Hirmer Publishers

01/08/2025

Art and activism: the subversive ceramic sculptures of Linda Lighton.

For fifty years, American artist has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. Her work uses wit and seduction as conceptual weaponry to mine the relationship between s*x, power, and politics.

LINDA LIGHTON: LOVE AND WAR is a richly illustrated monograph that gives a comprehensive overview of Linda Lighton’s pioneering career. The book delves into the ways that her highly original and often rebellious work pushes the boundaries of ceramic sculpture.

Accompanied by new scholarship on the artist’s practice, this publication situates her sculptures – which use a feminist visual language to address social issues, such as gun violence, environmental degradation, and gender conformity – within the context of broader art historical developments.

👉 Get your copy online or in your favorite local bookstore!

15/07/2025

ROARING explores the role of the automobile as both object and subject in interwar France, a period of exceptional creativity, innovation, and turbulence. Expansive and interdisciplinary, ROARING illuminates the rich creative ecosystems that nourished this golden age of French automotive design. This catalogue explores the role of the automobile as both object and subject in France between the two world wars. It untangles the impact of fashion, interiors, architecture, aviation, and the avant-garde on French automobile design and production. 🚘

In turn, the exhibition at as well as the exhibition catalogue highlight the bold, untethered visions of artists like Josephine Baker, Le Corbusier, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, and Jacques-Henri Lartigue who embraced the automobile as a provocative expression of the modern age.

👉 ROARING is on view through July 27. You can get your copy of the catalogue at the museum store.

02/07/2025

Visionary, dreamer, romantic, Bauhaus artist: T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011)

The play of light and shadow, visionary images, and vibrant colours shaped the work of T. Lux Feininger. The son of the famed Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger studied at the Bauhaus himself and later worked in America. Over the course of nine decades, his consistently superb output was shaped by romantic ideals of primordial inspiration. An artistic oeuvre full of dream worlds and longing, wit and imagination!

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21/06/2025

Between Reality and Utopia – Visions of a Better World

The Expressionist and “Brücke” artist Max Pechstein was a pioneering representative of modernism in Germany. His intensely colourful depictions of people and nature are regarded as foundational to Expressionism and were a defining inspiration for an entire epoch. „Max Pechstein: Vision and Work“ magnificently illustrates the diversity and depth of his oeuvre.

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18/06/2025

This short video narrated by Dodge shown at the Eastern European art gallery gives you a sense of Ylla’s artistic style, creative output, and larger-than-life spirit similarly captured in countless animal species (domesticated, in zoos, and wild), along with the author’s devotedness and scholarship.

Get your copy of Ylla’s "The Birth of Modern Animal Photography" here: https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-3-3/ylla-2527/

Interjú Pryor Dodge-dzsal, az Ylla: A modern állatfotózás születése című kiállításunk kurátorával. A kiállítás megtekinthető:2025. február 20. – április 6.Ke...

12/06/2025

We love New York! 🤍

For all readers who feel the same way, we have compiled a few exhibition tips and books about New York and it‘s artists.

30/05/2025

Celebrating Herzog & de Meuron’s iconic new National Library of Israel, built together with Israeli Executive Architect Mann-Shinar, "The Library – An Open Book" takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world’s leading authors and artists.

Here you can see pictures of the book in the , as well as photos from the launch event, which was attended by around 300 guests.

We are delighted to have had the opportunity to publish this special book. As so aptly puts it in his blog: "… not like any book I have ever read."

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27/05/2025

Last week, we joined and his wife, Sherrie, at for the printing of David’s upcoming book, "Brownie".

On the same day, "Barkley L. Hendricks", which features Katzenstein’s photographs as well, was also printed. Senior editor Rainer Arnold was on site to review the two books with the artist. Here are some impressions from that day.

21/05/2025

🙌 Our autumn catalogue 2025 🙌

Have a look at our upcoming books. For more information about our autumn program go to the URL in the bio. 👆

Has a certain book already caught your eye? 🤍

30/04/2025

🌟Holkham🌟

An English Treasure House and Its Landscape

Lord Leicester designed Holkham as the ideal home and setting for the ancient sculptures, distinguished paintings, and other treasures he had acquired on his Grand Tour. The unique Marble Hall and the Gallery revive and celebrate the virtues of ancient Rome, while the saloons and staterooms vibrate with a baroque sense of grandeur and splendor. With the original family still in custodianship, Holkham is a unique survivor of the golden age of English country house culture.

Richly illustrated and with far-reaching essays, this volume invites us to a splendid tour through an incredibly well-preserved house, with all its splendidly furnished interiors and amazing collection of artworks still in place. Come in and have a look.

👉 Available online or in your favorite local bookstore!

19/04/2025

You can now visit ROARING, the exhibition about fast cars, high fashion and bold design. We are very happy about this beautiful presentation of our exhibition catalogue in the museum shop. 😍

📍Until 27 July, you can visit ROARING and get your copy at .

08/03/2025

It’s 2025! 💥

There is probably no better day to highlight the work of women artists. Today and always, we recommend our book ‚We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Women Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction‘ which shows you the global south between 1914 and the 1970s through the perspective of women pioneers and their new artistic development: geometric abstraction.

Geometric abstraction as a worldview: artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of non- representational art. The volume presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and in addition to the applied arts takes into account the female perspective of the Global South with promising new discoveries.

📍Until 21 April 25, you can visit the exhibition at .

👉 Get your copy online or in your favorite local bookstore!