Johann König

The autobiography of Johann K nig, an influential art gallerist who lost his vision at the age of twelve. Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken, On Kawara, Rosemarie Trockel--Johann K nig grew up surrounded by great artists and their art. His hometown of Cologne was recognized as Europe's art capital in the 1980s, largely because of his family's work in the field. The art world, as a result, became his extended family. His father, the renowned curator Kasper K nig, took him on trips to Jeff Koons's studio in New York; Nam June Paik became his godfather after a "Fluxus baptism"; Gerhard Richter was the best man at his parents' wedding. When Johann was eleven, a tragic accident caused him to lose almost all eyesight. Isolated from the world, he found salvation in contemporary art. And when he was only twenty, he took the risk of starting his own gallery. What does it mean to become a gallery owner when you can't see? How can you access art if you can't rely on your eyes? In this memoir, Johann K nig recounts his unique upbringing and equally unique approach to art, one shaped by circumstance and ambition. With distinctive candor, he offers insight into the art world from the perspective of both a true believer and an innovator. Today, with a spectacular gallery located in a Brutalist church in Berlin, he continues his family's legacy while redefining what it means to see art. "A kind of personal statement of faith, and it makes for touching and sometimes funny reading ... A fascinating text."--Kito Nedo, frieze "A very entertaining book."--Kolja Reichert, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung "Open and unabashed ... Refreshing in the gallery business."--Tobias Timm, Die Zeit

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++National Library of ScotlandT230394Parallel English titlepage: 'The true English guide for Germans: ... First published by John King, ...', with the surname in the imprint spelt as "Hilscher." Originally known as 'Ein volkommener englische Wegweiser f r Hoch-Teutsche'.Leipzig: 1795. bey Christian Gottlob Hilschern, 1795]. 8],492, 4]p.; 8