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Cover of Chris Evans: Celebrity Biographies
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Ever wondered how Chris Evans rose to stardom? Chris Evans was born in 1981 to an Irish-Italian catholic family in Boston, MA. He was raised in the Boston suburb of Sudbury, MA, where he first began as an actor. The summer after his junior year of high school, he moved to New York City where...
Cover of Schiele
by Patrick Bade
Language: German
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Pornografisch, unsittlich, amoralisch und letztendlich sogar „entartet“ wurde die Kunst des Egon Schiele genannt. Lange Zeit verkannt und verunglimpft, hat der geniale, von Selbstobsession getriebene Künstler dennoch unbeirrt seine künstlerische Suche nach der Essenz der weiblichen Sexualität...
Cover of Klee
by Donald Wigal
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Paul Klee gehört zu den Künstlern, die sich nur schwerlich einer bestimmten kunstgeschichtlichen Bewegung zuordnen lassen. In engem Kontakt mit Wassily Kandinsky und Franz Marc gehörte er wie diese der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter an. Später knüpfte er Verbindungen zum...
Cover of Schiele
by Jeanette Zwingenberger, Esther Selsdon, Ashley Bassie
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Pornografisch, unsittlich, amoralisch und letztendlich sogar „entartet“ wurde die Kunst des Egon Schiele genannt. Lange Zeit verkannt und verunglimpft, hat der geniale, von Selbstobsession getriebene Künstler dennoch unbeirrt seine künstlerische Suche nach der Essenz der weiblichen Sexualität...
Cover of Bakst
by Elisabeth Ingles
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Leon Bakst (1866-1924) besuchte von 1883 bis 1886 die kaiserliche Kunstakademie in St. Petersburg und begann seine Künstlerkarriere als Illustrator für Zeitschriften. Er setzte sein Studium zunächst in Paris an der Académie Julianfort, kehrte aber 1896nach St. Petersburg zurück und erlangte dort...
Cover of Claude Lorrain
by Sergei Daniel
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), einer der talentiertesten Landschaftsmaler seiner Zeit, ist auch unter dem Namen „Claude Gellée“ oder einfach nur „Claude“ bekannt. Den Beinamen „Lorrain“ erhielt er aufgrund der Tatsache, dass er in der französichen Provinz Lothringen (frz. Lorraine) geboren...
Cover of Claude Monet: Band 2
by Nathalia Brodskaïa, Nina Kalitina
Language: German
Release Date: December 31, 2015

Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung. Er war es aus tiefer Überzeugung und blieb es bis an das Ende seines langen Lebens. Er begnügte sich mit einem einzigen Genre, dem der Landschaftsmalerei. Hier aber brachte er es zu einer Vollkommenheit, an die keiner seiner Zeitgenossen...
Cover of Franz Marc
by Franz Marc, Klaus H. Carl
Language: German
Release Date: July 5, 2013

Franz Marc (1880-1916), bedeutender Künstler des deutschen Expressionismus und später von den Nationalsozialisten als entartet gebrandmarkt, war nicht nur ein enger Freund Wassily Kandinskys, sondern auch Mitbegründer des Künstleralmanachs Der Blaue Reiter„. In der Überwindung einer auf die...
Cover of Harrison Ford: Celebrity Biographies
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016

Ever wondered how Harrison Ford rose to stardom? Harrison Ford was born to a Russian Jew mother and an Irish Catholic father in Chicago on July 13, 1942. The eldest of two brothers, Harrison grew up in a liberal household and was allowed to freely explore his interests, whether that be at a...
Cover of Aaron Eckhart: Celebrity Biographies
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016

Ever wondered how Aaron Eckhart rose to stardom?Aaron Eckhart is simply one of the brilliant actors to be found in Hollywood.When talking about Eckhart one would picture an incredibly handsome guy with a small dimple in the middle of his chin.He showed his interests in acting early on by taking...
Cover of Rembrandt's House

Rembrandt's House

Exploring the World of the Great Master

by Anthony Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

No.4 Breestraat, Amsterdam, is an imposing 17th century house, but little different from many big old houses in the city. What makes it exceptional is that for twenty years one of the world's greatest artists lived here - Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the time. This is the story of that house,...
Cover of A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm
by Catriona McAra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning’s writing at the centre...
Cover of Botticelli
by Isabella Alston
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as simply Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence, Italy, probably in or around 1445. Serendipitously winning a high-profile commission from the Florentine court, he was catapulted to notoriety as wealthy patrons, in particular the Medici family,...
Cover of A New Light
by Kevin Cable
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

"A New Light" People, and times were changing and I was too. As a photographer and cinematographer,I was looking at my visual world quite differently now. I'm getting paid to perform my services and I wanted to make sure I always put out a great product. It was also the time of getting married...
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