Kunstmuseum Stuttgart


	Kunstmuseum Stuttgart		This elaborately illustrated companion volume appeared in conjunction with the opening of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The publication contains a selection of around 200 works. The book offers comprehensive insight into the City of Stuttgart's art collection. Famous for its Otto Dix holdings, matched by no other museum in the world, the Kunstmuseum also boasts outstanding inventories of the works of Adolf Hölzel, Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, Horst Antes, Walter Stöhrer, Dieter Krieg, Joseph Kosuth, Dieter Roth and Wolfgang Laib. Other focuses are German Expressionism, Informel painting and Concrete Art. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Ed. Marion Ackermann Texts: Marion Ackermann, Karsten Müller, Karin Schick, Simone Schimpf, Katharina Henkel, Sabine Gruber, Gerda Ridler German 2005, 294 pp., 23 x 28 cm, 420 ills., 212 in colour, € 15 ISBN 3-7757-9195-3

	Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Architecture		Two decades passed and several competitions were held before the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart received the go-ahead for construction at Kleiner Schlossplatz. The publication's detailed explanations of the urban planning context underscore the necessity for the new museum building. Because of the complexity of the site, a chapter on the competition history was devoted to the struggle to find a suitable architectural design. Apart from an interview with the architects, one focus is a tour of the building. Brigida Gonzalez' enlarged photographs document the museum's metamorphosis. The pictures illustrate operations to install artworks and the exhibits and display rooms shortly before the opening of the museum in March 2005. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Architecture Ed. Marion Ackermann Texts: Wolf Gläser, Katharina Henkel, Gerwin Zohlen German/ English 2005 192 pp., 177 ills., 25 x 20 cm, bound, € 34.90 ISBN 3-88375-934-1

	Otto Dix. Hommage à Martha		Between 1921 and 1933, Otto Dix (1891-1969) painted a series of representational paintings, watercolours, drawings and humorous sketches of Martha, the woman who would later become his wife. Each portrait shows her in a different light: the glamorous, emancipated woman, the lover, the muse and intellectual companion, the matriarch with her family around her. A range of different portraiture techniques convey Dix's changing attitude towards his subject, starting with initial feelings of admiration, developing later into intimacy, and ending in a growing sense of detachment. The titles of his paintings, some highly-charged, others sober and unemotional, reinforce these images. The portraits of Martha not only display the art of Otto Dix in all its multi-faceted glory, they also capture the atmosphere of the 1920s: the metropolitan flair, the clash between old and new attitudes towards gender roles, fashions, music and dance, and aspirations towards artistic and personal freedom. The book and exhibition were produced in association with the Otto Dix Foundation in Vaduz, set up in 1983 by Martha Dix. Otto Dix. Hommage à Martha Edited by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Text by Karin Schick German/English, 2005 128 pages, 91 illustrated, 68 in colour 19.80 x 25.70 cm Cloth with dust jacket Available by mail order € 24.80, 42.00 Swiss francs ISBN 3-7757-1620-3

	Max Bill. Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Designer		Max Bill (1908-1994) viewed the conundrums of everyday design and those of art not as dichotomous in kind. Using this approach, he created a prodigious body of work covering a range of different fields from architecture, sculpture and design to painting, graphic art and typography. The monography provides an overview of more than 250 pieces by Max Bill including early drawings from his time at the Bauhaus school, a large selection of his paintings and sculptures and several of his graphic series. It presents more than a dozen of Bill's architectural projects and design objects such as the Ulm Stool and his classic watch designs, as well as his distinctive advertising and poster designs. Supported by Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland Max Bill. Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Designer Ed. Thomas Buchsteiner, Otto Letze Texts: Marion Ackermann, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Jakob Bill, Max Bill, Gerd Fleischmann, Karl Gerstner, Karin Gimmi, Eugen Gomringer, Arthur Rüegg, Dirk Scheper, Angela Thomas Schmid German 2005, 296 pp., 395 ills., 232 in colour, 23 x 27 cm, Brochure, € 39.80 ISBN 3-7757-1641-6

	Rebecca Horn Mondspiegel. Ortsbezogene Installationen 1982-2005		Moon Mirror focuses on the relationship between a work of art and the architectural history of its setting, an aspect which has always exerted a considerable influence on Rebecca Horn's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre and has been central to the formal composition of her major sculptures and installations. The publication maps her career from the early works of the seventies to her most recent pieces, completed in 2005. In the first version of Meßkasten (1970) and Räume berühren sich in Spiegeln (1974/75), Horn defined the human body as the measure of spatial perception. In 1987, Horn created a monument to the past and evoked the spectres of the Third Reich with her installation Concert in Reverse in the Zwinger tower in Münster. The site has a particularly sensitive place in German history because it was used by the Gestapo for the torture of prisoners. In her Moon Mirror piece, installed in Pollença in 2003, the artist created an invisible yet tangible pillar of energy between a pool of mirrors and a vortex of light high up in the church dome. At the point where the oriental and occidental worlds meet, the moon is captured as a "vehicle of human vision and expression". Viewers gaze into the depths of the mirrors, losing themselves in a seemingly bottomless well and in so doing, are able to survey the heavens anew in the reflection of the void above. (Also available in English, ISBN 3-7757-9187-6) Rebecca Horn Mondspiegel. Ortsbezogene Installationen 1982-2005 Edited by Marion Ackermann, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Hans Werner Holzwarth, Preface by Marion Ackermann, Texts by Richard Cork, Doris von Drahten, Rebecca Horn, Steven Henry Madoff German, 2005 272 pages, 148 illustrated, 120 in colour 21.90 x 27.60 cm Hardback with dust jacket Available by mail order € 49.80, 42.00 Swiss francs ISBN 3-7757-9197-3