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Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist.His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism 1940–1960 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000 ISBN 0-521-65154-9; Le Grice, Malcolm, Abstract Film and Beyond (MIT, 1977). MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 1992 and 1998). MacDonald, Scott.
Max Ernst. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. [1] A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. [1] He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude ...
Late Gothic Marienaltar by Tilman Riemenschneider, 1505-1508, Herrgottskirche, Creglingen. 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 ...
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor [ˈbʁandn̩ˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] ⓘ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin.One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Arnold Bode (1900–1977) Leopold Bode (1831–1906) Gottlieb Bodmer (1804–1837) Arvid Boecker (born 1964) Pedro Boese (born 1972) Corbinian Böhm (born 1966) Hans Bohrdt (1857–1945)
Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists. [1][2] The term was first applied to American art in 1946 by the ...
Art of Nazi Germany was characterized by a style of Romantic realism based on classical models. While banning modern styles as degenerate, the Nazis promoted paintings that were narrowly traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.