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August Klett, or Klotz (1866–1928), was a German outsider artist with schizophrenia and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. The pseudonym August Klotz (Klotz being a disparaging term for a person of low intelligence) was given by Prinzhorn. [1] He was born in ...
Works of art were transferred by the Ministry of Culture, from the National Art Museum in Bucharest, and by the local government, including pieces by Barbu Iscovescu, Constantin David Rosenthal, Theodor Aman, George Tattarescu, George Panaitescu Bagdasar, Carol Popp de Szathmary, Ion Andreescu, Karl Storck.
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Like many art-historical terms, "Ashcan art" has sometimes been applied to so many different artists that its meaning has become diluted. The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against both American Impressionism and academic realism, the two most respected and commercially successful styles in the US at the end of the 19th century and the ...
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically trained within a popular tradition, rather than in the fine art tradition of the culture.
To serve its purposes, the Romanian Athenaeum, a building dedicated to art and science, would be erected in Bucharest. [ 1 ] The building was designed by the French architect Albert Galleron , built on a property that had belonged to the Văcărescu family and inaugurated in 1888, although work continued until 1897.
Brâncuși had experimented with this form as early as 1918, with an oak version now found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [3] The modules were made in the central workshop of Petroșani ( Atelierele Centrale Petroșani ), assembled by Brâncuși's friend engineer Ștefan Georgescu-Gorjan (1905–1985), and ...