Klasse Gesellschaft - Hatje Cantz

A page from a German exhibition catalog, split into two columns. The left column displays the logos of sponsors and media partners, such as the Hubertus Wald Stiftung and NDR Kultur. The right column presents the table of contents, organized into sections like Essays, Katalog, and Anhang, with page numbers, titles, and authors.

A two-page spread from a book or catalog with German text arranged in two columns per page on a white background. The left page features the large, light grey title Klasse Gesellschaft. The right page is numbered 7 at the top and concludes with the name Alexander Klar and the title Direktor at the bottom.

A two-page spread from a German book juxtaposing a modern photograph with a classical painting. On the left, a young woman in a white dress and light-up sneakers stands on a cobblestone street at night, her face illuminated by her smartphone. Next to her is a detail from a painting of a woman in historical attire, similarly absorbed in reading a letter. The right page contains a German article titled, Snapshots – Views of Society Yesterday and Today.

A two-page spread from an art publication in German, featuring two columns of text and five images. The images are a mix of classical paintings showing interior and religious scenes, and contemporary photographs, one of a man in a white gallery and another of a woman walking outdoors near a statue.

An academic page in German about 17th-century art, formatted in two columns. The text is interspersed with five reproductions of paintings depicting peasant life. The scenes include men drinking and smoking in a tavern and larger groups gathered outdoors near rustic buildings and in rural landscapes.

A diptych on a white page. The left image shows a person in blue swim trunks lying face down on a towel on green grass, with red marks imprinted on their back. The right image shows the exterior of a pale yellow building with a single, empty parking space outlined in yellow on the asphalt.

A two-photo layout from a book. The photo on the left shows a utility cart overloaded with bags and personal belongings parked on a sidewalk next to the stone steps of a building. The photo on the right shows a person bundled in blankets, sitting on the pavement in front of a modern glass storefront, with a similar cart piled high with their possessions next to them.

A magazine spread shows a photo on the left of an artist with glasses and black clothing standing in front of a large wall covered in a bold, black-and-white abstract mural. On the blue floor are several buckets of paint and brushes. The page on the right has the title I'll Be Your Mirror above a block of German text.

A side-by-side display of two contrasting graphic art pieces. On the left, a turquoise canvas shows the text FOR EVER YOURS in a playful, hand-drawn blue outline. On the right, a black canvas features the phrase I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR in bold, chunky white letters with a jagged black outline, set at a slight angle.

A side-by-side comparison of two pop art style paintings. The artwork on the left, labeled Kat. 70, features the phrase MUST BE ANOTHER ONE in white bubble letters over a pink and orange gradient. The artwork on the right, labeled Kat. 71, displays the fragmented phrase J HA A LOVER in a high-contrast, red and white, stencil-like composition.

A page from an art book featuring the 17th-century Dutch painting, A Woman and a Man in a Courtyard by Pieter de Hooch. The image displays a large close-up on the left of a man and a woman drinking at a table, and the complete painting on the right, which shows the full courtyard scene with a brick house and other figures in the background.

A page from a book, featuring German text on the left and a painting by Jacob Duck on the right. The painting is a Dutch Golden Age interior scene showing a woman in a red top and white cap preparing food at a table in a rustic kitchen. In the background, another woman sits with a child, and in the foreground, a dog and cat rest on the tiled floor. The scene is framed by a dark stone archway.

A collage of five detailed oil paintings in the 17th-century Flemish or Dutch style, depicting various scenes of peasant life in dimly lit taverns. The images show people drinking, smoking long clay pipes, singing boisterously, and sleeping or feeling unwell from overindulgence, capturing moments of both revelry and its consequences.

A two-page spread from an art history book written in German. The pages feature columns of black text discussing various themes, illustrated with small, inset color images of classical European paintings. The text is divided into sections with bold headings like Geographie, Hanf und Tabak, Interieurszenen, and Kartenspiel.

Klasse Gesellschaft

Alltag im Blick niederländischer Meister. Mit Lars Eidinger und Stefan Marx

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Edited by: Dr. Sandra Pisot für die Hamburger Kunsthalle

Graphic Design: Margarethe Hausstätter

Texts by: Christina Kuhli, Justus Lange, Sandra Pisot, Annemarie Stefes, Jasper Warzecha

German

December 2021, 368 Pages, 250 Photos

Hardcover

248mm x 288mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5036-3

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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| The Timeless Presence of the Ordinary

One feature of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is its focus on daily life. It was not uncommon for artistic beauty to find itself challenged by the claim to aesthetic truths. What was once a novelty in Netherlandish art, however, has lost none of its charisma for today's viewers. This illustrated volume offers evidence of this in a fascinating dialogue between the historic masters of genre painting and the shooting stars of contemporary art. Works by Johannes Vermeers, Pieter de Hoochs, and other painters meet Stefan Marx's contemporary typefaces and Lars Eidinger's photographs. This unique synopsis not only reveals historic distinctions but the surprising similarities in themes and pictorial inventiveness are captivating.

Previously published by Hatje Cantz:
Lars Eidinger: Autistic Disco(2020)
Stefan Marx: Schriftbilder(2020)
Stefan Marx: Notes(2019)

LARS EIDINGER (*1976) is a versatile artist. He can be seen in numerous TV and film productions, as a ensemble member of the Berlin Schaubühne and as the DJ. With his precise eye for the contradictions and poetry of everyday life, he is also a sought-after photo and video artist.

STEFAN MARX (*1979) is an artist. He processes his precise observations of his environment in apt, mostly humorous, poetic, but also thought-provoking typefaces and figurative works. He has had numerous international exhibitions, including in Paris, New York and Tokyo. He self-publishes artist books and makes record covers for various labels. Marx founded the T-shirt label Lousy Livin in 1995. Since 2017 he has had a cooperation with KPM Berlin; in August 2019 he drew a daily column in The New York Times.

SANDRA PISOT (*1974) studied art history, classical archeology, as well as modern and contemporary history at the universities of Augsburg, Parma, and Stuttgart; after holding positions at the Bavarian Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, she has been head of the Old Masters collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 2014.

EXHIBITION
Hamburger Kunsthalle
November 26, 2021-April 24, 2022