Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate,...
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Max Pechstein Max Hermann Pechstein (December 31, 1881 - June 29, 1955), was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, born in Zwickau. Early contact with the art of Vincent Van Gogh stimulated his development toward expressionism. After studying...
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Sp ani sh title: Aquellos polbos See the result: From such dust dirt must come. For shame, to treat her in such fashion! She who has waited on everyone for a trifle, she who was so industrious, so useful; she was an honorable woman.
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Sp ani sh title: Pobrecitas! They will have to repair what has long been going from bad to worse, to fix what has been forced apart.
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The painter Max Oppenheimer, three-quarter Length, 1910 by Egon Schiele Max Oppenheimer, a native of Vienna, began to study art at the Academy at the age of fifteen, continuing from 1903 at the Prague Art Academy. In 1906 Max Oppenheimer joined the Prague...
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Egon Schiele Girl with sun glasses ( Gertrude Schiele ), 1910 Albertina, Vienna Isolated patches of relatively unmodulated color, on the sunglasses and belt, are played against more expressively nuance flesh tones. The balancing of these two different...
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Posters: Max Pechstein ( Don't Strangle Our New Born Freedom), 1919 Rudi Feld ( The Danger of Bolshevism), ca.1919 The Between War Years As the 1st World War drew to it's bitter end, hunger and despair were rife throughout Germany. Military defeat and...
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Check Vincent Van Gogh's thème, Arles Bedroom, 1888 blogg posting on the 04/07/2006 A version of Van Gogh's painting was owened by Schiele's patron Carl Reininghaus andExhibited at the 1909 "kunstschau" MMaxi
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