Tag: World War I

Jean Cocteau

(1889–1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau The artist’s works: Festival de musique de Menton 1956 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland La Tour 1959 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Orphée 1960 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Works: • La Danse de Sophocle (French) •…

Max Ernst

(1891–1976) Maximilian Ethelbert Ernst The artist’s works: Dada Gauguin 1920 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Celebes 1921 Tate Britain, London Les Hommes n’en sauront rien 1923 Tate Britain, London Pietà ou La révolution la nuit 1923 Tate Britain, London Dadaville c.1924 Tate Britain, London Gala…

Egon Schiele

(1890–1918) Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele The artist’s works: Portrait of Doctor X 1910 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched 1911 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Self-Portrait 1911 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Self-Portrait with Splayed Fingers 1911 Leopold Museum, Vienna Self-Portrait with…

Maurice Ravel

(1875–1937) Joseph Maurice Ravel Works: • Boléro (1928) • Concerto pour la main gauche (1932) • Concerto pour piano en sol majeur (1932) • Daphnis et Chloé (1909-12) • Gaspard de la nuit (1908) • L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (1925)…

Gabriele D’Annunzio

(1863–1938) General Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso Works: • Cabiria (Italian) • Contemplazione della morte (Italian) • Elegìe Romane (Italian) • Forse che sì forse che no (Italian) • Il ferro (Italian) • Isaotta Guttadàuro ed altre poesie (Italian) •…

Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961) Ernest Miller Hemingway Works: • In our time (English) • Three Stories & Ten Poems (English) Born July 21 1899 Oak Park, IL (USA) Died July 2 1961 Ketchum, ID (USA) Cause of death Suicide Occupation Journalist Novelist Occupation…

Renoir (2012)

Director: Gilles Bourdos Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier Screenplay: Gilles Bourdos Based on: Le Tableau amoureux by Jacques Renoir Genre: Biography | Drama | Historical Music: Alexandre Desplat Country: France Language: French Studio: Fidélité Release date: 2012 Running time: 111 minutes Michel Bouquet (1925-2022)…

Georges Clemenceau

(1841–1929) Georges Eugène Benjamin Clemenceau Clemenceau in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Georges Clemenceau 1879–1880 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Georges Clemenceau 1879–1880 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth     Nadar (1820-1910) Georges Clemenceau s.d. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris…

Giorgio de Chirico

(1888–1978) Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico The artist’s works: Autoritratto 1912–1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York L’angoscia della partenza 1913–1914 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo La conquista del filosofo 1913–1914 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago La tour rouge 1913 Guggenheim Museum, New…

Jean Giraudoux

(1882–1944) Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux Works: • Amica America (French) • L’École des indifférents (French) • Elpénor (French) • Suzanne et le Pacifique (French) Filmography as Writer: The Madwoman of Chaillot 1969 Director: Bryan Forbes Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer  …