Author: Prange, V. Peter (ed.); Andrew Robison; and Hinrich Sieveking
Title: German Master Drawings: From the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580 - 1900
Description: Washington, DC / London, National Gallery of Art / Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering; color pictorial dj; [xii] 332 pp.; 120 color and bw plates with additional illustrations. Large and heavy. From the dust jacket: This stunning catalogue of 120 German drawings ranging in date from 1580 to 1900 celebrates a major acquisition and an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. This unique survey of drawings showcases rare and evocative examples by, among others, Hans von Aachen, Johann Rottenhammer, and Adam Elsheimer; studies for ceiling frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam, Matthaus Gunther, and Johann Baptist Enderle; Augsburg designs for rococo prints by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Johann Esaias Nilson, and Gottfried Eichler; exquisite landscape watercolors by Johann Georg von Dillis and Caspar David Friedrich; sensitive portraits by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Joseph von Fuhrich; architectural watercolors by Balthasar Neumann, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Rudolf von Alt; and realist drawings by Adolph Menzel, Hans Thoma, and Max Liebermann. Contents as follows: German drawings in America and the Wolfgang Ratjen collection / Andrew Robison -- Wolfgang Ratjen and European collecting of German drawings / Hinrich Sieveking -- Catalogue. NF/NF .

Keywords: American Art ; Ratjen, Wolfgand Collection ; ; Collections - European Art


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