Boris von Brauchitsch
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Boris von Brauchitsch

Boris von Brauchitsch, born in Aachen in 1963, studied Art History in Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin and wrote his PhD thesis on the history of photography. In his succinct biographies on prominent artists such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Gabriele Münter and others he focuses on the history of photography and of classical modernity. He works as a curator, author and photographer and lives in Berlin.

Boris von Brauchitsch, born in Aachen in 1963, studied Art History in Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin and wrote his PhD thesis on the history of photography. In his succinct biographies on prominent artists such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Gabriele Münter and others he focuses on the history of photography and of classical modernity. He works as a curator, author and photographer and lives in Berlin.


PUBLICATIONS

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Year of Publication: 2025
Boris von BrauchitschYear of Publication: 2025
She was an outsider everywhere she went: in bourgeois Bremen, in provincial Worpswede, and in cosmopolitan Paris. When Paula Modersohn-Becker passed away in 1907 at the age of 31, nobody had a sense of how ground-breaking and revolutionary her oeuvre was. Today, she is considered one of the most important representatives of early Expressionism and is one of Germany’s most famous woman...
William Turner
Year of Publication: 2024
Boris von BrauchitschYear of Publication: 2024
Venerated as an unparallelled genius or dismissed as a madman by his contemporaries, William Turner is now recognised as one of the most important British artists of all time. No other 19th-century painter has had a greater influence on the evolution of art. Whether it was Impressionism, abstraction, or Futurism, Turner anticipated many of the developments that would spark furores decades after...
Caspar David Friedrich
Year of Publication: 2023
Boris von BrauchitschYear of Publication: 2023

A childlike disposition coupled with deep melancholy, a somewhat eccentric outsider, a politically inconvenient mind: Caspar David Friedrich – born in Greifswald, controversial during his lifetime, forgotten for half a century after his death, now the most important painter of German Romanticism.

In his concise biography, Boris von Brauchitsch describes how Caspar David...

Gabriele Münter
Year of Publication: 2017
Boris von BrauchitschYear of Publication: 2017

Gabriele Münter, daughter of German-American emigrants and partner of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, travelled to Tunis and Italy, lived in Paris and Stockholm and is an early and prominent...

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