The international “LOUNGE” contest is divided into the following award categories:
- 1 – 3 prize and Honorable Special Prize
- Excellence Jury Prizes
- Honorable Mentions
- Amber Awards
- Finalists
- Artists Nominee
Author Archives: Kurt Ries and Gabriele Walter
‘Enter into Art’ book design awards 2022
The book design prizes are awarded according to the requirements of the book design, whereby the quality of the works of art naturally plays an important role. These prizes are awarded as part of a book project. The winning images will be selected solely from the participating images in the respective book. In our LOUNGE series we usually have about 50 to 70 participants per book. The artworks of the participants automatically take part in the respective competition.
Continue readingGerman online show and other related links:
Information about our free services: German online show, rewards – winner blog posts for the annual jury awards in German, tips and offers, “Enter into Art” bonus video, book presentations – on-screen art shows, public relations / networking on the Internet
Continue readingVideo “International Artworks 2022” with relaxing music
Video for the first 20 participants in our book projects 2022
The images in the video represent a bonus selection of 20 images per book that have been published in 2022 in the bilingual Enter into Art – gift book series:
Continue readingOur unique characteristics – summary of the ‘Enter into Art’ exhibitions, 2016
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Attention is the key to success! If you get no attention, it is hard to deserve something, which is why attention is also known as the leading currency. Nothing ensures lack of success like having no attention. If an artist does not want be lost in the crowd, then he takes care to do something special, something new, spectacular or never done before. With our art installations, we will relieve you not only of this work by offering an exceptional exhibition concept, but also integrate your images within the impetus of attentiveness as a PR concept!
About the art book
The way we work?
As editors and experts in public relations, we generally do not sell books. Instead, we aim to create books that contain good ideas and high quality artwork that will appeal to an international audience.
Continue reading‘Enter into Art’ book design awards 2021
The book design prizes are awarded according to the requirements of the book design, whereby the quality of the works of art naturally plays an important role. These prizes are awarded as part of a book project. The winning images will be selected solely from the participating images in the respective book. In our LOUNGE series we usually have about 50 to 70 participants per book. The artworks of the participants automatically take part in the respective competition.
Continue readingBook presentations with on-screen show 2022 in Cologne
Foyer of the Town Hall Gallery in Cologne-Kalk
We are very pleased that – despite the difficult Corona situation – we are able to carry out 6 book presentations with on-screen shows in the Cologne-Kalk cultural center. This applies to the “Enter into Art” books that were published in 2021 with works of art from all over the world.
Continue readingThe magic of public relations
Reputation PR with art books
With the help of reputation or so-called image PR, one can generate public attention quite cheaply and sustainably. Sometimes it goes hand in hand with advertising and yet has to be clearly distinguished from it. The so-called “white PR” works with completely clean methods and is to be understood as a brilliant tool of public relations work. It is considered to be the most important success tool of the new millennium. Above all, extraordinary events play an important role. But do you have to divorce twice a year or hire VIPs and opinion makers in order to make a career as an artist or to increase your level of awareness?
Continue readingFree internet documentation, online PR, awards and rewards
Enter into Art – LOUNGE jury contest 2021 for larger artworks
Book design awards:
(cover, backcover, title page, music pages, chapter pages)
The book design awards are part of the “Enter into Art” book projects. For more information please see the title page and also the chapter pages in the books! Click on the red links for the books below!
Continue readingVideo “International Artworks 2021” with relaxing music
Video for the first 20 participants in our book projects 2021
The images in the video represent a bonus selection of 20 images per book that have been published in 2021 in the bilingual Enter into Art – gift book series:
Continue readingA Fine Art Journey – Thoughts on Traveling
Poets and artists are interested in experiencing selected places with a specific atmosphere, because their talent is based on their special power of perception and their sensitivity. Most of them are experts at zooming in on impressions that move their imagination and lead to the release of poetic sparks. Whenever Hermann Hesse went on a trip, for example, he brought home what he referred to as “some large or small treasure”. These treasures included the deep insights he had gleaned from eastern spirituality. He also had a clearer understanding of the social injustices in the world than many of his contemporaries.
Continue readingGuillaume Apollinaire’s Words Set to Music and his Time in the Rhineland
Excerpt from the book “Art Retreat 2019”
Apollinaire and Music
As it seemed fitting, we decided to return to the theme of our “Hommage à Guillaume Apollinaire“ during the exhibition period of 2018-2019. This time, we are honoring the great French poet with our latest book. Each chapter is dedicated to a color and begins with the name of a composer followed by a piece of music set by the same to one of Apollinaire’s poems. This is yet another way to continue our tradition of bringing together visual arts with poetry and music in our events and art books. Doubtlessly, our artistic creativity also draws on the poetic soulscape inhabited by the famous poet, art critic, and friend of Picasso’s for an entire year.
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German online show
Continue readingIsao Kobayashi: Mysterious Worlds
We are pleased to announce the solo art and gift book “Mysterious Worlds” of our artist friend Isao Kobayashi from Japan. The trademarks of Kobayashi’s works are their multi-layered depth and their tonal beauty. The artist is an excellent observer of hidden details. In a world full of secrets and mysteries, his paintings are signposts towards the truth. With his novelistic and dramatic touch, he takes observers into a mysterious universe, opening the door to our imagination. The introduction of a musical work aims at inspiring readers to expand their perception to the tonal aspects of art and poetry. Inspired by the artworks and a topic-related selection of her haiku poetry, the editor chose the koto piece “Akikaze no Kyoku” (Melody of the Autumn Wind), for which the composer developed a specific way of tuning the instrument – the “autumn wind scale”.
Art gift book “A Fine Art Journey – Weltreise mit Kunst”
Editors: Gabriele Walter, Kurt Ries
With its purposefully structured content, unusual perspectives, and deep insights, and incorporating the sensitivity of people who create art, this art and gift book unravels the subject of traveling and invites readers to examine it in more depth. Eighty artists from thirty-two countries have come together to interpret traveling with their boundless imagination. Poets and artists are interested in experiencing selected places with a specific atmosphere, because their talent is based on their special power of perception and their sensitivity.
Free Christmas card with candle light and haiku poem – Christmas video
With the first beautiful candlelight here the Christmas season has begun, and we wanted to surprise you with two free Christmas greetings cards and a Christmas video with music. You can download the Christmas cards for free, each with a Christmas haiku, and then forward them as email attachments.
Continue readingSolo events in the period 2019 – 2020
Exhibition and book presentation Cologne-Kalk: A Fine Art Journey
Art Book KUNSTRETREAT 2019 – ART RETREAT 2019
Fascination of Worldwide Art and Color
The gift book in German is also the exhibition catalog 2019. The foreword, the table of contents, the poems and further chapters are also in English. In addition to 292 images and the winning pictures in the larger format, the art book contains chapters on the topics “Apollinaire and His Time in the Rhineland”, “Apollinaire and Music”, “Exhibition Concept” and a detailed guide for mindful and enjoyable viewing of art and colors. In addition, there are 38 haiku poems (featuring the voices of birds), images with art objects, photos of the exhibitions and illustrations included. The book also contains a chapter on the topics “Polish Students visiting Cologne” and “Enter into Art-Information”. Last year saw the introduction of the new category “Featured Artists”. Eight artists get to present their work on double pages.
Photos and tours 2018 / 2019
Photo mosaics of the exhibition period
August 2018 until July 2019
5th ‘Enter into Art’ International Installations 2018-19 on three rivers
Continue readingParticipating artists 2019 – main and traveling exhibitions (miniprint + mixed media)
Gallery – artworks 2019
Awards, winners, rewards, finalists and jury 2019
Book project, contest, art show “A Fine Art Journey”
Art gift book ‘Excellent Art – Exzellente Kunst 2019’
Book series LOUNGE 3 – volume I
The book project “Excellent Art” emerged from the two winner exhibitions in Weißenthurm “Excellent Art” and “Nominee and Won”. The art gift book “Excellent Art – Exzellente Kunst 2019” is being released in March 2020 (publisher edition).
‘Enter into Art’ text service – about our professional text concept
In our publications we abstain from the usual CV with listings of exhibitions and biographical data. These can be read on your website. On request, we add to our aesthetic consideration of your works a short vita in the form of an elevator pitch. If necessary, the vita can be incorporated into the consideration of art in a way that is both concise and entertaining. (The consideration of a sophisticated vita-text is however an extra service.) Undoubtedly, the interplay of poems, gifts and refined statements raises the value of your pictures. It is above all the poetic context that sets our art books apart from others.
Continue readingArt gift books by ‘Enter into Art’. Increase your reputation as an artist!
Books always lead to success. You can read them at any age and in any place. They are popular because they bring mental enjoyment and relaxation. They are a happy and comforting refuge, a daily highlight in times of hardship, treasures of education and liberal thought. Full of excitement, they will spend the nights with us. Above all, however, they rouse our curiosity, and many of us find the most thrilling company in the world of books.
Continue readingPrelude exhibition Bernkastel-Kues 2018-19: miniprint + mixed media
Art Gift Book – 16 times ART – 16 mal KUNST
The art and gift book „16 times art“ introduces eighteen artists from sixteen countries by presenting four small works per artist. The group exhibition under the same title was held from 25 June – 21 August 2018 in the light-flooded foyer of Weißenthurm’s townhall on the left bank of the Rhine. In addition to the visual artworks shown at the exhibition the book also features several haiku poems from Germany and the Netherlands. As two of the poets are also visual artists, their work is presented under the heading: “art and poetry”. During the exhibition, three artists received an “honorable mention” and are featured more prominently on the cover, title page, and back of the book.
Art Book ART RETREAT – KUNSTRETREAT 2018
The gift book in German is also the exhibition catalog 2018. The foreword and the table of contents are in English. In addition to 219 images and the winning pictures in the larger format, the art book contains chapters on the topics “Living with pictures”, “Collecting art”, “Art, wine, poetry” (wine meditation), “Exhibition concept” and a detailed guide for mindful and enjoyable viewing of art and colors. In addition, there are 35 haiku poems, images with art objects, photos of the exhibitions and illustrations included. The book also contains a chapter on the topic of the two Prelude exhibitions “Homage to William Turner and the Rhine Romance” and “Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang Goethe”. There is also a section on the haiku event in Cologne.
Group Exhibition “Nominee and Won” in Weißenthurm
Prelude exhibition Bad Breisig 2018: miniprint + mixed media
Touring the World through Art 2018-19
Art book and slideshow 2019
Related links 2018-19 on our websites and PR
Bonus video and other offers – 2019
Solo events in the period 2018-19
Group Exhibition “16 times ART” in Weißenthurm
Additional PR support by solo books and solo events?
Solo events, blogs, personal book, online catalog, video
Continue readingWhy public relations (PR)? Why is PR more effective than selling a small-format image?
In response to artists’ inquiries, we feel encouraged to publish an article about the effectiveness of and the way in which PR works, so that artists can better understand the value of our work. Indeed, PR evokes the appearance of a mystery whose meaning is not clear to everyone. PR has an indirect and long-term effect, which in the end generates more financial returns than the sale of an artwork. And publishing your pictures in art books is also extremely important to your reputation!
Continue readingWinner Exhibition “Excellent Art” in Weißenthurm
Art contemplations on your pictures: blog posts in German and English
Our German blog journal is a powerful public relations tool, which also disseminates professional articles, competition results and awards and our Online-Show. In this way, readers – particularly in German-speaking regions – can become more familiar with works of art to better understand them and the creative spirit of the artists concerned. Interested readers can view images and meditate with them. If they are interested in any of the artworks, they can get in contact with the relevant artist. Of course, the posts can also be published in English.
Continue readingPhotos and tours 2017 / 2018
Gallery – artworks 2018
4th ‘Enter into Art’ International Installations 2018
Participating pictures in Cologne, Weißenthurm and Kobern-Gondorf
Continue readingParticipating artists 2018 – main and traveling exhibitions (miniprint + mixed media)
Awards, winners, rewards, finalists and jury 2018
Prelude exhibition 2 – 2017: Homage Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Art Book – KUNSTRETEAT 2017 – ART RETREAT 2017
The gift book in German is also the exhibition catalog 2017. The foreword and the Table of Contents are in English. In addition to 212 images and the winning pictures in the larger format, the art book contains chapters on the topics “Living with pictures”, “Collecting art”, “Art, wine, poetry” (wine meditation), “Exhibition concept” and a detailed guide for mindful and enjoyable viewing of art and colors. In addition, there are 40 haiku poems, images with art objects, photos of the exhibitions and illustrations included. The book also contains a chapter on the topic of the Prelude exhibition “Homage to Guillaume Apollinaire”.