Piet Meyer Publishing House
| Piet Meyer Verlag AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2007 |
| Seat | Bern / Switzerland , Vienna / Austria |
| management | Piet Meyer ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.pietmeyer.ch |
The Piet Meyer Verlag AG is an independent Swiss book publisher headquartered in Bern and secondary headquarters in Vienna. He publishes writings on visual artists and art history.
history
The publishing house was founded by Piet Meyer in Basel in 2007, and there has been another publishing office in Vienna since 2010. The Swiss publisher is an ethnologist and art historian, lived in Paris, spent several years traveling in Africa and is a recognized expert on the ancient art of the black continent. His publishing house, which he founded as a lateral entrant and largely runs as a one-man business, started with the Small Library series and two books. The non-so-small library was added after just one year, followed by the capital library in 2010 . The series differ in terms of their size and format, but all remain text-oriented and small-format compared to the illustrated books of other large art publishers. What all of the publisher's publications have in common is the careful editing and high-quality equipment of the books, which have numerous color illustrations. The publishing house regularly takes part in the book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig as well as in the independent fair "BuchQuartier" in Vienna.
Title selection
Small library
- With Auguste Rodin in Paris - 1905 / Georg Simmel , 2007
- Visiting Edvard Munch in Ekely - 1927 / Curt Glaser , 2007
- My brother Auguste Renoir - The letter from 1879 / Edmond Renoir, 2007
- Memories of Chaïm Soutine - 1944 / Andrée Collié, 2008
- With Henri Matisse in Paris - 1931 / Gerhard Jedlicka, 2008
- In a flash of the perfect. Works by James Lee Byars and 100 Haiku for now / Heinrich Heil, 2010
- Visit to Camille Bombois - the fairground artist, wrestler and artist / Boris Vian , 2012
- Hours with Wols - 1947 / Ione Robinson, 2013
Not so small library
- Francis Bacon - Michel Leiris . A friendship / Michael Peppiatt, 2009
- Pablo Picasso in Zurich - 1932 / Sigfried Giedion , 2010
- A conversation with Louise Bourgeois / Donald Kuspit , 2011
- Paul Klee - Early Encounters / Walter Mehring , 2011
- Jackson Pollock - Friend, Colleague, Role Model / Barnett Newman , 2012
- Memories of Edgar Degas / Ambroise Vollard , 2012
- Louise Bourgeois : Moi, Eugénie Grandet / Jean Frémon, 2013
- A conversation with Philip Guston / David Sylvester , 2013
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner / Eberhard Grisebach, 2014
Capital library
- Pablo Picasso - Painting is never prose. A portrait / Mary A. Caws, 2011
- My marriage to Marcel Duchamp / Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor, 2010
- Conversations at night - Francis Bacon about his work / Michael Peppiatt, 2011
- Man with blue scarf. I sat for Lucian Freud / Martin Gayford, 2011
- A bigger message. Conversations with David Hockney / Martin Gayford, 2012
- The empty wall - museum theft. The Fall of the Two Turner Pictures / Sandy Nairne , 2012
- Ref / verenz - Contemporary Elective Affinities / Simon Grant (ed.), 2013
- Alfred Jarry . A pataphysical life / Alastair Brotchie, 2014
- Character. Heads. Gestures / Henri Michaux , 2014
- Leigh Bowery . Quick-change artist / Angela Stief (ed.), 2015
- The Art Spirit. The way to art / Robert Henri , 2015
- The yellow house. Van Gogh , Gauguin . Nine turbulent weeks in Arles / Martin Gayford, 2015
- At the Hotel Régina. Alberto Giacometti before Henri Matisse . Last portraits / Casimiro di Crescenzo, 2015
- 16 classics from art history. From Ernst Gombrich to Erwin Panofsky . From Hans Belting to Rosalind Krauss / Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard (eds.), 2015
literature
- Only what grabs me is relocated. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Pictures and Times", No. 78, March 31, 2012
- Reader and lover. In: Schweizer Buchhandel, issue 1/2011, January 1, 2011