Germany and Central Europe

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

Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings 1475-1540

By Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 30 – December 31, 2012; Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, October 5, 2013 – January 5, 2014; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, September 19 – December 14, 2014.] Washington DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Ashgate/Lund Humphries Publishing Company 2012. 120 pp, with color illus. ISBN 978-1-84822-122-2

Review published November 2013

During the Renaissance, the imperial city of Augsburg in southern Germany became an important artistic center. Its financial prosperity in banking and trade – as seen in the enormous wealth of the [...] Read More

German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600

By Maryan W. Ainsworth and Joshua P. Waterman

With contributions by Timothy B. Husband and Karen E. Thomas, with Dorothy Mahon, Charlotte Hale, George Bisacca, Silvia A. Centeno and Peter Klein. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013. 376 pp, 300 color, 40 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14897-8

Review published November 2013

Hard on the heels of a major catalogue of German drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum, compiled by Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira (reviewed in this journal April 2013), comes a new catalogue of [...] Read More

Pygmalion in Bavaria. The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

By Christiane Hertel

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011, 270 pp, 89 b&w and 27 color illus. ISBN 978-0-271-03737-0

Review published November 2012

Rococo remains an art historical stepchild, the more so for Bavarian Rococo. Seldom taught even in survey classes, let alone in stand-alone courses, its richly decorated surfaces may fascinate, but [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Germany and Central Europe