Germany and Central Europe

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

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Germany and Central Europe