New Forms Fritz Winter. Works on Paper 1925-1975		Fritz Winter (1905-1976) is one of the most significant figures in German post-war art. After studying with Oskar Schlemmer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Winter decided around 1930 to devote himself to abstract painting. Over the following decades he created works whose exciting visual forms continually suggest natural structures: the growth patterns of plants, rock formations, microorganisms, and celestial constellations. Winter's variety of themes, experiments with technique, and inventive visual series are particularly evident in his works on paper. This publication features around 250 monotypes, gouaches, oil paintings, and drawings in pencil, brush, chalk, and felt pen, all organized into groups and explained in detail. Winter's is a multifaceted oeuvre of remarkable timeliness waiting to be rediscovered. New Forms Fritz Winter: Works on Paper 1925-1975 Edited by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, foreword by Marion Ackermann, essays by Karsten Müller, Karin Schick, texts by Karsten Müller German/English 2006. 196 pp., 283 ills., 269 in color 23,00 x 30,00 cm softcover € 35.00, CHF 58.00 ISBN 3-7757-1722-6
	Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night		The great world fairs of the nineteenth century served as experimental zones for modern illumination of architecture. At the 1889 fair in Paris, for example, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became a ”lighthouse” at night. However, it was only in the 1920s that a building’s evening façade became a central issue for architects, who sought avant-garde, technical, and aesthetic ways to light up the metropolises of the world. Both European and American architects wanted to create a separation between their work and the electric signs that dominated cities, so they illuminated their skyscrapers with colored floodlights in an attempt to stand out against garish neon signs. Contemporary architects use many of the historical concepts of illumination, and due to technological advances, they are able to implement them in particularly dramatic ways. This publication commences a dialogue among historical buildings and utopias, more recent designs, and paintings and photographs that feature nighttime façades. Scholarly texts shed light on this extraordinarily exciting chapter of architectural history. Exhibition schedule: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, June 9–October 1, 2006 · NAI Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, January 27 – May 6, 2007 Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night Edited by Marion Ackermann, Dietrich Neumann, texts by Marion Ackermann, Hollis Clayson, Jean-Louis Cohen, Julian LaVerdiere, Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen, Dietrich Neumann, Simone Schimpf, Wolf Tegethoff u.a. German/English 2006. 152 pp., 120 ills., 70 in color 24,70 x 30,00 cm hardcover € 39.80, CHF 58.00 ISBN 3-7757-1757-9
	Pictograms - the loneliness of signs		Fire exit signs, arrows, no smoking signs - modern humanity is surrounded by pictograms. Essential elements of a universally understood code, they naturally occupy a central position in any discussion surrounding the role of signs in art. In fact, as early as the beginning of the 20th century artists were already working on the development of an international language which went beyond the written or spoken word. Using some 350 exhibits from Germany and abroad, the exhibition »Pictograms - the loneliness of signs« traces the previously little explored art history of the pictogram right up to the present day. At the end one is faced with the fascinating question: what happens when an artist takes the mundane sign, intended to be read quickly, intuitively and unambiguously, and throws it into the arena of art where everything is open to interpretation? Pictograms - the loneliness of signs Edited by Marion Ackermann, texts by Marion Ackermann, Georges Didi-Huberman, Hadwig Goez, Pirkko Rathgeber, Cara Schweitzer, Daniela Stöppel, Wolf Tegethoff, Theodora Vischer, Ulrich Wilmes, Tanja Zimmermann. German/English 2006. 380 pp., 21,40 x 25,50 cm paperback € 34.50 ISBN 978-3422066748