Frauhaus: Gunta Stölzl and the Women of the Bauhaus
The women of Bauhaus, attracted to the school by a lie, were marginalized by their male masters and forced into a single workshop. Under the...
Geoffrey Bunting 19 September 2022
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Prost! Oktoberfest in Paintings
Oktoberfest, as the name suggests, is a traditional German beer festival held annually in October. Last year, the festival was unfortunately...
Magda Michalska 17 September 2022
6 Shades of Romantic Creepiness in Caspar David Friedrich’s Paintings
Caspar David Friedrich was a master of Romantic atmosphere. Gothic ruins, contemplative figures silhouetted against skies and morning mists were his...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2022
10 Most Famous Works by Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich’s works changed the face of landscape painting with his intense and emotional focus on nature and he became a key member...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2022
Masterpiece Story: Abbey in the Oakwood by Caspar David Friedrich
Sadness and desolation fill this scene like an oppressive melancholy. The sun is dying behind the horizon as fog enshrouds the ground. Skeletal trees...
James W Singer 5 September 2022
Masterpiece Story: Sailboats by Lyonel Feninger
Cubism – the word instantly evokes images of Picasso and his figures with multiple noses. However, there is more than just Picasso who excels in...
James W Singer 26 August 2022
Franz Marc: The Painter Who Loved Horses
The German Expressionist movement had many faces. One of the most interesting of them was that of the painter Franz Marc. Marc looked to the natural...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 August 2022
Aesthetics of Totalitarian States’ Architecture
People include the architecture of 20th century dictatorships in the category of totalitarian art. Totalitarian architecture invokes a feeling of...
Diana Sadretdinova 22 August 2022
Mastering Details: Heads and Hands in Käthe Kollwitz’s Art
The focus of Käthe Kollwitz’s art is the human being. Above all, a compassionate, humane outlook is characteristic of her approach. She was mainly...
Petra Dragasevic 4 August 2022
Masterpiece Story: Molecule Man by Jonathan Borofsky
Jonathan Borofsky’s monumental aluminum sculpture, Molecule Man, towers over the Berlin skyline at 30 meters (100 feet). Standing in a region...
Nadine Waldmann 26 July 2022
Making Art Out of Anything: Christoph Niemann’s Illustrations
A pair of bananas could become a horse or a poppy seeds bun could be stubble being shaved – you never know with Christoph Niemann and his...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 25 July 2022
The Mystery of Dürer’s Magic Square
Many strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 July 2022
