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Pages in category "World War II artists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 273 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1941, the Navy Combat Art Program was founded in order to ensure that competent artists would be present at the scene of history-making events. Eight active duty artists developed a record of all phases of World War II; and all major naval operations have been depicted by Navy artists.
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914. (London: Greenhill, 1993). ISBN 1-85367-157-6; Haycock, David Boyd. "A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War". (London: Old Street Publishing). Hichberger, J.W.M. (1988). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815–1914 ...
Jahn became the Art Consultant to the German Embassy in Vienna in 1937, where he would then search for, purchase, and collect individual pieces of Hitler's art, allegedly in order to destroy a majority of the paintings. Jahn sold one of the largest collections of Hitler's art, about 18 pieces, with an average selling price of $50,000. [13]
This category contains individuals who focused extensive in creating War art or art that records and depicts wartime events. Most war art was completed under official war art programs, such as the United States Army Art Program. Ideally, war artist pages should be categorized by both nationality, and by the war in which they focused if those ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
March 4 – Rose Finn-Kelcey, English performance and installation artist (d.2014) March 8 – Anselm Kiefer, German sculptor; June 2 – Richard Long, English land artist; June 14 – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007) June 30 – Sean Scully, Irish-born painter; July 16 – Victor Sloan ...