London.- This summer, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage an exhibition dedicated to the birth of modern photography, featuring the work of Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi. Each left their homeland…
Josef Albers’ Study for Homage to the Square Brings $262,900 in $1.55+ Million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A prime late period work by Bauhaus master Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Stucco Setting, 1958, brought $262,900 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $1,552,954 Signature® Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, providing the pr…
Josef Albers’ Study for Homage to the Square Brings $262,900 in $1.55+ Million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A prime late period work by Bauhaus master Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Stucco Setting, 1958, brought $262,900 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $1,552,954 Signature® Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, providing the pr…
Selections from Josef Alber’s Formulation: Articulation, 1972 on View at the Snite Museum
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Josef Albers was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, teacher, and theoretician of art. His work at the Bauhaus and later at Black Mountain College and Yale University was influential in both the Color Field and Op Art movements. …
Kunsthaus Lempertz Offers a Cross-Section of the History of Photography at Auction
COLOGNE.- The Kunsthaus Lempertz Photography Auction, with approximately 200 lots, offers a cross-section through the history of the medium: from the early daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints to classical modern, from the ‘fotoform’ group to contempor…
Kunsthaus Lempertz Offers a History of Photography at Auction
COLOGNE, GERMANY – The Kunsthaus Lempertz Photography Auction, with approximately 200 lots, offers a cross-section through the history of the medium: from the early daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints to classical modern, from the ‘fotoform’ group …
Villa Grisebach in Berlin to Offer Modern and Contemporary Photographs for Spring Sale
BERLIN- Villa Grisebach’s spring auctions in Berlin begins, May 26, 2011, with the 190-lot auction of modern and contemporary photography. Two photo albums from a Swiss private collection are auctioned that include, among other photographs, rare i…
Works from the Museum of Prints and Drawings Berlin, on Display at Kunstmuseum Bonn
BONN.- During the Weimar Republic, Verism and the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) were among Germany’s most characteristic art phenomena. These movements no longer responded to the experiences of World War I and the subsequent crisis of societ…
The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moho…
The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moho…