The following books and publi­ca­tions have been published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich. We will gladly send these to you along with the invoice If you send us the relevant infor­ma­tion by email to stiftung@inselhombroich.de. Orders within Germany are shipped free of charge.

Drei Kapellen

The artist’s booklet accom­pa­nies the permanent instal­la­tion of the group of works Sonnen­stand (Ursula Schulz-Dornburg), TURNED AS THE WORLD TURNS (Lawrence Weiner), and Three Windows (Nicolas Humbert/Werner Penzel) in one of Per Kirkeby’s Drei Kapellen.

Ed. by Roland Nach­ti­gäller for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich,
Intro­duc­tion to the Córdoba Calendar by Titus Burck­hardt
2025
English: ISBN 978–3‑9817303–5‑7
German: ISBN 978–3‑9817303–4‑0
16 pages with numerous b/w illus­tra­tions
5 euro

Raimund Abraham. Erdbeben der Stille / Earthquake of Quiet

The House for Musicians, built on the rocket station, is one of two buildings designed by Austrian-American architect Raimund Abraham that were realized in Germany. The extra­or­di­nary circular building is not only his last completed building, but also exem­pli­fies his radi­calism. Accom­panying the exhi­bi­tion of the same name, this publi­ca­tion brings together for the first time drawings, models, photos, and documents from the Abraham estate in the Coll­ec­tion Egidio Marzona (Berlin) as well as objects and documents from the archives of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich.

Eds. by Hubertus Adam and Roland Nach­ti­gäller for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Texts by Hubertus Adam, Ina Brandes, Oliver Kruse, and Roland Nach­ti­gäller
2025
German/English
ISBN 9783981730364
240 pages with numerous color illus­tra­tions
32 euro

Erwin Heerich: Catalogue raisonné of works made of paper and cardboard

Erwin Heerich, Paper and Cardboard: Sifting, Saving, Making Visible
With the walk-in sculp­tures at Museum Insel Hombroich and addi­tional buildings at Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich, the work of sculptor Erwin Heerich (1922–2004) has a signi­fi­cant influence on the overall appearance of the site. His artistic estate, which has been kept and looked after here since 2010, forms the basis for the catalogue raisonné of his paper and cardboard works, which is acces­sible to the public.
2025
Online publi­ca­tion: sammlung.inselhombroich.de/
free access

Hildegard und Erwin Heerich. Gleichklang in Autonomie / Unison in Autonomy

Based on two signi­fi­cant donations to the Stiftung Insel Hombroich from the Onnasch Coll­ec­tion in Berlin and the Düssel­dorf family estate, this exhi­bi­tion catalog presents for the first time a compre­hen­sive dialogue between the works of Hildegard and Erwin Heerich in the Hombroich context. The publi­ca­tion appears as a bound edition of the two indi­vi­dual catalogs. These are also available sepa­ra­tely on request at a price of €15.

Eds. by Maren Klink­hamer and Roland Nach­ti­gäller for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Texts by Jennifer Eckert, Stefan Heerich, Maren Klink­hamer, Roland Nach­ti­gäller and Silke Röckelein
2024
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑9817303–7‑1 / ‑8–8
194 pages in total with numerous color illus­tra­tions
27 euro

FARBE BILD RAUM. Bart van der Leck im Dialog / Bart van der Leck in Dialogue

The exhi­bi­tion and accom­panying publi­ca­tion present the extensive coll­ec­tion of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich on the Dutch artist Bart van der Leck (1876–1958) in dialogue with contem­po­rary works by Karina Bisch, Nicolas Chardon, Imi Knoebel, Erik van Lieshout, Florian Meisen­berg, Andreas Schmid, Boris Tellegen, and Yoana Tuzharova.

Eds. by Maren Klink­hamer and Roland Nach­ti­gäller for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Texts by Kaja Boelcke, Jana Crone, Maren Klink­hamer, Alexander Mark­schies, Bas Mühren, and Roland Nach­ti­gäller
2023
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑9817303–9‑5
144 pages with numerous color illus­tra­tions
25 euro

a+u 2023:06
Feature: Hombroich

The publi­ca­tion is the result of a colla­bo­ra­tion between archi­tects Barbara Hoidn, Wilfried Wang, and the magazine a+u.

Archi­tec­ture and Urbanism
A+U Publi­shing Co., Ltd, 2022
English/Japanese
ISBN 978–3‑8030–3423‑6
160 pages with numerous color illus­tra­tions
20 euro, out of print

Raumortpraxis. Impulse für neue Lebensentwürfe 

The publi­ca­tion accom­pa­nies the exhi­bi­tion of the same name and presents the compre­hen­sive coll­ec­tion of ideas by archi­tects Barbara Hoidn and Wilfried Wang on struc­tural change in the Rhineland mining region.

Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Wasmuth & Zohlen Verlag, 2022
German
ISBN 978–3‑8030–3423‑6
96 pages with numerous diagrams, maps, and color illus­tra­tions
24.80 euro

Hundert Jahre Erwin Heerich. Die begehbare Skulptur
With photographs by Iwan Baan and Tomas Riehle

This publi­ca­tion accom­pa­nies the anni­ver­sary exhi­bi­tion on Erwin Heerich’s work in Hombroich and is also a know­led­geable guide to the buildings designed by Heerich at the Museum Insel Hombroich and the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich.

Ed. by Roland Nach­ti­gäller for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Verlag für moderne Kunst Wien, 2022
German
ISBN 978–3‑903439–53‑5
96 pages with numerous color illus­tra­tions
15 euro

Das Buch vom Drehen und Wenden der Blätter

Published on behalf of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich by Oswald Egger,
designed by Jennifer Eckert.
With contri­bu­tions by: Oswald Egger, Thomas Schestag, Gundi Feyrer, Peter Gilgen, Sissi Tax, Sonja vom Brocke, Felix Philipp Ingold, Marica Bodrožić, Benedikt Ledebur, Aase Berg, Anneke Brassinga, Dagmara Kraus, Suse Wiegand, Hans Thill, Tristan Marquart, Ulrike Draesner, Astrid Nisch­kauer, Bodo Hell, Bogomir Ecker, Jean-René Lassalle, Martina Hefter, Michael Donhauser, Ulf Stol­ter­foht, Marion Poschmann, Stefana McLure, Jil Barrow, Kerstin Preiwuß, Farhad Showghi, Norbert Lange, Marcel Beyer, Aris Fioretos, Durs Grünbein, Jennifer Eckert, Ilma Rakusa, Michael Lentz, lain Galbraith, Urs Allemann, Michel Sauer, Patrick Beurard-Valdoye, Peter Schreiner, Tamara Štajner, Kathrin Röggla, Monika Rinck, Daniela Seel, Max Renkel, Julia Trompeter, Jan Kuhlbrodt, Katrin Köhler, Franziska Füchsl, Uliana Wolf, Benedikt Ledebur, Brigitta Falkner, Nadine Weixler, Gustav Sjöberg, Iris Drögekamp, Arne Rauten­berg, Anja Utler, Theresia Prammer, Elke Luyten / Kira Alker, Florian Telsnig, Ralph Kaufmann, Ralf Simon, Martin Endres / Andrea Sako­parnig, Charles de Roche, Heinz Baumüller, Karin Kraut­hausen, Hartmut Hecht, Katharina Hinsberg, Erich Klein, Ursula Schultz-Dornburg, Benedikt Ledebur, Roland Nach­ti­gäller.

Das böhmische Dorf gGmbH, 2022
Softcover, 416 pages, text, photo­graphs, images
German
ISBN 978–3‑902024–72‑5,
25 euro

Jean Fautrier. Eine Sammlung

Jean Fautrier (1898–1964) is considered one of the pioneers and inspirers of informal art after 1945. Stiftung Insel Hombroich is showing its entire Fautrier coll­ec­tion for the first time, providing a special insight into the artist’s complete works, parti­cu­larly the two important phases from 1926 to around 1930 and from 1940 onwards. In addition to paintings and sculp­tures, the exhi­bi­tion also includes graphic works and artist’s books. The catalog intro­duces the artist’s complete works and recon­s­tructs the passio­nate coll­ec­ting acti­vi­ties of the foun­da­ti­on’s founder, Karl-Heinrich Müller, which spanned more than 30 years.

Ed. by Johannes Rößler for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
With contri­bu­tions by Johannes Rößler, Oswald Egger, Silke Röckelein, Kaja Teschner; Design: Jennifer Eckert
Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2022
German
ISBN 978–3‑86831–680‑2
144 pages with 83 color illus­tra­tions
22 euro

Terunobu Fujimori. Ein Stein Teehaus

The Ein Stein Tea House was planned and built over a period of more than a year and forms a 1:1 scale exhibit for the exhi­bi­tion Ein Stein Tea House and Other Archi­tec­tures, which will remain in the posses­sion of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich. It reflects a precise knowledge of the history and prin­ci­ples of the tea ceremony as well as the very personal inter­pre­ta­tion of these by the architect and historian Terunobu Fujimori.

Ed. by Frank Boehm for the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2021
72 pages with numerous drawings and color plates
18 euro, out of print

Tomas Riehle. Erwin Heerich auf Hombroich

Tomas Riehle (1949–2017) created highly evocative images during his decades-long photo­gra­phic explo­ra­tion of Erwin Heerich’s sculp­tures and buildings at the Museum Insel Hombroich and the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich.

Ed. by Katsuhito Nishikawa
Forewords by Hisako Nishikawa and Christoph Brockhaus
2014
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑00–046923‑7
120 pages with over 50 black-and-white photo­graphs by T. Riehle and drawings by E. Heerich
22 euro

Remo Salvadori. Continuo Infinito Presente, Sostare, Nel Momento

With this lavish publi­ca­tion, the Insel Hombroich Foun­da­tion documents the exhi­bi­tion of the same name and uses text and images to highlight the connec­tions between Remo Salva­do­ri’s work and the archi­tec­ture of Erwin Heerich and Álvaro Siza, as well as the surroun­ding landscape at the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich.

Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Texts by Germano Celant and Frank Boehm, photo essay by Attilio Maranzano
Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2019
German/English/Italian
ISBN 978–3‑95476–267‑5
210 pages with extensive illus­tra­tions
38 euro

Per Kirkeby. Bau und Bild / Building and Painting

The catalog not only repres­ents the exhi­bi­tion of the same name, but also documents for the first time, using archive material and photo­graphs, the creation of the artist’s six buildings on the Kirkeby-Feld in Hombroich.

Published by the Insel Hombroich Foun­da­tion
Texts by Frank Boehm, Anna Czer­litzki, Denys Zachar­opoulos; conver­sa­tion between Niels Olsen and Fredi Fischli with Jan de Vylder
Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2019
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑95476–304‑7
198 pages with 75 color illus­tra­tions
38 euro

Fotografische Inkunabeln aus der Sammlung Kahmen /
Photographic Incunabula from the Kahmen Collection. I+II

The publi­ca­tion repres­ents the two-part exhi­bi­tion of the same name, which was on display in 2017 and 2018 in the Räume für Foto­grafie at the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich and provided an insight into the coll­ec­tion of the collector Volker Kahmen, who died in 2017.

Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Foreword by Frank Boehm
With photo­graphs by Berenice Abbott, Jean Eugène Atget, Pidder Auberger, Willi Baumeister, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hugo Erfurth, Walker Evans, Ruth Hallens­leben, David Octavius Hill, André Kertész, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Lucia Moholy, Henry Moore, Tata Ronkholz, August Sander, Otto Steinert, Herbert Tobias, Wols
Instal­la­tion views by Ivo Faber
2018
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑12–732320‑7
94 pages with numerous black-and-white illus­tra­tions
23 euro

Souto de Moura. 1980–2015

In 2015, the Insel Hombroich Foun­da­tion, in colla­bo­ra­tion with the Bund Deutscher Archi­tekten (BDA), presented models, plans, sketches, and photo­graphs in the Siza Pavilion at the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich, show­ca­sing the creative processes and realized projects of Portu­guese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura between 1980 and 2015. The exhi­bi­tion and catalog were designed in close consul­ta­tion with the architect.

Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich and BDA
Forewords by Peter Berner, Bruno Braun, Oliver Kruse, Nuno Graça Moura; text by Carlos Machado; conver­sa­tion between Eduardo Souto de Moura, Frank Boehm, and Nuno Graça Moura
Photo­graphs by Luis Ferreira Alves
2015
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑9817303–0‑2
333 pages with extensive illus­tra­tions
35 euro

Markus Karstieß. Irden

In his artist’s book, Markus Karstieß uses photo­graphy to explore the interplay between his works and the spatial and local condi­tions of the Siza Pavilion at the Rakten­sta­tion Hombroich. Over a period of weeks, he visited his exhi­bi­tion Irden at different times of the day and night. The resulting photo essay is accom­pa­nied by a conver­sa­tion between the artist and Hombroich-based collector Volker Kahmen, a letter from Jannis Kounellis, and texts by Friedrich Meschede and Frank Boehm.

Published by the Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2016
128 pages with 70 illus­tra­tions
35 euro

Thomas Demand. Model Studies I & II

The exhi­bi­tion at the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich showed large-format close-ups of models by the Japanese archi­tec­tural firm SANAA and the American architect John Lautner. With his eye for detail, Thomas Demand created almost abstract visual struc­tures. The publi­ca­tion provides an overview of the works on display.

Ed. by Thomas Demand
Photo­graphs and text by Thomas Demand
Verlag Walter König, Cologne 2015
German/English
ISBN 978–3‑86335–780‑1
Large format, 136 pages with 95 photo­graphs
48 euro

Stiftung Insel Hombroich. Museum und Raketenstation

This compre­hen­sive illus­trated book brings together the key aspects and ideas surroun­ding the founding of Karl-Heinrich Müller. All parti­ci­pa­ting artists and numerous compa­n­ions have their say here, and an extensive pictorial section documents the various locations, the coll­ec­tion, and the extensive grounds.

Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Foreword by Ute Schäfer
Texts by Walter Biemel, Kitty Kemr, Karl-Heinrich Müller, Ursula Kruse, Erwin Heerich, Bernhard Korte, Gotthard Graubner, Anatol and Erdmute Herzfeld, Georg Kröll, Norbert Tadeusz, Ludwig Soumagne, Thomas Kling, Christoph Staude, Oliver Kruse, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Michael Growe, Ute Langanky, Georg Schmidt, Katharina Hinsberg, Dietmar Hofmann, Oswald Egger
7th edition 2014
German/English
ISBN 3–00-002760–2
272 pages with extensive illus­tra­tions
35 euro, out of print

Bernhard Korte: Insel Hombroich /Analogien zwischen Kunst und Natur / Spaziergang zu den Bäumen

In the early 1980s, Karl-Heinrich Müller commis­sioned landscape architect Bernhard Korte to develop the initially rural grounds of the Museum Insel Hombroich. This colla­bo­ra­tion resulted in three brochures in which Korte explores the analogies between art, archi­tec­ture, and the natural envi­ron­ment he designed.

Düssel­dorf 1988/89
German
24 pages, numerous black-and-white photo­graphs
5 euro each