(English)The German painter and graphic artist George Grosz (1893-1959) was the most outstanding caricaturist and political satirist of the period after World War I. George Grosz was born on July 26, 1893, in Berlin. He studied at the art academies of Dresden (1909) and Berlin (1911) and visited Paris (1913). He started his career as a cartoonist for humoristic reviews …
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Bilbao 1889 – 1956, fue un pintor español, uno de los fundadores de la Asociación de Artistas Vascos, que presidió en 1917. Nacido en el seno de una familia de comerciantes, Guezala comenzó en su ciudad natal estudios de comercio, que continuó en Francia y Gran Bretaña. Debido a la fuerte oposición paterna, fue un artista prácticamente autodidacta. La pintura …
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Roma 1891 – Venezia 1984, è stato un pittore, poeta e saggista italiano.Da giovane Virgilio Guidi segue i corsi dell’Istituto Tecnico a Roma, appassionato di geometria e disegno. Per coltivare quest’ultima vocazione segue anche i corsi serali della Scuola libera di pittura. Nel 1908 abbandona l’Istituto Tecnico e va a far pratica di pittura nella bottega del restauratore e decoratore …
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(English)Lajos Kassák was born in the small village of Ersekujvár, Hungary, on 21 March 1887. After only a few years at school, he served an apprenticeship as a locksmith. Lajos Kassák then became a metal worker in Györ and Budapest.At the age of twenty, Kassák began to teach himself painting and to write poetry. In 1915 he founded the revolutionary …
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(English)Born in 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner studied architecture and painting before forming the artists’ group Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) in Dresden on 7 June 1905, with Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911, and within two years the group split. Kirchner worked at a feverish pace, producing art that drew its subject matter from …
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Venezia, 1904 – Rovereto 1988, è stato un pittore italiano. Dopo essere stato allievo di Ettore Tito, nel 1922 aderì al Futurismo creando lavori di puri ritmi astratti (vedi “Rumore di locomotiva, 1922). Allievo di E. Tito all’Accademia di belle arti, il K. ben presto prese le distanze dalla lezione stilistica del maestro. Già a diciotto anni, infatti, l’incontro con …
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(English)Opočno, 1871-Puteaux, 1957. Frantisˇek Kupka, one of the pioneers of abstraction, was born in a small town in east Bohemia and trained as an artist in Prague and Vienna. He settled in Paris in 1896, earning his living as an illustrator for a time. In the French capital he found an environment that was more conducive to the development of his …
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(Spanish)Ciudad Rodrigo 1891 – Sevilla 1966, fue un pintor español expresionista de la primera generación de la Escuela de París. Desde su Ciudad Rodrigo natal, se marchó a Madrid para formar parte del taller de uno de los mejores escultores del momento, Miguel Blay. Durante 1910 y 1911 visitó Barcelona. Más tarde estudió escultura en París en 1911 aconsejado por …
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(English)Born 1881 in Tiraspol. He was the son of Fiodor Mikhailovich Larionov, a doctor and a pharmacist, and Aleksandra Fiodorovna Petrovskaia, but he grew up in his grandparents’ home in Tiraspol. He attended the Voskresenskii Technical High School in Moscow and in 1898 entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. Here he …
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(English)Bácsborsod, 1895-Chicago, 1946. The Hungarian-born painter László Moholy-Nagy was a leading figure in twentieth-century art for his experiments with light and time, which were widely disseminated through his work as an educator first in Europe and later in the United States. Moholy-Nagy discovered painting after being wounded in the First World War and from this point onwards experimented unceasingly with all …
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