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German-Danish painter and printmaker Emil Nolde (18651956) was one of the first and most important representatives of expressionism, as well as an essential precursor of modernism. First trained as a woodcarver, he later studied painting and developed th
When the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss art theorist Johannes Itten (18881967) was one of the first teachers to be appointed by founder Walter Gropius. Itten had a considerable effect on the Bauhauss creative training program, and his
Marianne von Werefkin was not only a talented artist but also a shrewd free thinker and hostess: at the beginning of the twentieth century famous artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Alfred Kubin, Adolf Erbslöh, Erma Bossi, Franz Marc and
Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) is the one artist whose name we associate in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the âGolden Ageâ. As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionab
Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America. Tod
How medieval Gothic art inspired a generation. Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europes north a
Wilhelm Leibl (18441900) is regarded as one of the most significant nineteenth-century portraitists and an important exponent of realism in Europe. After completing his studies at the Munich Academy of Art, Leibl traveled to Paris, where he was influence
Robert Longoâs work captures moments of tension in nature, politics and history at their emotional climax. Presented at a monumental scale, the size and virtuoso technique of his photorealistic charcoal drawings enhance his powerful imagery. Based on ph
Helen Frankenthalers (19282011) radical approach to paint and material creates images pulsating with colour. During the postwar period in the United States, she was a leading figure in abstract art. This volume brings together nearly fifty works, providin
1918 marked the end of a golden era: it was the year that Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, and Otto Wagner died. Artistic activity, however, had already freed itself of their influence. Hardly affected by the political disruptions taking pl
Explores the revolutionary Renaissance works of Leonardo and Dürer and their long-lasting impact on the art of drawing. Dürers Praying Hands is one of the worlds most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonard