Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by

Gerd Hatje Gerd Hatje (14 April 1915 – 24 July 2007) was a German publisher. The publishing house that he founded in 1945, named the Humanitas Verlag, renamed in 1947 as Verlag Gerd Hatje, is internationally known for contemporary art, photography and archi ...

History
. Hatje Cantz Verlag. Accessed 3 April 2018. and has offices in Stuttgart and Berlin. Hatje Cantz Verlag has a

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of nearly 800 titles. Its photography books cover documentary and editorial photography, political and social issues, and landscape; its art books cover fine art and conceptual art. Hatje Cantz has been part of the

Ganske Publishing Group ''Ganske Verlagsgruppe'' (translated Ganske Publishing Group) is a German publishing holding company comprising eighteen distinct companies. The group is active mainly in book and magazine publishing with an emphasis on travel, gourmet, lifesty ...

since 2011.Annette Kulenkampff: "Unsere Unternehmenskulturen passen gut zusammen"
. Börsenblatt, 4 May 2011. Accessed 3 April 2018.

History

The publisher was established in 1945 by

. In 1990 it was sold to J. Fink Holding. After the bankruptcy of J. Fink Holding in 2011, Hatje Cantz Verlag became part of the

Books

Hatje Cantz has a

of nearly 800 titles, including the following: * Peter Bialobrzeski's ''Heimet'' (2005) *

Felice Beato Felice Beato (1832 – 29 January 1909), also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, ...

's ''Japanese Dream'' (2012) *

Christo Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific art, site-specific environmental art, environmental art i ...

's ''Valley Curtain'' (1973) *

Nadav Kander Nadav Kander HonFRPS (born 1 December 1961) is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellow ...

's ''Yangtze – The Long River'' (2010) and ''Bodies: 6 Women, 1 Man'' (2012) *

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

's ''

Suite Vollard The Suite Vollard is a futuristic residential building in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. It is the world's first spinning building.

'' (1956) *

Taryn Simon Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the Ve ...

's ''Birds of the West Indies'' (2013) *

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

– the first monograph on him (1970)

References

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