Artist: Peter August Böckstiegel 1889-1951 Auszug der Junglinge in den Krieg, Studie ( Departure of the Youngsters for War, Study ), 1914 MMaxi10
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Artist: Peter August Böckstiegel 1889-1951 Die Mutter ( The Mother ) c. 1915 Peter August Böckstiegel Born is Westphalia in 1889, Böckstiegel moved to Dresden in 1913 to pursue his studies at the academy. Back from the war in 1919 he became a founding...
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Random words and phrases Days go by MMaxi10 Spring is here and the birds are starting to celebrate natureTime for me to get my camera and start taking snaps of the city as it changes from gray into a bright greenWeekend RestCook maybe some carne de vinho...
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Hermann Max Pechstein, Selfbildnis mit Tod 1920-21 German Expressionism 1915-1925 The second generation. Hermann Max Pechstein began his artistic career as an apprentice to a decorative painter from Zwickau. In 1903, he enrolled in the Dresden Academy....
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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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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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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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Ludwig Meidner, like most of his poet friends, loved to walk the streets of the city. He roamed the outlying suburbs of Berlin for hours on end an drew his inspiration from what he saw.At night, back in the dark, little attic room that served as his studio,...
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Neues Land ( New Land ) 1920 Johannes Molzahn Expressionism began to show an apocalyptic or ecstatic coloration in the work of several artists after the war.In 1919 Joahannes Molzahn published " Das Manifesto of Absoluten Expressionismus " ( The Manifesto...
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