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Kunstformen der Natur was influential in early 20th-century art, architecture, and design, bridging the gap between science and art. In particular, many artists associated with Art Nouveau were influenced by Haeckel's images, including René Binet, Karl Blossfeldt, Hans Christiansen, and Émile Gallé.
Karl Herman Baumann (December 26, 1911 – January 30, 1984) was an American artist of German origin. Baumann was a leading California Abstract Expressionist , a noted professor of painting at the California College of the Arts and teacher at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art .
Karl Blossfeldt in 1895. Karl Blossfeldt (13 June 1865 – 9 December 1932) was a German photographer and sculptor. [1] He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. [2] He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow.
Karl was born in South Tyrol, Italy to an Austrian father, Anton Karl (1899–1984) and an Italian mother, Rosa Maria Adami (1911–1966).His father was a minister and a writer, but it was his mother who encouraged Karl's artistic development through her own interest in design and the arts.
The collection was founded by the psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns and his assistant, doctor Hans Prinzhorn, in the early 1920s. [1] [4] Between 1919 and 1921 the pair visited mental hospitals across Germany, initially collecting over 5000 works. [4] [5] [2] As of 2016, the collection held over 20,000 works. [5]
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The subject is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 that enveloped the city of Pompeii in volcanic ash, killing most of its inhabitants. As a scene from the ancient world it was an appropriate subject for a history painting, then regarded as the highest genre of painting, and the magnitude of the event also made it suitable for a large canvas that would allow Bryullov to showcase all his ...
Disturbing artwork created by Nashville school shooting suspect Audrey Hale has come to light as police revealed that the killer drew a “cartoon” outlining Monday’s attack.. Hale, the 28 ...