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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Relief rectangulaire, cercles découpés, rondelles sur tiges, 1963
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - February 06, 2023 08:35 - 2 minutes - VideoSophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important representatives of Classical Modernism and is considered a pioneer of abstraction.
Joseph Anton Koch, The Wetterhorn, 1824
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - February 01, 2023 12:44 - 2 minutes - VideoJoseph Anton Koch was known for his landscapes, for he did not show nature as a lovely idyll as usual, but as eerily beautiful.
Carl Blechen, The ruins of the Septizonium on the Palatine in Rome, The Capuchin monastery near Amalfi, Sea study, 1829
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - February 01, 2023 12:41 - 2 minutes - VideoWith his landscapes depicting the fleeting and atmospheric, Carl Blechen was a pioneer of plein-air painting in German art.
Anton Graff, The artist's family in front of the portrait of Johann Georg Sulzer, 1785
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - February 01, 2023 12:38 - 2 minutes - VideoAnton Graff was the most important portraitist of the German Enlightenment and stood out with his individual portrayal of each person.
Alberto Giacometti, The Glade, 1950
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:44 - 2 minutes - VideoAlberto Giacometti was in Geneva during the Second World War. In 1945 he returned to Paris. His old studio was still intact and he could have simply continued working.
Giorgio Morandi, Still Lifes and Landscape, 1961
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:43 - 2 minutes - VideoSecluded, Giorgio Morandi lived and worked in Bologna. He specialized in still lifes on small format canvases.
Hans Arp, Skeleton, 1928
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:41 - 2 minutes - VideoThe Alsace artist, Hans Arp, had already played a central role as artist and poet in the Dadaist movements in Zürich and Paris. Humour and irony also characterised his later work, especially the reliefs.
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1934-1939
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:40 - 1 minute - VideoIn 1926 Alexander Calder left America and went to Paris where the most important new artists of the time were working. His encounter with the Dutchman Piet Mondrian was groundbreaking.
Giorgio de Chirico, Self-Portrait, 1924
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:37 - 2 minutes - VideoThe Italian Giorgio de Chirico painted his mysterious pictures in Paris before the First World War. He called his art “Pittura metafisica,” a style that had great influence on European painting.
Juan Gris, Pierrot, 1919
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:36 - 2 minutes - VideoThe presence of Cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque was exceptionally strong even before the First World War. The Spaniard Juan Gris discovered the foundations of his work within them, but nevertheless developed his own, quite individual style, which led him to a strictly classical pictorial d...
Georges Braque, Still Life with Guitar, 1919
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:32 - 2 minutes - VideoIn the years preceding the First World War Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso developed cubism.This was a new type of portrayal of reality.
Fernand Léger, The Balcony, 1914
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:29 - 2 minutes - VideoFernand Léger was not a painter of finely nuanced colour tones like Robert Delaunay, and he also wasn’t a strict Cubist like Braque and Picasso. Léger was a painter of expressive contrasts: colour, line and form come into direct conflict in his pictures.
Robert Delaunay, The Windows Giving over the Town, 1912
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:27 - 2 minutes - VideoRobert Delaunay painted numerous views of Paris. The view of the city through a window is the subject of a series of pictures that he painted in 1912.
Pierre Bonnard, The Orange Light Shade, 1908
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:25 - 2 minutes - VideoAlongside Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard became the leading painter of intimate interiors at the beginning of the 20th century. They had a mutual interest in the refined use of colour in the rooms.
Eduard Vuillard, Woman Reading, 1910
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:23 - 2 minutes - VideoAll his life Edouard Vuillard’s studio was in the apartment that he shared with his mother. Life and painting were closely related and his choice of models was no exception.
Edouard Vuillard, Grandmother and Child, 1899
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:21 - 2 minutes - VideoIn around 1890 some young painters came together under the name of the “Nabis,” among them were, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard. They sought new ideas for the art of painting.
Odilon Redon, Alsace or Reading Monk, ca. 1914
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:18 - 2 minutes - VideoOdilon Redon was one of the great loners among French painters. His path was set apart from Realism and Impressionism.
Auguste Rodin, Pierre de Wissant (Nude), ca. 1885-1887
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:15 - 2 minutes - VideoIn around 1900 the sculpture underwent profound changes; both material and space were treated in a new way. One of the great innovators in this was Auguste Rodin.
Camille Pissarro, Mardi Gras, Sunset, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - November 21, 2019 12:13 - 2 minutes - VideoCamille Pissarro was one of the pioneering Impressionist painters.
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portraits of the couple Isaac-Louis and Julie de Thellusson, 1760
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:26 - 2 minutes - VideoPastel painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Europe in the 18th century.
Ferdinand Hodler, The Grand Muveran, 1912
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:24 - 1 minute - VideoAt the beginning of the 20th century Hodler developed into one of the few great independent landscape artists in Europe. For more than a decade he occupied himself with motifs from the mountain and lake landscape of Switzerland.
Ferdinand Hodler, View into Infinity, 1913/1914–1916
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:24 - 2 minutes - VideoView into Infinity resulted from a comissioned work for the stairwell of the Kunsthaus Zürich, which took years to complete.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ascending Youth, 1913, and Woman in Deep Meditation, 1913–1914
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:23 - 2 minutes - VideoAt the beginning of the 20th-century Paris wasn’t only the city of leading painters but also the city of great sculptors. Rodin, Maillol, Medardo Rosso.
Max Beckmann, Woman Dressed in White Slip (Reading), 1947
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:23 - 2 minutes - VideoThe German painter Max Beckmann spent the Second World War in exile in Amsterdam. When the first ship set sail again he emigrated to the USA.
Caspar Wolf, The Lower Grindelwald Glacier with Lütschine and the Mettenberg, 1774
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:12 - 2 minutes - VideoShaped by new knowledge of the mountains, which now were being explored and researched, with his unique view of the powerful natural setting, Caspar Wolf set a landmark in European landscape painting.
Adolph von Menzel, The Anhalter Railway Station by Moonlight, around 1846
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:11 - 2 minutes - VideoWith his Biedermeier view through the window upon the industrial motif, Menzel characterises the industrial era as a revolution and a threat.
Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1818
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 18, 2019 07:10 - 2 minutes - VideoWith its almost completely abandoned spatial depth and its flat strictness, chalk cliffs on Rügen is one of Friedrich’s most radical compositions. At the same time, it belongs to the most colourful and most festive paintings of this deeply melancholic painter.
Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with waterfall, 1670 / 1675
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 17, 2019 12:42 - 2 minutes - VideoJacob van Ruisdael was one of the most innovative European landscape painters. He belonged to the first painters who regarded the landscape as a mirror of life and transience.
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Roemer, 1637
KMW | Reinhart am Stadtgarten EN - October 17, 2019 12:41 - 2 minutes - VideoStill Life with Roemer, painted by Pieter Claesz. in 1637, is one of the highlights of our remarkable collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings.
Claude Monet, Low Tide (Varengeville), 1882
KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN - May 23, 2013 07:21 - 2 minutes - VideoDuring his search for appropriate motifs Claude Monet moved to Normandy in the winter of 1882.
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