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Thiess claimed to be a werewolf, although he asserted that in doing so he served God rather than the Devil, in contrast to common werewolf beliefs of the time. Thiess of Kaltenbrunn (Kniedini) , also spelled Thies , and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf , was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg , Swedish ...
One of the earliest list of woodcuts by Dürer was assembled in 1808 by Adam Bartsch in his "Le Peintre Graveur" volume 7 [1] and in the appendix. In 1862 Johann David Passavant expanded "Le Peintre Graveur" [2] adding additional woodcuts. Bartsch and Passavant works, which were organized alphabetically, are the source of "B." and "P." numbers ...
Hans Otto Orlowski was born at Insterburg, a midsized town a short distance to the east of Königsburg in East Prussia, which at that time was part of Germany. His father was a master tailor. [ 2 ] While he was growing up his family relocated, initially to Königsburg and later to Potsdam (near Berlin), and then Charlottenburg .
Grane (1980-1993), Woodcut with paint and collage on paper mounted on linen, Museum of Modern Art, New York [3]. Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor.
Gustave Baumann (June 27, 1881 – October 8, 1971) was an American printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America. [1] His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the New Mexico Museum of Art. [2]
woodcut 1927 2 ½” x 3” B W (Farm with Windmill) woodcut 1920-30 3 9/16” x 4 ½” W: Farmyard (aka Farm-yard) woodcut 1926 5” x 8” W: Feeding Time: woodcut 1923 4” x 6” B W: The Fighter (Jack Dempsey) woodcut 1930 5” x 3 15/16” W M: The First Snow: woodcut 1928 7” x 9” W: Fish: woodcut 1927 3 ¾” x 3 ¾” B W: Fodder ...
Heinz Kiwitz (September 4, 1910 – 1938) was a German artist. His woodcuts were in the German Expressionist style. An anti-fascist, he was arrested following the Nazis' seizure of power. He survived imprisonment in Kemna and Börgermoor concentration camps and was released in 1934. He went into exile in 1937, first living in Denmark, then in ...
At the end of the war he became a member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst in Berlin, which was an anti-academic, socialist movement of German artists during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Schmidt-Rottluff’s angular, contrasting style became more colorful and looser in the early 1920s, and by the mid-1920s he began to evolve into flat shapes ...