Johannes Grutzke. Despite the numerous awards he has received and his presence in important collections such as the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Johannes Grutzke (* 1937) is something of an insider tip who is in the process of being discovered by the wider public. He has attracted widespread attention with the first comprehensive overview of his pictorial and literary performance work at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg."

Paul Gauguin. Paul Gauguin gave up his promising career at the bank in 1883, deciding that from now onwards I will paint every day. The co-founder of Synthetism and trailblazer of Expressionism turned his back on the world of the bourgeoisie, left his wife and children, and departed for the South Seas in 1891, having financed the journey by selling 30 paintings. His thoughts on art, his existential worries, his discovery of color, and his search for paradise are brought back to life in this volume through excerpts from letters and quotations. Complemented by approximately 40 color...

Paul Klee. The Bauhaus in Weimar was just celebrating the first anniversary of its foundation when Walter Gropius sent a telegram to Paul Klee in 1920, asking him to join them a master: a cordial invitation to become a teacher at the Bauhaus. This year was of particular importance in the life and work of Paul Klee. His first great retrospective, organized by the Munich-based gallery owner Hans Goltz, opened in May. A total of 362 works executed between 1903 and 1920 was exhibited. The Paul Klee volume in the Junge Kunst series, one of the first monographs about him, was published shortly...

August Macke. In 1922 the art historian Walter Cohen wrote about August Macke in a Junge Kunst volume that Macke was the Benjamin of the Blauer Reiter circle, and that he was particularly popular because of his genuinely youthful character. At the age of 23 August Macke had met Franz Marc in 1910, and through him had become acquainted with the artists group Der Blaue Reiter. Following joint exhibitions in 1911 and 1912 Macke focused his attention on his own pictorial language. The watercolors that he painted during the legendary trip to Tunis with Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet were of...

Paula Modersohn-Becker. A few weeks after the death of Paula Modersohn-Becker, her artist-friends sorted through her extensive estate. They were surprised and overwhelmed as they gradually discovered that the painter who had lived in their midst until her untimely death had been an exceptional artist. Paula Modersohn-Becker, who received very little recognition during her lifetime, is now considered to have been a trailblazer of Expressionism, whose life and work reflect the beginnings of the century of the avant-garde.

Max Pechstein. Max Pechstein, who was one of the most notable German Expressionist artists and a central figure in the artists group Brucke, was already a successful painter and graphic artist during his lifetime. Franz Marc exclaimed that he was the little Napoleon of Berlin s artist community for his role as a trailblazer of the rebellious New Secession in the early twentieth century. Pechstein s greatest artistic achievements, his life course, and rare documents from the family archive are brought together in this bibliophilic volume to form a new highlight in the series."