Artists - Hatje Cantz

PAUL CEZANNE

Explore Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), one of the most influential pioneers of modern art. Discover his biography, key works, and lasting impact on painting.

ANNI ALBERS

Originally trained as a painter, Anni Albers discovered weaving at the Bauhaus and reshaped textile art through abstraction, material innovation, and modern design.

HILMA AF KLINT

Hilma af Klint's 2019 solo show is the most visited exhibition ever at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: it is the spectacular rediscovery of the pioneer of abstract painting.

ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL

Armin Mueller-Stahl is not only a world-class German actor but also known as a gifted painter, musician, and writer. Hatje Cantz has already published various volumes of his artistic work, including "Die blaue Kuh" (The Blue Cow).

SEAN SCULLY

Sean Scully is considered one of the most important painters of our time, who drove the discussion of abstract painting of the present like no other artist.

NADAV KANDER

Nadav Kander, with his portraits of well-known personalities, is now one of the most recognized representatives of his guild

ROBERT LONGO

Robert Longo uses provocative imagery to scrutinise the consumer culture and media perception of our time and to expose social tensions with hyper-realistic drawings.

HENRI MATISSE

The French painter Henri Matisse was a defining figure in 20th-century painting. He dissolved classical forms to lead them into a new way of thinking about color and form through his revolutionary understanding of color.

GERHARD RICHTER

Gerhard Richter is considered one of the most outstanding artists in modern German art and is recognized worldwide as one of the most important of his generation.

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH

Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald on 5 September 1774, the sixth of ten children. The old Hanseatic city on the Baltic Sea had around five thousand inhabitants at the time and had belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Frederick's youth was characterised by his father's strict Protestant beliefs and strokes of fate: he lost his mother at an early age; in 1787, his younger brother Johann Christoffer drowned during Caspar David's rescue from the icy Greifswald moat.

DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch is the cult director of bizarre, often disturbing films. But the ingenious filmmaker has another passion besides cinema - art

GUSTAV KLIMT

Gustav Klimt held up a transfiguring mirror to society and at the same time, as a member of the Secession, championed the breakthrough of modernism

YOUSSEF NABIL

Numerous artists, but also celebrities from the world of film, music and literature posed for the camera of Youssef Nabil

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

The unshakeable voice of humanity in the art of the 20th century.

ADRIAN GHENIE

Within just a few years, Adrian Ghenie has made it to the forefront of the international art world.

LINA BO BARDI

The great unknown - the power of Lina Bo Bardi's remarkable buildings remains unbroken, even decades later.

MATTEO THUN

Matteo Thun is one of Italy's most renowned architects and a style-defining interior and product designer. A typical representative of the Milan School and co-founder of the Memphis Group.

SIBYLLE BERGEMANN

Sibylle Bergemann's photos tell of the beautiful and the serious, of the bizarre, the distinctive and the obstinate. Casual-looking composition and a reportage-like, almost cinematic character characterise her views of East Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bergemann entered a new phase. Black and white now gave way to colour.

ANSELM KIEFER

Born at the end of the war, Anselm Kiefer has been pursuing the goal of raising awareness since the 1970s, in an intensive examination of German history and an ambiguous treatment of taboo content.

GERMAINE KRULL

Germaine Krull led an unconventional, nomadic life of adventure. Her extraordinary photographs of technical buildings and industrial plants catapulted her to the forefront of the international photo avant-garde, the New Vision movement.

TIM BURTON

He is considered the "master of the fantastic scary trip, the surreal screen spectacle". The films of the American director Tim Burton have cult status, but his visual work is still largely to be discovered.

PAUL GAUGUIN

While Gauguin was unable to find his longed-for paradise in life, he succeeded in putting his ideal vision of an unspoiled world on canvas - with bright colors and elemental forms that revolutionized art.

JOAN JONAS

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video art. In the early 1960s, she developed her first happenings, in which she used the female body naked or dressed as "sculptural material" in space and used mirrors to scan, fragment, and reflect.

JAKOB STRAUB

At the intersection of graphic design, photography and typography, Jakob Straub creates outstandingly beautiful books.