Tag: Germany

Two figures without gender. Chimeras (1933)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Two figures without gender. Chimeras 1933 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Two figures without gender. Chimeras are a complex motif on several levels. The chimera already turns out to be a complex…

Paul Klee

(1879–1940) The artist’s works: Night Feast 1921 Guggenheim Museum, New York Red Balloon 1922 Guggenheim Museum, New York Hat, Lady and Little Table 1932 Guggenheim Museum, New York Born December 18 1879 Münchenbuchsee (Switzerland) Died June 29 1940 Muralto (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Printmaker

The Artist’s Wife on the Ottoman (1873)

Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902) The Artist’s Wife on the Ottoman (Luise Scholderer auf der Ottomane) 1873 Oil on canvas, 69 × 82 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt The artist’s wife is facing sideways towards the viewer and is looking at him in half-profile. Scholderer…

Portrait of a Woman (1525-1527)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Woman 1525–1527 Oil on wood, 35.9 × 25.1 cm National Gallery, London Cranach only painted a handful of portraits showing women of the Saxon court during his time as court painter to the…

Street in Cologne (first half of the 1600s)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Street in Cologne first half of the 1600s Oil on wood panel, 30 x 36 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage in 1814; formerly in the collection of Josephine de Beauharnais in the Castle…

Portrait of Luther (1532-1533)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Luther 1532–1533 Oil on panel, 19.5 x 14 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol     Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin…

Wassily Kandinsky

(1866–1944) Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky The artist’s works: Munich c.1901–1902 Guggenheim Museum, New York The Blue Rider 1903 Private collection, Zürich Cossacks 1910–1911 Tate Britain, London Landscape with Two Poplars 1912 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Painting with Green Center 1913 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago…

Fleur coquillage (1927)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Fleur coquillage (Flower-Shell) 1927 Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid The present Flower-Shell belongs to a set of canvases on the same theme executed between 1927 and 1929, when Max Ernst was…