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For the first time, women were to be admitted, and Senta Geißler switched to the academy, joining a course in drawing for the winter term of 1919/1920. The focus of the next year was on art-teaching ( Vorbildungskurs ), and in 1921/22 she took part on a specialist course for painters under the direction of Friedrich Fehr .
Drawing of Geissler tubes illuminated by their own light, from 1868 French physics book, showing some of the many decorative shapes and colors Modern recreation of a Geissler tube in a museum A Geissler tube is a precursor to modern gas discharge tubes , demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge , akin to contemporary neon ...
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (26 May 1814 in Igelshieb – 24 January 1879) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the hand pumped Geissler mercury vacuum pump in the mid-1850's and in 1857, the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube; these two inventions were critical ...
A giant of early 20th century art, whose glamorous figurative paintings of women played an important role in defining Art Deco, is now the subject of her first-ever U.S. retrospective, currently ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in Germany or whose artworks are closely ... (1894–1981), painter, art teacher, writer, pacifist; Clara Arnheim (1865 ...
The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [1] [2] or c. 1939 [3] [4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
1857: Geissler tube by Heinrich Geißler [432] 1857: Helmholtz resonance by Hermann von Helmholtz [433] 1859: Spectrometer by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff [434] 1861: First telephone transmitter by Johann Philipp Reis; [435] [13] he also coined the term "telephone" [13] 1864–1875: Centrifuge by brothers Alexander and Antonin Prandtl ...
With the “Tube Girl” trend, women are rejecting social norms and simply having fun in public spaces, even if it makes themselves or others cringe. “If I was to influence anyone about ...