Books published by Hatje Cantz

In Paris Calligrammes the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds Ulrike Ottinger links historical archival material with her own art and film works to create a sociogram of the era in which she came of age as an artist. In the grip of political upheavals, Paris of the 1960s attracted artists from all over the world and was a pulsating stream of energy hovering between trauma management and the utopia of Europe. From the Librairie Calligrammes, a meeting place of exiled German intellectuals, to the Cinémathèque française, which sparked her love of film, Ulrike Ottinger charts a city and its utopias. They live on in her collaged landscape of memories in a workshop exhibition complimenting her film Paris Calligrammes (2019).The films by ULRIKE OTTINGER (*1942 Konstanz, Germany) were shown at the most important international festivals and honored at various major museums, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. With her photographs she was represented at the documenta and the Biennale di Venezia.EXHIBITIONHKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, BerlinAugust 23-October 13, 2019

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre contains more than three thousand individual works of art. Over a period of six decades he has created a stylistically diverse and complex body of work, which confirms Richter's rank as the most important artist alive today. The six-volume scholarly catalogue raisonné of all the paintings and sculptures features numerous full-page color reproductions of the works, as well as complete technical information on all of the art and the artist's handwritten notes, as well as provenance, exhibitions, and reference literature. Commentary, quotations, and comparative images of individual catalogue items round out the material.GERHARD RICHTER (*1932, Dresden) is one of the most influential contemporary artists. His oeuvre encompasses over three thousand paintings and sculptures. Richter studied from 1961 to 1964 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was later a professor . Richter lives and works in Cologne. DIETMAR ELGER studied a the University of Hamburg and has held the role of director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006.

Ernst Wilhelm Nay, the catalogue raisonne: the third volume of works by the great postwar abstract artist