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Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture. She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated the waistline, and created bell-bottom trousers, trench coats, and turtleneck sweaters. In the 1920s, when Chanel employed more than 2,000 people in her workrooms, she had amassed a personal fortune of $15 million and went on to create an empire.

Amerikas literarischer Glücksritter. Er war Lotse auf einem Raddampfer und Goldsucher im Wilden Westen. Er war Drucker, Journalist und Vortragsreisender. Und: Er war einer der größten Schriftsteller Amerikas. Seine Helden Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn machten ihn unsterblich. Mark Twain war schon zu Lebzeiten ein Weltstar, der Präsidenten und Könige persönlich kannte. Was kaum einer weiß: Sein eigenes Leben war spannender als jeder Abenteuerroman. Als Experte: Michael Hochgeschwender.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, deutsche Malerin des Expressionismus: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.

Dass aus den Possen fahrender Spielleute Schauspielkunst wurde, verdankt das deutsche Theater dem mutigen Wirken einer Frau aus dem vogtländischen Reichenbach. Friederike Caroline Neuber vertrieb den Hanswurst von der Bühne und reformierte das Theater. Janine Strahl-Oesterreich zeichnet mit biografischen Anekdoten und Zitaten ein Porträt der mutigen und gebildeten Frau. Der Hörer taucht ein in das ereignisreiche Leben der Schauspielerin und Prinzipalin und erfährt, was das Theater der "Neuberin" zu verdanken hat.

Als Picasso 1947 den Friseur Eugénio Arias kennenlernt, entwickelt sich eine tiefe Beziehung zwischen ihnen. Vor allem ihre Überzeugung als Kommunisten verbindet die beiden Spanier im südfranzösischen Exil. Sie teilen aber auch ihre Liebe zum Stierkampf und einen spielerisch frechen Humor. "Picassos Friseur" erzählt von der ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft zweier außergewöhnlicher Männer und vom Menschen und treuen Kameraden hinter dem weltberühmten Maler.

Marc Chagall, Maler und Kosmopolit: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

Tout le monde connaît la tour Eiffel, personne ne connaît Gustave Eiffel. Ingénieur et inventeur de génie, Gustave Eiffel a bâti des édifices sur toute la planète, de la statue de la Liberté au viaduc de Garabit, de la gare de Budapest au pont de Porto. Il a connu la gloire et la descente aux enfers, les têtes couronnées et la prison. La construction de la Tour, clou de l'Exposition universelle de 1889, a constitué une incroyable aventure humaine et Gustave a dû se battre pendant vingt ans pour que son œuvre ne soit pas démolie.

John Lennon is often known as the rebellious, troubled Beatle - as if his disposition was just a bit gloomier than the rest. Lennon did indeed have his struggles in life. He was raised by an austere and controlling aunt, and he barely knew his own mother and father. As a result, Lennon grew up with a serious need for love, affection, and attention. It was this desire for recognition that would drive Lennon to reach for the stars. Come along as we explore the life and legend of John Lennon, from his troubled childhood, to his superstardom and eventual assassination in 1980.

Vincent van Gogh – weltweit bewunderter Begründer der modernen Malerei. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erlutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zum niederländischen Maler Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) wurde am 30. März 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Niederlande, als Sohn des Pfarrers Theodorus van Gogh und Anna Cornelia Carbentus geboren. Er wuchs in einer religiösen und kulturell interessierten Familie auf.

The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you’ve ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro’s “Rembrandts,” “Caravaggios,” “Miros,” and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe.

Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante; nei vagabondaggi dell'esiliato che scopre l'incredibile varietà dell'Italia del Trecento, fra metropoli commerciali e corti cavalleresche.

Immorale, assassino, folle. Geniale, profetico, rivoluzionario. Chi era davvero Caravaggio? Sono ancora molti i misteri che circondano la figura sfuggente e controversa di Michelangelo Merisi. Lo storico dell'arte Costantino D'Orazio fa luce sulle ombre che circondano l'artista rileggendone i capolavori con stile immediato e accattivante. Un viaggio nel tempo per rivivere le atmosfere dell'epoca e scoprire i seducenti e ingannevoli giochi di prestigio che il pittore usa per nascondere significati più profondi all'interno delle sue opere

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo.

When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.

Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook - the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondent - one of the first women to do so.

One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg shares stories about becoming the woman she wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be - in her words, "the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn’t rely on a man to pay her bills."

Alfred Hitchcock’s work is legendary, and although he himself was known as a rather quiet and subdued figure in public, those who knew him privately saw a fiery disposition and unbridled passion lurking just beneath the surface of his placid exterior. Films such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds sky-rocketed him to fame, and have since led many to hail him as the greatest director of all time.

At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) gehört zu den einflussreichsten Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu Lebzeiten veröffentliche er nur eine Hand voll Erzählungen, darunter seine bekannteste, "Die Verwandlung". Die Romane "Der Prozess", "Das Schloss" und "Der Verschollene" erschienen erst nach seinem Tod. Sie begründeten Kafkas Weltruhm als seismographischen Interpreten der Moderne. Der englische Kafka-Spezialist Ritchie Robertson erhellt beides: Kafkas krisengeschütteltes Leben und die Raffiniertheit seiner oft rätselhaft anmutenden Texte.