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Kunsthistorie / kunst- og designstiler: ca.1800-1900
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Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist's circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre's …
A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in …
An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Emile Galle (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art. His designs, referred to as "e;poetry in …
"e;I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women..."e;Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt's paintings speak …
L''Art nouveau désigne un style décoratif et architectural qui se développe dans les années 1880-1890 en Occident. Né en réaction contre les dérives de l''industrialisation et le …
In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone …
At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his …
Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by …
Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the …
Zur Zeit des viktorianischen Englands, getrieben von der Industriellen Revolution, hatte die Gruppe der Präraffaeliten, darunter Maler wie John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel …