Otto Dix refused to flatter ... Fritz Lang’s “M” (1931), and Dix, who painted this portrait. According to the doctor’s daughter (interviewed by the art historian Sabine Rewald), Mayer ...
But the treasure which is to make him rank with Mellon is Vienna’s famed Kunsthistorisches (Art History) Museum, the Louvre of Vienna. If Otto ever gets a chance to walk into his museum ...
He was a founder of Vorticism - a British art movement that grew out of Cubism. The Admiralty experimented with various camouflage ideas during WW1. They had considered similar proposals by US ...
Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...
Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...
Major social changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the rise of mass culture, women’s striving for emancipation, and the discovery of youth as a relevant demographic—spark a ...
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By Zachary Small and An Rong Xu The Jewish Museum pairs the Texas artist with a 20th-century master. Together they confront racism with horror — and humor. By Jillian Steinhauer Tamara de ...
A Russian icon of the Virgin Akhtirskaya made in Moscow between 1896 and 1908, a rare oil on window shade painting rendered circa 1950 by the renowned folk artist Clementine Hunter, and an early 19th ...
Elizabeth Otto is an art and cultural historian whose research centers on early twentieth-century visual and media culture, with a focus on Europe. An expert in modern art, Dada, surrealism, cubism ...
Otto Wilhelm Eglau (1917-1988) was a German artist born in Berlin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1947 to 1953, where he studied under painters such as Max Kaus, William ...