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  2. Paul Klee - Wikipedia

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    Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on ...

  3. Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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    Albrecht Dürer (/ ˈdjʊərər /; [1] German: [ˈʔalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [2][3][1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high ...

  4. Distributive writing - Wikipedia

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    Distributive writing. Distributive writing is the collective authorship (or distributed authorship) of texts. This further requires both a definition of collective and texts, where collective means a connected group of individuals and texts are inscribed symbols chained together to achieve a larger meaning than isolated symbols.

  5. German art - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Gesamtkunstwerk - Wikipedia

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    Stairway of the Hôtel Tassel, an early example of Gesamtkunstwerk. A Gesamtkunstwerk (German: [ɡəˈzamtˌkʊnstvɛʁk] ⓘ, literally 'total artwork', translated as 'total work of art', [1] 'ideal work of art', [2] 'universal artwork', [3] 'synthesis of the arts', 'comprehensive artwork', or 'all-embracing art form') is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.

  7. Kurrent - Wikipedia

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    Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021. Kurrent (German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the ...

  8. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    It mainly focuses on the physical aspects of the artwork, such as medium, color, value, space, etc., rather than on what it communicates. [1] Content, on the other hand, refers to a work's subject matter, i.e., its meaning. [2][3] But the terms form and content can be applied not only to art: every meaningful text has its inherent form, hence ...

  9. Culture of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Standard German is a West Germanic language and is closely related to and classified alongside English, Dutch, and the Frisian languages. To a lesser extent, it is also related to the East (extinct) and North Germanic languages. Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. [9]