"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The original copy: photography of sculpture, 1839 to today, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (August 1-November 1, 2010)"--T.p. verso.

The works featured in this book include paintings, sculpture and prints from the artist's Blue and Rose periods, his foray into Cubism, his neo-classical paintings of the 1920s and his images inspired by his young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter in the early 1930s.

For many years, as the Merzbacher Collection grew, it remained a well-guarded secret--lent generously but anonymously to museums, so that only a few curators understood its importance. In October 1998, it made its debut in The Joy of Color at Jerusalem's Israel Museum, and proved to be one of the most successful exhibits ever hosted there, drawing some 250,000 people. Since then the Switzerland-based Merzbacher Collection has also shown in London, and the New York Times has called it "one of the world-s finest private holdings of modern art." This book of its treasures spans more than 100 years of art-historical development and an abundance of movements, and includes work from Max Beckmann, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Henri Matisse.

The Museum Folkwang, founded by Karl Ernst Osthaus in 1902, treats its visitors to an exquisite assortment of paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. Many of the works are recognized classics of the avant-garde, while also serving as representatives of entire movements. The collection ranges from Caspar David Friedrich and Vincent van Gogh to Martin Kippenberger. Works of art from Japan, Java, Oceania, Africa, and other non-European cultures reinforce the museum's cosmopolitan focus, the foundations of which were laid with Osthaus's initial collection. In addition, the museum houses a comprehensive and noteworthy collection of photographs, with masterpieces by photographers from Gustave Le Gray to Andreas Gursky. And, finally, the German Poster Museum attests to the breadth of the Museum Folkwang's interests and its high level of commitment to the popular arts. This superb-quality volume is indispensable to every art enthusiast. Also available: Museum Folkwang: Painting & Sculpture19th - 21st Centuries ISBN 978394474104

This publication is meant to extend popular and critical understanding of Giacometti's achievement and to return the reader to the center of Giacometti's work, where new insights can only be revealed by the objects themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

This guide takes visitors on a chronological tour of the Museum Folkwang's painting collections from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The first few pages provide an introduction to the museum's fascinating architectural design and history. Sculptures and installations round out this impressive and sensitively designed volume.