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Mother's Duty

Mother's Duty

TitleInterior with a Mother delousing her child's hair, known as 'A Mother's duty'Yearc. 1658-60ArtistPieter de HoochTechniqueOil on canvasDimensions52,5 x 61 cmIn a room with a boxbed, a mother and child are sitting happily together. The woman is absorbed...

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Ferdinand Bol masterpieces

Ferdinand Bol masterpieces

An old woman is sitting quietly in her chair. On the table beside her is a book. She is wearing a kind of two-piece: a black dress and matching coat trimmed with fur, which is draped elegantly over the chair. In her hand is a handkerchief. This type of...

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Francis Picabia Conversation I, 1922

Francis Picabia  Conversation I, 1922

Francis PicabiaConversation I, 1922

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Man Ray

Man Ray

Man RayMarquise Casati 1922

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Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia21 February – 26 May 2008 Duchamp set himself the challenge of making art works that were not works of art, as traditionally understood. He decided that an art work did not need to be either visually appealing or even made by...

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Wilhelmina of Prussia

Wilhelmina of Prussia

Wilhelmina of Prussia Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820) was the wife of Stadholder William V. They were married in 1767 when Wilhelmina was sixteen and William nineteen. This portrait was painted twenty-two years later, in 1789 as a present to...

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Leda 1919, Otto Dix MMaxi08

Leda 1919, Otto Dix MMaxi08

Leda, 1919 Otto Dix In his foreword to the 1919 exhibition catalogue devoted to the group's prints Grohmann introduced Dix this way " Otto Dix appeared at Easter with brutal force, and all sorts of expectations were aroused. At the moment he is laughing...

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Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg

Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg

One of the most potent graphic cycles is the series of wood cut illustrations by the Dresden Secession artist Constantin von Mitschke-Collande for the Walter Georg Hartmann's allegorical book Der Begeisterte Weg ( The Inspired Way; ) Haartmann tells of...

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Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg

Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg

Constantin von Mitschke-Collande

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Constantin von Mitschke-Collande MMaxi08

Constantin von Mitschke-Collande   MMaxi08

Born 1884 Collande Died 1956 Nuremberg Education Thechnische Hochschule, Munich, 1905-07 ( architetural Studies ) Akademie, Dresden, 1907-10, 1912-13 Studied with Fernande Lèger and Maurice Denis, Paris

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