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Germany and Central Europe

Hans Holbein. The Artist in a Changing World

By Jeanne Nuechterlein

London: Reaktion Books, 2020, 280 pp., 70 illus., some in color. ISBN 978-1-78914-211-2.

Review published November 2020

Hans Holbein (c. 1497/98–1543) has generated plenty of scholarship in the form of catalogues of paintings, drawings and prints as well as serious exhibition catalogues and scholarly monographs. But he [...] Read More

Die Gemälde des Spätmittelalters im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Vol. 1: Franken, Parts 1 and 2.

By Daniel Hess, Dagmar Hirschfelder and Katja von Baum, eds.

Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2019, 2 vols., 1,126 pp, richly illustrated. ISBN: 978-3-7954-3398-7.

Review published August 2020

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg possesses around 250 German and Austrian paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Most pictures are by now anonymous masters who are, not [...] Read More

Perfection’s Therapy. An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I

By Mitchell B. Merback

New York: Zone Books, 2017. 357 pp, 91 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-942130-00-0.

Review published August 2019

Mitchell B. Merback’s most recent book, Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, argues that this celebrated and much-discussed engraving incites a therapeutic or healing [...] Read More

Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar

By Andrea Bubenik and Anne Thackray, eds.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller; Brepols, 2016. 242pp, 6 b&w illus., 101 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-42-9.

Review published June 2018

Only the most renowned printmakers ever seem to get closer analysis. But Wenceslaus Hollar, the multinational etcher (1607 Prague-1677 London), has chiefly received exhibition attention only, so this [...] Read More

Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address

By Shira Brisman

Chicago/London: Chicago University Press, 2016, 223 pp, numerous b&w and col. illus. ISBN 978–0–226–35475–0.

Review published October 2017

This intriguing and ambitious book seeks to make a major contribution to the field by proposing the existence and importance of an “epistolary mode of artistic address,” which Dürer “played a large [...] Read More

Aus aller Herren Länder. Die Künstler der “Teutschen Academie” von Joachim von Sandrart

By Suzanne Meurer, Anna Schreurs-Morét, and Lucia Simonato, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 456pp, 200 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55321-4.

Review published September 2017

Until very recently, one of the most neglected of all foundational primary sources in European painting history remained Sandrart's Teutsche Academie (1675; Latin edition 1683), including a reliable [...] Read More

Michael Pacher: Zwischen Zeiten und Räumen

By Lukas Madersbacher

Berlin/ Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2015. 348 pp, 280 color and 25 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-422-07307-4

Review published April 2017

In German art, the question a "Northern Renaissance" and when (or if) it  occurred usually centers around such turn-of-the-epoch figures as Albrecht Dürer and the magic year 1500. Moreover, dominant [...] Read More

Bella Figura: Europäische Kunst in Süddeutschland um 1600

By Renate Eikelmann, ed.

[Cat. exh. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, February 6 – May 25, 2015.] Munich: Hirmer, 2015. 420 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-3-7774-2358-6

Review published April 2017

Bronze sculpture of the late sixteenth century tends to be associated with Italy,  specifically with the work of Giambologna, so an exhibition of bronzes originating mostly from southern Germany [...] Read More

Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

By Jeffrey Chipps Smith, ed.

Farnham, Surrey/Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2014. 226 pp, b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-4724-3587-3

Review published April 2016

Made up of an established core and a changing array of international contributors, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär gathers every three years. Scholars present new research on early modern Germany, and [...] Read More

Georg Pencz. Künstler zu Nürnberg

By Katrin Dyballa

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2014. 484 pp, 320 illus., 91 color. ISBN 978-3-87157-237-1

Review published April 2016

If we consult received wisdom (I used Giulia Bartrum's reliable survey, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, 1995), we find several accepted facts about Georg Pencz (vital statistics given, c. [...] Read More

Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500

By Stefan Roller and Jochen Sander

Cat. exh. Städel Museum and Liebighaus, Frankfurt, November 5, 2014 – February 8, 2015; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 17 – June 14, 2015; in conjunction with the University of Leipzig. Munich: Hirmer 2014. 288 pp, 255 color illus. ISBN 978-3-777-42266-4

Review published April 2016

I always thought that the term "expressive" was a modernist or twentieth-century concept, in which the depiction of figure types and formal elements conjured up a peculiar state of mind or conveyed [...] Read More

Men of Taste. Essays on Art Collecting in East-Central Europe

By Ingrid Ciulisová

Bratislava: VEDA 2014. 174pp, 58 illus, most color. ISBN 978-80-224-1338-1

Review published November 2014

A milestone in art history scholarship was laid down a quarter-century ago with the founding of the Journal of the History of Collections, and incrementally our gaps of knowledge of provenance and [...] Read More

Two New Studies on Dürer

By various authors
Review published April 2014

Stephanie Buck and Stephanie Porras, The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure. Cat. exh. Courtauld Gallery, London, October 17, 2013 – January 12, 2014. London: Courtauld Gallery 2013. 287 pp, fully [...] Read More

Albrecht Dürer. His Art in Context

By Jochen Sander, ed.

[Cat. exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt, October 23, 2013 – February 2, 2104.] Munich: Prestel 2013. 400 pp, 303 color, 72 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7913-5317-3

Review published April 2014

Hard on the heels of the blockbuster Nuremberg exhibition, The Early Dürer, of last year (reviewed in this journal November 2012), Frankfurt now presents its own reassessment with a wider reach. Let [...] Read More

Hans von Aachen in Context

By Lubomir Konecny and Stepán Vácha with Beket Bukovinská, eds., assisted by Markéta Jezková and Eliska Zlatohlávková

Prague: Institute of Art History 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 978-80-86890-42-5

Review published November 2013

The major 2010-11 exhibition, Hans von Aachen (1552-1615): A Court Artist in Europe generated widespread interest at its three venues (Aachen-Prague-Vienna) and occasioned an international conference [...] Read More

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