Books & Catalogs (4)
forthcoming
Feminist Painting and Experimental Art in East Germany. The Case of Angela Hampel
Rochester, NY: Camden House
2022
Angela Hampel – Das künstlerische Werk / The Artistic Work
co-edited with Gisbert Porstmann
bilingual exhibition catalog for the Städtische Galerie Dresden
Berlin: Kerber Verlag (website)
2021
Kunst in der DDR – 30 Jahre danach
co-edited with Gisela Schirmer
Kunst und Politik: Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft
Göttingen: V & R unipress (website)
2018
Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany
Rochester, NY: Camden House (website)
Journal Articles - English (9)
2o24
“Experimental Art in Service to (East German) Society: Angela Hampel and Steffen Fischer’s Fluß-Uferzone, 1988," in Selva: A Journal of the History of Art, Vol. 5: East German Art History and Global Marxisms (online) (pdf)
2022
“Symbolic Erasures and Populist Discontent: The Post-War Rebuilding of Historic Dresden," in Monatshefte, vol. 114, no. 1, 24-51 (pdf)
2017
“Whose East German Art is This? The Politics of Reception After 1989,” in "New Research on East Germany,” ed. Marc Silberman, special issue, Imaginations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 79-99 (pdf)
2015
“East German Art & the Permeability of the Berlin Wall,” in German Studies Review, 38.3, 597-616 (pdf)
2014
“From Economic Equality to ‘Mommy Politics’: Women Artists and the Challenges of Gender in East German Painting,” in International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, vol. 2, 175-203 (pdf)
2012
"Painting the East German Experience: Neo Rauch in the Late 1990s,” in Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 2, 233-250 (pdf)
2012
“Denying Difference in the Post-Socialist Other: Bernhard Heisig and the Changing Reception of an East German Artist,” in Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, Vol. 2, 45-73 (pdf)
2006
“Playing with the Political: Feng Mengbo’s Streetfighter IV,” in Yishu, Journal for Contemporary Chinese Art, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 2006, 101-7
2003
“The Media of Manipulation: Mainstream News in the U.S. in the Weeks Following 9/11,” in Critical Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2003, vol. 45, issue 1/2, pp. 55-72
Book Chapters - English (10)
2022
“The Impact of Christa Wolf’s Kassandra on Women Artists in East Germany,” in Patricia Herminghouse and Gerald Fetz, eds. Remembering Christa Wolf (Berghahn Books, Spektrum Series), 244-64 (pdf)
2021
“Curating Out the Socialist Alternative: Art and Architecture in a Neoliberalized Leipzig,” in Curating (Post)socialist Environments, eds. Philipp Schorch and Daniel Habit (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Dialectics of the Global Series), 81-100 (pdf)
2020
“Art and Controversy in Dresden: Angela Hampel and Steffen Fischer’s Mural for the Jugendklub Eule (1987),” in April Eisman and Gisela Schirmer, eds. Kunst in der DDR – 30 Jahre danach (Kunst und Politik: Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft), 85-97 (pdf)
2020
“‘Socialist Realist’ Critiques of Neoliberal ‘Shock Therapy’: East German Artists Respond to the 1973 Putsch in Chile,” in The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, eds. Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu, and Kasia Marciniak (Oxford: Oxford UP), 432-451 (pdf)
2019
“Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone),” in German Division as Shared Experience. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday, eds. Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter (NY: Berghahn), 219-42 (pdf)
2017
“Re-examining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig & the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting,” in F.B. Lys and M. Dreyer, eds. Virtual Walls? Balancing Political Unity & Cultural Difference in Contemp.Germany (Rochester: Camden House), 117-130
2016
“From Doppelbelastung to Doppelgänger: Doris Ziegler’s Paintings of Women in East Germany,” in Deborah Barnstone, ed. The Double in Art (London: Peter Lang), 45-66 (pdf)
2014
“Heidrun Hegewald and the Cold War Politics of the Family in East German Painting,” in Elize Bisanz and Marlene Heidel, eds. Bildgespenster. Künstlerische Archive aus der DDR und ihre Rolle heute (Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag), 205-229 (pdf)
2011
"In the Crucible: Bernhard Heisig and the Hotel Deutschland Murals," in Amy Wlodarski and Elaine Kelly, eds., Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi) 21-39 (pdf)
2010
"Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany," in Sabine Hake and Philip Broadbent, eds., Berlin, Divided City, 1949-89 (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books), 83-95 (pdf)
Publications - German (14+)
forthcoming
»Beobachtungen zum Umgang mit ostdeutscher Kunst aus internationaler Perspektive« in Ostdeutsche Kunst: Bestands-aufnahme und Perspektiven, ed. Paul Kaiser (Dresden: DIK)
2025
Entries for five artists (Gudrun Brüne, Angela Hampel, Heidrun Hegewald, Johannes Heisig, Nuria Quevedo) in Die Sammlung der Nationalgalerie Berlin. Bestandskatalog nach 1945, ed. Maike Steinkamp and Emily Evans (Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) (link)
2025
»Angela Hampel« in Transitionen - zu Wirkungen gesellschaftlicher Ümbruche im Künstlerischen Werk, ed. Frank Eckhardt (Dresden: efau)
2024
»Dreissig Jahre Exil. Die 'Deutsche Biografie' von Nuria Quevedo« in Selbsterzählungen und Umbruchspüren im Œuvre von Künstler:innen der DDR, ed. Melanie Franke (Berlin: permanent)
2022
Three chapters and a descriptive biography (185-197) in Angela Hampel – Das künstlerische Werk / The Artistic Work (see Books/Catalogs above)
"Puck, Punk und Pink": Angela Hampels Malerei der 1980er Jahre,” 11-18
"Mehr Möglichkeiten, mich auszudrücken und mit dem Publikum in Kontakt zu kommen": Angela Hampels Installationen und Performances,” 19-30
Angela Hampels Werke im öffentlichen Raum in Dresden, 31-36
2022
“Bernhard Heisig” in Leipziger Schule Kritischer Realismus (Munich: Hirmer Verlag), 81-88
2020
“Das Motiv der ‘Doppelgängerin’ in Doris Zieglers Frauenbilder,” in Doris Ziegler. Das Passagenwerk. Malerei, ed. Paul Kaiser (Weimar: Tympanon), 149-161 (pdf)
2019
“Aufstand der Alibifrauen,” Sächsische Zeitung, December 10, 2019, p. 8
2019
“Angela Hampel,” Utopie und Untergang: Kunst in der DDR (Düsseldorf: Kunstpalast), 146-55 (pdf)
2018
“Gerhard Kurt Müller und die Leipziger Schule der 1950er/60er Jahre,” Gerhard Kurt Müller: Maler/Bildhauer/Zeichner, ed. R. Krischke (Altenburg: Lindenau-Museum), 67-78 (pdf)
2017
“Der Prophet im eigenen Land,” Sächsische Zeitung, November 11/12, p. 12 (pdf)
2010
“Heisigs Geisterbahn,” in Rüdiger Küttner, ed. Bernhard Heisig, eine unendliche Geschichte (Berlin: Galerie Berlin), 126-7
2005
“Eine ‘US-Amerikanische’ Sicht auf Bernhard Heisig,” Gestern und in dieser Zeit – Bernhard Heisig zum Achzigsten (Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2005), 42-5
2005
Commentaries for eleven paintings in Bernhard Heisig – Die Wut der Bilder (Köln: Dumont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2005), 219-24, 228-30, 242-3, 273
Translations (2)
2022
English translation of Gudrun Trendafilov: Arbeiten 1976–2022 (Dresden: SchumacherGebler)
2022
English translation (with two others) of Angela Hampel: Das künstlerische Werk / The Artistic Work (Berlin: Kerber)
Miscellaneous (6)
2020
“The Impact of Unification on East German Art: The Case of Angela Hampel,” in 30th Anniversary of Unification, Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies, 7-11 (pdf)
2017
"En shock y listos para actuar". Los artistas de la RDA y el golpe de Estado en Chile en 1973,” in El arte de la República Democrática Alemana, 1949-1989, ed. Bianca Gutiérrez Galindo (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas), 185-204 (pdf)
2012
“Robert Rehfeldt” in Grove Art Dictionary, Oxford University Press (also added East Germany to several sections of the “Germany” entry)
2011
“In Memoriam – Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011),” German Studies Association Newsletter, Vol. 36/2, 97-100 (pdf)
2011
“East German Art and Cultural Politics: A Brief Introduction,” ART / WORK Six Shorts. Dir. Jürgen Böttcher. DVD. DEFA Film Library
2009
Review of the 2009 LACMA exhibition catalog, Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, in German History 2009 27(4): 628-630 (pdf)