Julius Meier-Graefe was a German

Germans

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 art critic

Art critic

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 and novelist. His writings on Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

, Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

 as well as on art of earlier and more recent generations, with his most important contributions translated into French, Russian and English, are considered to have been instrumental for the understanding and the lasting success of these artistic movements.

Biography

In 1895 Meier-Graefe was involved in the setting up of the arts and literary periodical Pan

Pan (magazine)

Pan was an arts and literary magazine, published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe. The magazine was revived by Paul Cassirer in 1910, published by his Pan-Presse....

 and founded the Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...

 magazine Dekorative Kunst

Dekorative Kunst

Dekorative Kunst was a German avant-garde art magazine published from 1897 to 1929. The magazine promoted the Jugendstil or Art Nouveau style and was founded by Julius Meier-Graefe....

 in 1897.

Writings

Der Fall Böcklin und die Lehre von den Einheiten

Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst, Vergleichende Betrachtung der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik. 3 vols. Verlag Julius Hofmann, Stuttgart 1904

2nd revised and enlarged edition, R. Piper & Co. Verlag, München 1914 - 1922

Impressionisten: Guys - Manet - Van Gogh - Pissarro - Cézanne. Mit einer Einleitung über den Wert der französischen Kunst und sechzig Abbildungen. R. Piper & Co. Verlag, Munich & Leipzig ¹1907 & ²1907

Three of these chapters have been reprinted separately, revised and enlarged:

Edouard Manet

Vincent van Gogh, R. Piper & Co., Munich (Cover design after a drawing by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...

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4. - 6. Td.; 50 ill. and facsimile of a letter. R. Piper & Co., Munich 1912 (published in two printings with deferring illustrations!)

4th, improved edition; 50 ill. (not 40 ill., as stated on the title page!) and facsimile of a letter. R. Piper & Co., Munich 1918

5th, improved edition; 50 ill. and facsimile of a letter. R. Piper & Co., Munich 1922

6th, improved edition, 14. - 16. Td.; 54 ill. and facsimile of a letter. R. Piper & Co., Munich 1929

Paul Cézanne, R. Piper & Co., Munich (Cover designed by Franz Marc

Franz Marc

Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement...

, after a painting by Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

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5th, totally revised edition, 7. - 10. Td.; 38 ill. R. Piper & Co., Munich 1923

Auguste Renoir, R. Piper & Co., Munich

5th edition, "to be published 1924"

Courbet

Re-edited 1924

Vincent, 2 vols. 103 plates. R. Piper & Co., Munich ²1922

Pre-release serialised in Der Neue Merkur 3 (1919/1920)& 4 (1920/1921):

Vincent und Theo, Der Neue Merkur 3 (1919/1920), special issue: "Werden", pp. 37-78

Van Gogh in Paris, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 143-169

Van Gogh in Arles, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 445-460

Das Gelbe Haus, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 523-532

Van Gogh und Gauguin, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 622-643

Fou-Roux (Der rote Narr), Der Neue Merkur 4( 1920/1921), pp. 685-696

Van Gogh in St. Remy, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 769-786

Das Ende Van Goghs, Der Neue Merkur 4 (1920/1921), pp. 822-841

Vincent van Gogh, der Zeichner. 52 plates. Otto Wacker-Verlag, Berlin 1928

printed in December 1927, see colophon

Renoir, Klinkhardt & Biermann Verlag, Leipzig 1929, with 407 illustrations and 10 plates

Gestandnisse meines vetters - novellen , 1923 , Ernst Rowohlt verlag in Berlin