Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Freundlich
The works of Otto Freundlich reflect the prevalence of geometric abstraction among Western European artists in the period between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). His ...
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Artist Birthday: Michael Graves
Michael Graves was a leading proponent of revival of ornament and classical forms in architecture that was a key to the Postmodernism movement in architecture and design. Out the window was the Intern ...
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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz
Unequaled among the German Expressionists are the gritty, powerfully heart-felt drawings, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz. Much of her subject matter concerned working class women, mot ...
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Artist Birthday: Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis was a pioneering African American and woman artist, at a time when it was difficult for either to get an arts education. Lewis skillfully learned the style that was dear to American patr ...
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Artist Birthday: Barbara Chase-Riboud
The tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
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Artist Birthday: Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter who helped popularize the still life genre in Spanish Baroque painting. Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art were greatly influenced by th ...
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Artist Birthday: Ferdinand Bol
Ferdinand Bol was one of the outstanding history, portrait and still life painters to emerge from the studio of Rembrandt (1606–1669). In addition, he carried on the excellent development of the ...
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Artist Birthday: Jimmy Ernst
Jimmy Ernst was the son of pioneering German Surrealist artist Max Ernst. In the late 1940s he emerged as a major force in American Abstract Expressionism. ...
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Artist Birthday: James M. Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an artist, illustrator, and comic book artist. He is perhaps best known for his poster designs for World War I (1914–1918) in which he created by far, the most iconic ...
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