Klaus Albrecht Schroder

*A beautifully illustrated selection of highlights from The Albertina's world-renowned collection of prints, drawings and paintings*Features works from Old Masters as well as celebrated modern artists - from Michelangelo, Rubens and C�zanne to Klimt, Picasso and Warhol*Written from the expert perspective of The Albertina's Director, art historian Klaus Albrecht*Full color illustrations allow each spectacular work to be examined in detailThe largest of the Hapsburg residential palaces, The Albertina in Vienna provides a stunning home to one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world. Named after its founder, passionate art collector Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822), the priceless collection comprises 50,000 drawings and watercolors and some 900,000 prints ranging from the late Gothic period to contemporary art.Here visitors can see world-famous works by da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael as well as D�rer, Rubens, Rembrandt and C�zanne. The modern collection contains a vibrant array of works from a diverse range of artists: from Schiele, Klimt, Picasso and Pollock to Warhol, Katz, Baselitz and Kiefer. An extraordinary treasure trove of visual knowledge, The Albertina has also been gathering photographs since the mid-19th century, and holds around 50,000 plans, sketches and models in its Architecture Collection. This small volume showcases the highlights from this vast collection, as chosen by its Director.Follow @AlbertinaMuseum on Twitter (7350 followers).

Director's Choice

The Albertina

Dieter Buchhart

Antonia Hoerschelmann

In dialogue with Edward Munch--discover the many ways the expressionist painter's work has influenced modern and contemporary artists. While Munch's pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work, many important postwar and contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from several aspects of his oeuvre. This richly illustrated book explores how nine such artists--Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol--engaged with Munch's work at different points in, or throughout, their careers. It features elaborate reproductions of sixty works by Munch juxtaposed with those inspired by him. Readers discover how Baselitz cunningly pays tribute to his artistic hero; how Tracey Emin's practice, like Munch's, is autobiographical, both drawing from their personal torment to create their unnerving works; how Marlene Dumas was drawn to the expressiveness of Munch's portraits; how Louise Bourgeois' works are illustrative of Munch's fixation on fear and isolation; how Francis Bacon modeled "Screaming Pope" after Munch's most renowned painting; and how Peter Doig draws on Munch's radical treatment of pigments and materiality. Essays by leading scholars detail each artist's unique preoccupation with Munch and offer a focused exploration of the ways women artists in particular were inspired by his examinations of loneliness, fear, and trauma.

Klaus Albrecht Schroder

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