photography through his work for German Zeit Magazine’s weekly style page. By blending classic elements with modern and avant-garde techniques, he has forged a new visual language in editorial still life. This book compiles approximately 230 of his most compelling works, selected from 884 images created over 17 years.

Peter Langer is an award-winning photographer recognized with the German Lead Award for Architecture and Still Life Photography in 2009, 2010, and 2012. A former artistic gymnast and early adopter of online photo publishing, Langer’s still life work was featured weekly in German Zeit Magazine’s style column from 2008 to 2024. He collaborates with leading editorial lifestyle and fashion publications such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His commercial clients include prestigious brands like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Cartier, Dior, among others. Langer has published two books: On Line (Gestalten, 2009) and Volume One (Nightworks, 2011).

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📚 Peter Langer. Thursdays

Artist: Peter Langer
Designed by: Studio Marek Polewski
Edited by: Nadine Barth

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6119-2

20/12/2025

Today we present to you excerpts from “Katharina Grosse. In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz”. Over a period of two years, Katharina Grosse and author Klaus Dermutz met in the artist’s Berlin studio to conduct a series of very concentrated, lengthy conversations discussing matters of colour, painting, the haptic image, the border, reversal, repetition without origin, interruption, the visible and the invisible, and time.

“What influence does nature have on your artistic work?

My way of working has a lot to do with the weather. For example, when it’s humid and not so warm, the colors dry differently, mix with each other in a specific way. I’ve noticed how colors can be enveloped in colors, there are reds that can be painted over by a shade of blue and remain active in the blue but are no longer recognizable as red. There is a form 231of wrapping a color in another color, this can be done with three or four colors in a row. The colors have to be damp for that, after that I usually can’t work anymore, there’s too much running, the colors have to dry first. [...] Speed plays a very big role in this, otherwise I can’t pull off the sequence very well, it has to happen incredibly quickly and almost unstrategically.”

Find other excerpts from the conversations with Katharina Grosse and other great talks with artists on our website in the interview section (link in bio)!

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📚 Katharina Grosse. In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz.

Designed by: Neil Holt
Contributions by: Katharina Grosse
Edited by: Klaus Dermutz
(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-5948-9
(German) ISBN:978-3-7757-5947-2

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