englischHow did Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019) become the artist he was? What drove this “Picasso of the caricature” to create an oeuvre of more than 40,000 works in the course of his life? The author Agata Hofrichter analyses Ungerer's eventful biography and his work and sheds light on the search for [...]

englischMore than ever, the world is faced with the need to develop a sustainable peace order in which all political, ideological and religious communities are involved and which they all support. Based on the previous volumes, which analysed secular conceptions of peace as well as Jewish, Christian [...]

englischAn outstanding piece of the handwriting collection of the Frankfurt City & University Library is the ‚Prayerbook of Claus Humbracht‘. Despite its sixteen magnificent illuminations and miniatures it has received little attention from academic research so far.

This art-historical study [...]

englischPaper models were a popular activity for children and at the same time a vehicle for educational content and political propaganda. Relevant historical paper models from the J. F. Schreiber publishing house were chosen to illustrate these purposes. The analysis of historico-cultural scenes, [...]

englischAndjelka Krstanović shows the emergence and establishment of a new German literary language during the first two decades of Peter Handke's artistic work, which remained formative in form and content through the establishment of a concrete narrative framework for his entire oeuvre. The author [...]