Germany and Central Europe

Ljubezen in Nespamet. Minne und Torheit

By Fritz Koreny and Erwin Pokorny

With a foreword by Andrej Smrekar [Cat. Exh., Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Narodna Galerija, Ljubljana]. Vienna: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, 1999. 98 pp, fully illustrated with b&w illus. ISBN 961-6029-33-9

Review published April 2001

In 1999 the Albertina and the National Gallery of Slovenia hosted an exhibition of thirty-one rare fifteenth-century German prints from the Albertina’s collection. Called Ljubezen in Nespamet. Minne [...] Read More

Johann Liss. A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné

By Rüdiger Klessmann

Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1999. 219 pp, 40 col., 158 b&w illus. ISBN 90-70288-86-9

Review published November 2000

The first words in this major new monograph devoted to Johann Liss state the problem: he is, "a painter about whose life almost nothing is known. No documents exist pertaining to his birth and [...] Read More

Copper as Canvas. Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper 1575-1775

By Michael K. Komanecky, et al.

[Cat. Exh.] Phoenix, AZ: The Phoenix Art Museum, distributed by Oxford
University Press, Oxford and New York, 1999. 21 + 346 pp, 200 col. illus., 76 b&w illus., 13 drawings, diagrams and maps. ISBN 0-19-512397-2 (paper), 0-19-512396-4 (cloth)

Review published November 2000

This is the catalogue of an imaginatively conceived and well-researched exhibition. Its lengthy and informative essays, by Michael Komanecky, Edgar Peters Bowron, Clara Bargellini, Isabel Horovits, [...] Read More

Four Volumes Hollstein: The Sandrarts

By various authors

Review published May 2000

John Roger Paas, The Sandrarts. Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, vols. XXXVIII to XLI. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1994-1997. Vol. XXXVIII (Jacob von Sandrart) 251 [...] Read More

Fürtrefflicher Gemähld- und Bilder-Schatz. Die Gemäldesammmlung des Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Pommersfelden

By Rudolf Bys

Edited and published by Katharina Bott. Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissen-schaften, 1997. 158 pp, 250 illus. ISBN 3-932124-16-2

Review published May 2000

Count Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor. [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Germany and Central Europe