Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His latest book, Manet malt Monet: Ein Sommer in Argenteuil (Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil), has just been published. David Dollenmayer is Emeritus Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is currently working on a translation of Martin Walser’s novel A Gushing Fountain. (February 2013)
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The Genius of the Other Daumier
February 21, 2013
“Monsieur Daumier, Ihre Serie Ist Reizvoll!” Die Stiftung Kames [“Monsieur Daumier, Your Series Is Delightful!” The Kames Collection] an exhibition at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, December 6, 2012–February 17, 2013
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The Continual Homecoming
December 6, 2012
Camille Corot: Natur und Traum [Camille Corot: Nature and Dream]
an exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 29, 2012–January 6, 2013
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Dürer and Renoir
August 16, 2012
Der frühe Dürer [The Early Dürer]
an exhibition at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24–September 2, 2012
Renoir. Zwischen Bohème und Bourgeoisie: Die frühen Jahre [Renoir. Between Bohemia and the Bourgeoisie: The Early Years]
an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, April 1–August 12, 2012
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The Queen of Cathedrals
March 22, 2012
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Germany: When Faces Defied Death
November 24, 2011
Dürer—Cranach—Holbein: Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500 [Dürer—Cranach—Holbein: The Discovery of Man: German Portraiture around 1500]
an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, May 31–September 4, 2011, and the Kunsthalle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation, Munich, September 16, 2011–January 15, 2012
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The Naumburg Masters
September 29, 2011
Der Naumburger Meister: Bildhauer und Architekt im Europa der Kathedralen [The Naumburg Master: Sculptor and Architect in the Europe of Cathedrals] an exhibition at the Schlösschen am Markt, the cathedral, and other locations in Naumburg, Germany, June 29–November 2, 2011
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The Master Returns: Konrad Witz in Basel
July 14, 2011
Konrad Witz
an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, March 6–July 3, 2011
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A Phallic Mandolin?
July 14, 2011
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The Quiet Genius
April 28, 2011
L’Armoire secrète: Eine Leserin im Kontext (The Secret Cabinet: A Reader in Context) an exhibition at the Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland, February 4–May 15, 2011.
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The Gigantic Democratic Pose
February 10, 2011
Goldenes Zeitalter: Holländische Gruppenporträts aus dem Amsterdams Historisch Museum (A Golden Age: Dutch Group Portraits from the Amsterdam Historical Museum) an exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 3, 2010–February 27, 2011.
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Velázquez in England
December 23, 2010
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The Messerschmidt Explosions
December 9, 2010
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It’s All in the Head
October 28, 2010
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736–1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, September 16, 2010–January 10, 2011; and the Musée du Louvre, Paris, January 26–April 25, 2011
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The Painter’s Painter: Velázquez After 350 Years
September 30, 2010
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The Best Faces of the Enlightenment
April 8, 2010
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Die Sinnliche Skulptur (Sensuous Sculpture)
an exhibition at the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt, October 29, 2009– February 28, 2010; and at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, March 16–June 27, 2010
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Vindicating del Sarto
January 14, 2010
Divinely Painted—Andrea del Sarto: The Holy Family in Munich and Paris an exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, October 1, 2009–January 6, 2010
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The Artist Historian
June 28, 2007
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
by Meyer Schapiro, edited and with an introduction by Linda Seidel
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The Novelist in the Gallery
June 22, 2006
Still Looking: Essays on American Art
by John Updike
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‘Nuns As Artists’
June 27, 2002
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Images Behind the Wall
April 25, 2002
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent
by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
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The Art of the Cool
April 13, 2000
Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man
by Derek Wilson
Hans Holbein
by Oskar Bätschmann, by Pascal Griener
Holbein’s Ambassadors Press)
by Susan Foister, by Ashok Roy, by Martin Wyld
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The Riddle of the French Renaissance
October 9, 1997
L’Art de la Renaissance en France: L’invention du classicisme by Henri Zerner
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German Art: The Return of the Repressed
March 21, 1996
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner
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The Great Outsider
February 2, 1995
Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers, Volume IV by Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque Art (Volume I)
Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume II)
Late Antique, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Art (Volume III)
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The Nazis’ Theater of Seduction
April 21, 1994
‘Degenerate Art’: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al
The Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam
Artists Under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution by Michèle C. Cone
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Un-German Activities
April 7, 1994
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al.
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Beat the Devil
September 26, 1991
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Mysteries of a Masterpiece
May 30, 1991
The Isenheim Altarpiece: God’s Medicine and the Painter’s Vision by Andrée Hayum
The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald’s Altarpiece I/University of California Press by Ruth Mellinkoff
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Rescuing the Past
March 3, 1988
Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography by E.H. Gombrich
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Miraculous Mosaics
June 26, 1986
The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice Vol. I, The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Vol. II, The Thirteenth Century plates (plates in two volumes) by Otto Demus, with contributions from Rudolf M. Kloos, by Kurt Weitzmann
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Mod Gothic
November 8, 1984
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean Bony
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Messerschmidt's Mad Faces
September 29, 2010
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) is one of those elusive eighteenth-century figures who confront us with the nocturnal side of the enlightenment. In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was not only a madman but also a mad artist.