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Alfons Mucha by Rogasch, Wilfried
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, when poster designer, Art Nouveau book illustrator, designer, photographer, and painter Alfons Mucha traveled to the United States to take up a teaching position, he was greeted with great enthusiasm. One of the most important representatives of Jugendstil, Muc ...Show more
Florine Stettheimer by Karin Althaus; Susanne Böller
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
When the Museum of Modern Art sent its first exhibition to Europe, Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) joined Georgia O'Keeffe as the only women included. Stettheimer's sensuous paintings and eccentric poetry earned her a place at the heart of the modernist avant-garde. The guest lists for her extravagant N ...Show more
Gustav Klimt by Wilfried Rogasch
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
An overview of Gustav Klimt's life and work commemorating the 160th anniversary of the artist's birth. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is an artist particularly associated with Viennese Jugendstil and the "Golden Age." As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession ...Show more
Hermann Stenner - A Pioneer of German Expressionism by Christoph Wagner
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
An intimate and bibliophilic artist monograph of the German Expressionist Hermann Stenner. Hermann Stenner (1891-1914) was one of the most remarkable talents of the twentieth century. His promising career was cut short death by his death in battle in World War I when he was twenty-three. Stenner's body ...Show more
Paul Cézanne by Christoph Wagner
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
His paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence, the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast of southern France. More than any other artist, Paul Cézanne, the "Father of Modernism", captured the light and the play of colours of the South in his pictures and lent ...Show more
Paula Modersohn-Becker by Frank Laukötter
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artist friends examined her extensive estate a few weeks after her death in 1907, they were overwhelmed. Only gradually did they realize that in the painter, dead at thirty-one, they had had an outstanding artist in their midst. Today Modersohn-Becker is regarded as one of ...Show more
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