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• Women Artists of MAC: Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  What critical attention that has been focused on the Movimento Arte Concreta has been on the male artists who formed the overwhelming majority of the members... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Concrete Art in Italy: Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  Concrete Art is a term applied to various abstract art movements. The term was coined by Theo van Doesburg in his 1930 Manifesto of Concrete Art. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Bittersweet Beauty: an Etching by Eduard Einschlag

  

  The elegant turn-of-the-century lady, dressed in the height of fashion, has a sad story to tell. Although this is just speculation on my part, I believe the... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Born out of His Time: Willem Linnig, Junior

  

  First of all - apologies to all readers of this blog for the long time-lapse. Life has been difficult, and I was simply unable to keep going. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY

• A Communard in Dickensian London: Auguste Lancon

  

  In 1986 I edited, with my friend Victor E. Neuburg, a collection of Charles Dickens's social criticism, under the title A December Vision. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gueules Noires: the Mining Lithographs of Theophile Alexandre Steinlen

  

  Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) is celebrated for his posters for the Chat Noir nightclub, and his lithographs of languid ladies with cats. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Felix Bracquemond and Impressionism

  

  The etcher Félix Bracquemond was a towering figure in nineteenth-century French printmaking, a fact which was recognised when in 1900 he won the Grand prix de... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Etchings of Young Goethe

  

  It's not surprising that many writers are also talented artists, and many artists also write. In some cases - David Jones is an obvious example - it's impossibl... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Rediscovering Albert Varadi

  

  I first came across the Hungarian artist Albert Váradi in the Parisian art revue Byblis. In 1924 he contributed a wonderfully raffish and dandified etched... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Tender Agony: the Tragic Fate of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Constance Mayer

  

  In his day, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823) was one of the most famous and successful artists in France. His art is poised between the strict neo-classicism... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, HISTORY

• MOPP - the Case of Max Oppenheimer

  

  The painter and printmaker Max Oppenheimer (MOPP) was born in Vienna in 1885. From 1900-1903 he studied at the Vienna Academy, and from 1903-1906 at the Prague... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Rise and Fall of the Expressionist Woodcut

  

  The woodcut is the archetypal Expressionist medium - vital, energetic, powerful. One thinks of artists such as Erich Heckel, Frans Masereel, Emil Nolde, Max... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ernst Klotz: a Case of Mistaken Identity

  

  The Leipzig painter and printmaker Ernst Klotz was born in 1863. He studied under Franz von Defregger in Munich and Carl Frithjof Smith in Weimar. In 1895-1896... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Shapes of Colour

  

  The exhibition Vormen van de kleur at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 20.11.1966-15.1.1967 was curated by W. A. L. Beeren. The exhibition title was given in... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• German and Austrian Portraits of the 1890s

  

  Because this post is a round-up of disparate artists and styles, I'm not going to give more details about the artists than their dates of birth and death. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Landscape of German Art in 1898

  

  I've recently acquired a run of the Leipzig art revue Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst from its founding in 1866 through to 1901. Especially in the 1890s, when th... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• David Hockney's Walking Man

  

  With his blockbuster exhibition at the Royal Academy, A Bigger Picture, David Hockney has achieved the almost impossible. He has got the British public excited... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Forgotten Symbolist: Alexander Frenz

  

  I really love this etching by the almost forgotten German Symbolist Alexander Frenz. Frenz seems to have drawn much of his inspiration from myth and fairytale,... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Etchings of Emil Rudolf Weiss

  

  Emil Rudolf Weiss (1875-1942) was one of those multi-talented people whose very versatility has been a hindrance to their lasting fame. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• What's in a Name? The Disappearance of Gaston Nick

  

  The painter, etcher, and wood engraver Gaston Nick was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, around 1885. He went to Paris to study art, but his career does not appear to... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE