https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/en-gb Writing from the studio of Hamburg artist Juliane Golbs. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/juliane-golbs-artist/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/juliane-golbs-artist/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200A portrait of the painter who unites romance with the expressive line, works with 24-carat gold leaf and understands art as an attitude towards life. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/female-artist-hamburg/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/female-artist-hamburg/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Hamburg is a city of water and changing light. An artist who brings exactly this light into her paintings works here, in a studio that opens by appointment only. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/painters-in-hamburg/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/painters-in-hamburg/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Hamburg is not a loud city of art. But it is a city of light – and this light has shaped artists for generations, from Liebermann to the present day. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/gold-leaf-painting/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/gold-leaf-painting/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Gold is the only material that seems not merely to reflect light but to multiply it within a room. On a centuries-old technique and its contemporary form. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/venice-design-week-2025-werns/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/venice-design-week-2025-werns/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200A white sculpture, a historic church, an evening full of music. How a live performance became the leitmotif of an entire festival. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/louis-c-jacob-artist-in-residence/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/louis-c-jacob-artist-in-residence/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Where Max Liebermann once painted the guests beneath the lindens, a painter is at work again. On a connection conceived as an open dialogue. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/ncl-foundation-art-and-responsibility/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/ncl-foundation-art-and-responsibility/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Childhood dementia is rare and little known. One artist decided that her paintings should also bring light into this darkness. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/fifth-season-heaven-cant-wait/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/fifth-season-heaven-cant-wait/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Some pictures begin with an idea. These two series began with life itself – with fear, with time given back and with the decision to celebrate it. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/buying-abstract-art-hamburg/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/buying-abstract-art-hamburg/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Buying an original is an intimate decision. This guide helps you make it calmly: with an eye on material, provenance, space and your own feeling. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/commissioning-art/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/commissioning-art/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Sometimes the right picture does not yet exist. Then it is made. On the path from the first conversation to a work painted for one place only. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/contemporary-female-artists-germany/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/contemporary-female-artists-germany/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200What does painting by women in Germany look like today? A look at a hard-won history, at defining positions of the present, and at what collectors can take from it. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/living-room-art/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/living-room-art/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200The living room is where a picture is seen most often. How to find the right size, how high to hang it, and which light suits it. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/art-as-a-gift/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/art-as-a-gift/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200Giving a painting is a gesture of trust. How to find a work that suits the person, which formats work well and how to hand it over. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/office-art/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/office-art/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200A reception, a waiting room, a meeting room: spaces that receive people tell visitors who works there. How an original painting helps tell that story calmly and credibly. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/large-abstract-painting/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/large-abstract-painting/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200A large painting is no longer decoration but architecture. Why statement works calm a room more than one might think, and how to find the right format. https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/abstract-floral-painting/https://julianegolbs.com/en/journal/abstract-floral-painting/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200For four hundred years artists have painted flowers that never existed. A short history of floral painting, from the lavish bouquet to abstraction.