Museum Brot und Kunst
Forum Welternährung

Editor(s)

Isabel Greschat, Vater und Sohn Eiselen-Stiftung

Author(s)

Isabel Greschat, Markus Grob, Marianne Honold, Thomas Miedaner, Jan Rüttinger

Design

omnigroup, Lausanne

Cover

Hardcover

Size

16,5 x 22 cm

Pages

200

Illustrations

144

Language(s)

German

ISBN

978-3-96912-003-3

Food, Art, and Consumption

The craving for food and the desire to avoid being hungry have been among humanity’s central concerns for millennia. Economic activity, science, politics, culture—our basic need for sustenance informs and influences every domain of our lives. The catalogue accompanying the permanent exhibition at the Museum Brot und Kunst—Forum Welternährung sheds light on nineteen thematic foci around the significance of bread as the quintessential food. Founded in 1955, the Museum of Bread and Art was the first institution of its kind in the world dedicated to this subject; its collection comprises a large number of artifacts from across several centuries that speak to the histories of culture, society, and technology. The generously illustrated publication presents a panorama of the wide field of human nourishment in dialogue with art, helping the reader grasp the complexities of the world in which we live.

With works by Ernst Barlach, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Pieter Brueghel, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Simone Demandt, Agnes Denes, Frans Francken, Georg Flegel, Erich Heckel, Christian Jankowski, Markus Lüpertz, Gerhard Marcks, Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Claire Pentecost, Thomas Rentmeister, Daniel Spoerri, Andy Warhol and others.

The book was included in the shortlist of the competition “Schönste Deutsche Bücher 2021”.

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