Vox Angelica
As a refugee from Nazi persecution, Max Ernst brought surrealism to America. European and American modernism joined forces in the artistic melting pot of New York. Werner Spies is the first to ...
moreWerner Spies
Werner Spies was born in 1937. He was director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, lectured at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, and became known to a wide audience with his articles in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Hanser published his book Duchamp starb in seinem Badezimmer an einem Lachanfall. Porträts in 2005.
My Fortunate Life
At the tail-end of the fifties, a young man from the Swabian provinces sets out for Paris. He has studied art history and put in some time as a journalist, but it is his insatiable appetite for ...
moreFrom Frottage to Photo Painting
Few have written more extensively and comprehensively about modern art than Werner Spies. The spontaneous enthusiasm engendered by a particular work of art resonates in his words and is directly ...
moreDuchamp died laughing in his Bathroom
Werner Spies is more than an art historian – he is a passionate friend of the arts. As a scientist, curator and journalist, he has made enormous contributions to the breakthrough of classical ...
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