Part 2 of European Art Between the
World Wars
German Expressionism Between
the World Wars
20th Century European Art
20th Century Overview
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European Art
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Europe has been shattered by the First World War. The Russians have had the 1918 Revolution in which the Socialist / Communists have overthrown the Romanoff Tzar, Nicholas II.
Vladimir Tatlin: In 1919, Tatlin designs the tallest building in the world for the new Russian Communist state. It is to be 400 meters tall and intended to be the offices of the Komintern. The building would have been metal and glass. The three internal geometric structures would have rotated independently: the cube at the bottom once a year; the cone in the middle once a month, and the cylinder near the top once a day. The Soviets are too conservative to build the design. The League of Nations is set up at the insistence of the American President, Woodrow Willson, to prevent a war like this from ever happening again. Germany is broke, with heavy war reparations imposed on it by the peace accords. But art sitll flourishes in the heart of war-torn Europe. |
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Running parallel to this general survey of European art between the World Wars is another gallery showing the development of German Expressionism. Major artists are represented in both galleries. Less well known German expressionist artists will be found it that gallery. Click on the icon to the left to visit that Gallery |
born: Moscow, Russia; 16 December 1866
died: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; 13 December 1944
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Fragment #2 |
Pierre
Bonnardborn: Fontenay-aux-Roses, France; 3 October 1867
died: Le Cannet, France; 23 January 1947
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Olive Trees |
Eighteen more Bonnard pictures from between the wars.
Ten more Bonnard pictures from before the first world war.
born: Königsberg, Germany; 8 July 1867
died: Moritzburg, Germany; 22 April 1945
Other works:
See also: Survey of German Expressionism before the First World War.
born: La Cateau-Cambresis, France; 31 December 1869
died: Nice, France; 3 November 1954
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Blue Nude |
Egyptian Curtain |
Fifteen more Matisse pictures from between the wars and from the period after WW II.
Twenty-three more Matisse pictures from before WW I.
born:Granville, France; 25 November 1870
died: Paris, France; 13 November 1943
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born: Paris, France; 27 May 1871
died: Paris, France; 13 February 1958
The Holy Face |
born: Amersfoort, Netherlands; 7 March 1872
died: New York, US; 1 February 1944
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Vertical Composition in |
Broadway Boogie Wagon |
born: Tarkhovka (near St Petersburg), Russia; 1876
died: Leningrad, USSR; February 1942
Illustrator and set/costume designer.
Archer's Wife |
Six more set and costume designs by Bilibin.
born: Le Havre, France; 3 June 1877
died: Forcalquier, France; 23 March 1953
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Basin of Deauville |
Kasimir
Malevichborn: Kiev, Ukraine; 23 February 1878
died: Leningrad, USSR; 15 May 1935
Founder of the Russian Suprematism school of abstract art.
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Complex Presentiment: |
Woodcutter |
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Two D |
Snow Storm |
Eleven more Malevich pictures.
born: Münchenbuchsee (near Bern), Switzerland; 18
December 1879
died: Muralto (near Locarno), Switzerland; 29 June 1940
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Seventeen |
Twenty-two more Klee Pictures.
born: Argentan, France; 4 February 1881
died: Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 17 April 1955
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Three Women |
Pablo Picassoborn: Málaga, Spain; 25 October 1881
died: Mougins, France; 8 April 1973
| Spanish artist who lived most of his life in France. He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. With Georges Braque he created of Cubism. |
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Dora Maar |
Eighteen more Picasso pictures.
born: Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France; 13 May 1882
died: Paris, France; 31 August 1963
| Braque was one of the influential revolutionaries of 20th-century art who, together with Pablo Picasso, developed Cubism. |
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Still Life with |
Still Life with |
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Two Mullets |
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Sixteen more Braque pictures from before WW I.
Other works:
Maurice Utrilloborn: Paris, France; 25 December 1883
died: Le Vésinet, France; 5 November 1955
The picture of Utrillo was done by his mother in 1921 when Utrillo was about 38.
Sannois |
born: Leipzig, Germany; 12 February 1884
died: New York, US; 27 December 1950
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Rivals Boxing |
Thirty more Beckmann pictures.
See also: Survey of German Expressionism from Between the World Wars.
Oskar Kokoschkaborn: Pöchlarn an der Donau, Austria; 1 Mar 1886
died: Montreux, Switzerland; 22 Feb 1980
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Amsterdam |
Twenty more Kokoschka pictures.
See also: Survey of German Expressionism from Between the World Wars.
German Expressionism
Between the World Wars
20th Century European Art
20th Century Overview
