Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini was awarded Austria’s Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her Egon Schiele’s Portraits was nominated for the National Book Award and her The Changing Image of Beethoven is used in classrooms around the country. Her travels, recorded in the memoir, In Passionate Pursuit, extend from Europe to Antarctica and are reflected in this, her first mystery novel.
16 Ebooks door Alessandra Comini
Alessandra Comini: Killing for Klimt
In this first in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, becomes involved in a race to recover the Secretum, a “sha …
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Alessandra Comini: The Schiele Slaughters
Retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, is called to Vienna to help solve the brutal murder of a museum night watchman whose naked cadaver was …
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Alessandra Comini: The Kokoschka Capers
In this third book in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, a major double portrait by the Viennese Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka showing himself with his lover Alma Mahler has been stolen from the …
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Alessandra Comini: The Munch Murders
The art world is stunned. In the space of a little over a week three Edvard Munch paintings, including the iconic Scream, have been stolen from museums in Oslo and Stockholm. Retired professor of art …
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Alessandra Comini: The Kollwitz Calamities
Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such a …
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Alessandra Comini: The Kandinsky Conundrum
A moving van filled with eleven Wassily Kandinsky paintings stolen from Munich’s famous Lenbach House Museum during a violent neo-Nazi demonstration is hijacked in Slovakia. Two rival Kandinsky colle …
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Alessandra Comini: The Mahler Mayhem
During a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera there is an explosion in the foyer just off the auditorium. Auguste Rodin’s famous 1909 bronze bust of composer and conductor Gus …
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Alessandra Comini: The Beethoven Boomerang
A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming “Beethoven Was Black” in Bonn’s historic Münsterplatz with its majestic monument to the Bonn-born composer. Attending a Beethoven jubilee …
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Alessandra Comini: Beethoven
Wie haben die Zeitgenossen Ludwig van Beethoven erlebt? Wie entstand aus Verehrung und Missverstehen das ’titanische’ Beethoven-Bild der Romantik? Die Spurensuche in Bild, Wort und Skulptur führt übe …
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Alessandra Comini: In Passionate Pursuit
Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini reminisces through …
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Alessandra Comini: Der Beethoven Bumerang
Mordende Dirigentinnen, durchgeknallte Museumsdirektoren, selbstvergessene Aktivisten – in Alessandra Cominis Krimis lässt sich so manche Parallele zur heutigen Kunst- und Kulturszene erahnen. Hier f …
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Alessandra Comini: The Brahms Bust
After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies an unknown bust of the young, beardless Johannes Brah …
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Alessandra Comini: Die Brahms Büste
Ein neuer spannender Fall für die Kunst- und Musikdetektivin Megan Crespi. In einem Antiquitätenladen in Austin, Texas, entdeckt Megan Crespi eine besondere Büste: der junge Brahms ohne Bart. Ob es e …
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Alessandra Comini: The Schumann Shaming
Researching for her book on 19th-century virtuoso pianist Clara Schumann and her eight children, Professor Megan Crespi encounters startling hatred or praise for them and for Clara’s composer husband …
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Alessandra Comini: Kunst und Klang. Mein Leben
‘Als eine der verdienstvollsten Kunsthistorikerinnen der jüngeren Geschichte hat sich die US-amerikanische Professorin Alessandra Comini unendliche Meriten erworben, insbesondere in der Erforschung d …
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Alessandra Comini: The Mendelssohn Malice
Megan Crespi is back in Europe researching for a biography on ’the other Mendelssohn, ‘ Felix’s sister Fanny, also a prolific and until recently long overlooked composer. She is joined by three colle …
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