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One of the earliest list of woodcuts by Dürer was assembled in 1808 by Adam Bartsch in his "Le Peintre Graveur" volume 7 [1] and in the appendix. In 1862 Johann David Passavant expanded "Le Peintre Graveur" [2] adding additional woodcuts. Bartsch and Passavant works, which were organized alphabetically, are the source of "B." and "P." numbers ...
Influenced by German Gothic—Kirchner studied Durero's woodcuts in depth—African art, Arts and Crafts, Jugendstil, the Nabis and artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Munch, were interested in a type of subject matter centered on life and nature, reflected in a spontaneous and instinctive way, so their main themes are the nude -whether ...
German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art.. Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and defining its borders has been a notoriously difficult and painful process.
Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the fifth child in her family.Her father, Karl Schmidt, was a Social Democrat who became a mason and house builder. Her mother, Katherina Schmidt, was the daughter of Julius Rupp, [8] a Lutheran pastor who was expelled from the official Evangelical State Church and founded an independent congregation. [9]
Escher worked primarily in the media of lithographs and woodcuts, although the few mezzotints he made are considered to be masterpieces of the technique. In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures, and space. Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings, and spirals. [45]
In 2009 she received the Teresa Bulgarini Prize [7] for her woodcuts which deal with concepts of time, motion, velocity and acceleration. In 2012 she was awarded the first ever Goethe-Institut artist's residency in Vietnam, [ 8 ] jointly sponsored by the state of Saxony.
At the end of the war he became a member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst in Berlin, which was an anti-academic, socialist movement of German artists during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Schmidt-Rottluff’s angular, contrasting style became more colorful and looser in the early 1920s, and by the mid-1920s he began to evolve into flat shapes ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century German painters. It includes German painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents