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Wenn das Land der aufgehenden Sonne in einem der häufigen Erdbeben für immer im Meer versinken sollte, würde es durch den magischen Pinsel Hiroshiges für uns dennoch fortleben.
Wenn wir seine Landschaften betrachten, trägt uns unsere Fantasie in ein Land der...
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Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), einer der talentiertesten Landschaftsmaler seiner Zeit, ist auch unter dem Namen „Claude Gellée“ oder einfach nur „Claude“ bekannt. Den Beinamen „Lorrain“ erhielt er aufgrund der Tatsache, dass er in der französichen Provinz Lothringen (frz....
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Die Vereinfachung der Formen und Linien, die Verwendung von reinen Farben, das Verständnis der Farbe als Farbäquivalent des Lichts, die Organisation des Raums durch Gegenüberstellung intensiver Farbflächen, das Recht, ein Werk entsprechend eigener Regeln zu malen, das...
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Der vielfach talentierte Albrecht Dürer nimmt einen bedeutenden Platz in der Geschichte der deutschen Kunst ein. In einer Zeit, in der die italienischen Künstler die klassischen Techniken der Ölmalerei, Bildhauerei und Architektur zu neuen Höhen perfektionierten und...
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Der zu seinen Lebzeiten als kontrovers geltende italienische Maler Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) hat seinen heutigen Weltruhm als hervorragender Künstler des Barock einer Wiederentdeckung im frühen 20. Jahrhundert zu verdanken. Seitdem sind die Bilder...
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Cézannes glücklichste Zeit war seine frühe Jugend in der Provence, wo er zusammen mit Zola und einem anderen Freund in der Natur umherstreifte. Ermutigt durch Renoir, stellte er 1874 und 1877 zusammen mit den Impressionisten aus. Doch die ablehnende Haltung, mit der man...
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Besides its practical uses in regions across the globe, the fan has a long history as a fashion item, with new shapes, materials, and colours constantly being created. This book portrays the most artistic examples from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The imaginative...
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) was a painter whose art has been described as a Symbolist and Proto-Expressionist. He exerted a tremendous influence on Russian avant-garde painters. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Vrubel made...
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August Macke (1887-1914) war einer der herausragendsten Künstler des deutschen Expressionismus, einer Kunstrichtung, die sich im frühen 20. Jahrhundert entwickelte und es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, die unmittelbaren emotionalen Erlebnisse zur Darstellung zu...
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Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporarySpanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an...
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Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official...
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Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá’s...
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Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the...
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Neben seinem praktischen Nutzen in Regionen rund um den Globus besitzt der Fächer eine lange Geschichte als Modeobjekt und hat immer wieder neue Formen, Materiale und Farben hervorgebracht. Dieses Buch zeigt die kunstvollsten Beispiele vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert....
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The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists.The three masters of Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, are united here for the...
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Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning “prophet”. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionised decorative painting during one of...
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Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture.Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first saw Paris, and she was still in her teens when she...
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Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He...
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From Michelangelo to Rubens, Degas and Picasso, erotic art has attracted many great masters, who created works that captivate the beholder like few others. In spite of, or maybe even because of, this attraction, erotic art has never failed to evoke controversy, and...
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Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of...
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