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Friedrich Otto Karl Möbius (24 May 1928 – 7 August 2024) [1] was a German art and architectural historian. From 1976 to 1991, he was the full professor of art history at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French:; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition.
Born in communist East Germany, Moebius was forced to serve in the East German army. [1] Having initially pursued a formal education and a career in engineering and construction, he later studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. [2] Moebius moved to the US in 1998, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Charles Sherman (born 1947) is an American artist best known for his continuum sculptures based on a three-dimensional form of the Möbius strip. [1] Sherman’s work is included in museum and public collections, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, [2] the Mobile Museum of Art, [3] and the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership at Metropolitan State University of Denver. [4]
Möbius strips have been a frequent inspiration for the architectural design of buildings and bridges. However, many of these are projects or conceptual designs rather than constructed objects, or stretch their interpretation of the Möbius strip beyond its recognizability as a mathematical form or a functional part of the architecture.
Piranesi's work inspired the Carceri d'invenzione series of chamber works by the English composer Brian Ferneyhough. The 1998 film The Sound of the Carceri presents cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach in a computer generated simulation of Piranesi's Carceri. [23] The film is part of the Inspired by Bach series.
The Renaissance documents include drawings, prints, sculptures, paintings and medals as well as collection inventories, travelogues, artists' biographies and archival documents. [ 1 ] In addition to the records concerning the core topic of the Census database, collaborating projects have also added records that relate to earlier and later ...
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...