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Cologne Fine Art & Antiques 2010

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Special Exhibition 2010

Sincerely yours, Max

Fine artists’ letters from the ZADIK archive

ZADIK, the Zentralarchiv des internationalen Kunsthandels, is the only archive worldwide to specialize in collecting and researching documentation and source material on the history of the international art trade. ZADIK exhibitions are a regular feature of the Cologne fine art fairs. These, together with ZADIK’s magazine sediment and its contributions to the art section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, carry highly valuable material about the art world in general and the life and work of artists, gallerists and collectors in particular. They provide rare insight into areas of the art world not usually accessible to the public.

In 2010, Cologne Fine Art & Antiques will host a special exhibition staged by ZADIK titled “Herzlich, Ihr Max” [Sincerely yours, Max] (Max Ernst). The exhibition will showcase a fine cabinet selection of artists’ letters from the ZADIK archive – letters that are both visually distinctive and highly original in content. Distinguished German artists like Ewald Mataré, Georg Meistermann, Emil Schumacher, Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze and Ernst Wilhelm Nay paint an evocative picture of the post-war avant-garde. The letters range from missives embellished with delicate original drawings in vignette format by Max Ernst and Gerhard Richter to fully-fledged artworks by Nam June Paik and Jean Tinguely. The range covers the entire spectrum of creative artistic activity in the post-war period. The letters are full of talk about art, exhibitions, friendships and not infrequently touch on the subject of earnings. One describes dire difficulties and distress (Richard Oelze), another excitement at the prospect of a commission for a new painting (Gerhard Richter). In the mid-1960s, the versatile Diter Rot addressed poetically formulated begging letters to his dealer Rudolf Zwirner, many of them laden with bizarre puns. The body of over 300 Max Ernst letters to his dealers Michael Hertz (Bremen) and Galerie Der Spiegel (Cologne) constitutes the largest group of autograph letters by a single artist preserved in the ZADIK archive. The exhibition’s organizers have picked out the most interesting and unconventional of these letters. Ernst’s letters to Michael Hertz track the evolution of one of his key publications, Das Schnabelpaar, as it goes to press. His letters to Hein and Eva Stünke of Galerie Der Spiegel document his domestic problems following his divorce from his second wife, Marie-Berthe Aurenche. They also detail the progress of his work on the artist’s book Paramythen (1955) and the important portfolio Histoire naturelle II (1965).

A comprehensive and finely produced book with approximately 208 pages and numerous colour plates will be published to mark the exhibition.
Publisher: Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg

FINE ART WALKS 2010

Public guided tours for adults
Highlights of the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques
From 17th - 21st November 2010 at 12:30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. every day
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5

NEW: Tour 2010
Live in style - since 1900
An overview about the history of living and its aesthestics
17th - 20th November 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
(after registration by phone also bookable from 12.00 noon until 4:00 p.m.)
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5

NEW: Une Soirée de Cologne 2010
Special Tour in the evening with little "Surprises".
This event is only on 19th November 2010 starting
at 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 1,5 hours, Fee: € 10 (surprice incl.)

Fine Art Walks for children (aged over 5 years)
Bringing history to life!

20th and 21st November 2010 at 3:00 p.m. and after registration by phone for private groups, kindergardens and schools.
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5 (one parent or guardian free of charge)

Krebber + Schmid GbR international art dialog
Brinkhof 30, D-59368 Werne, Tel: + 49 171 5408064

E-Mail: info@kunstvermittlung.com