Книги видавництва Hatje Cantz

Catalogue on the sensational exhibition featuring about 40 of El Greco’s works The sensational oeuvre of El Greco (1541-1614) was first introduced to a broader German audience in 1910 through Julius Meier-Graefe’s journal, The Spanish ...

Although Emil Nolde is famous for his dramatic ocean views and colorful flower gardens, his love of the fantastical and grotesque has received less attention to date. Yet, it is clear from his autobiography and many letters that they had a significan...

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. In 1941, he left Europe for the United States, where five years later he became a citizen. During the forties and fifties, he was one of the most sought-after fashion photogr...

František Drtikol (1883–1961) is considered to be the first Czech photographer enjoying international fame. Anna Fárová’s legendary exhibit in Prague in 1972 led to the rediscovery of his briefly forgotten work. Th...

While the world evaporates into the digital, the anachronistic Polaroid snapshot dominates media and advertising. The recent sale of the photography collection owned by Polaroid’s inventor Edwin Land to the Viennese photography museum WestLicht marks...

Previously unpublished photographs in an ideal gift format. The most amusing snapshots from the largest collection of private photographs in the world are presented in Funny Pictures, another highlight in our new series of gift books. Selected photo...

Einzige lieferbare Monografie zu Leben und Werk des großen französischen Erneuerers der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt. Das Werk von Georges Braque (1882–1963), dem bedeutenden Wegbereiter der Moderne, ist viel komplexer un...

The inventor of pointillism, presented through an extensive selection of drawings and paintings. Georges Seurat (1859–1891), a man of consistently proper disposition, was called “the notary” by his painter colleagues, and yet he ...

A splendid volume featuring the work of Gustave Courbet, the great reviver of French nineteenth-century art, whose lifelike images continue to fascinate a diverse audience. The life and works of Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) — widely con...

Die Graue Passion gilt als ein Hauptwerk von Hans Holbein d. Ä. (um 1465–1524) und als eine der ungewöhnlichsten Passionsfolgen der altdeutschen Kunst. Schon der Name des zwischen 1494 und 1500 entstandenen Zyklus weist auf die farbliche Gestaltung d...

A splendid book on the motif of the female figure in the oeuvre of the great resuscitator of European painting, Henri Matisse. Throughout his career few other subjects inspired Henri Matisse (1869-1954) with such passion as the female figure in in...

It is not only due to his spectacular jungle paintings that Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), known as “Le Douanier” (the customs officer), ranks among the most popular artists of early modernity. This book commemorates the one-hundredth ...

The spectacular series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948 in Tokyo) are characterized by matchless clarity and presence. His works are always an absolute embodiment of his chosen visual motif, reduced to its essence. This exquisite m...

 1.029 illustrations, 845 in color A large-format, four-color illustrated catalogue raisonné of the paintings of the eccentric Belgian. Like Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch, James Ensor (1860–1949) was the avant-garde painter in northernEurope ...

The provocative art of Jeff Koons (*1955) leaves no one cold. The “king of kitsch” is skilled at manipulating the media, exploding the boundaries of all genres with his appropriations from Pop Art and popular culture, and playing the keyb...