#germanart — Public Fediverse posts
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Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky
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Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky
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Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky
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Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky
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"IMG_9909 Max Beckmann. 1884-1950. Reclining Woman with Pinks. Femme couchée avec des roses. vers 1941. Hannover. Sprengel Museum." by jean louis mazieres is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
#Art #Painting #MaxBeckmann #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #1940s
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Max Beckmann -- Pensive woman on the seafront -- 1937-- Bremen Kunsthalle -- Photo; Jean Louis Mazieres -- CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Max Beckmann -- Quappi in Armchair -- Crayon and chalk on paper -- 1927 -- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
I've only learnt of this picture recently.
I've fallen so madly in love with it that I can't put into words why I love it so much.#Art #GermanArt #MaxBeckmann #Quappi #Drawing #1920s #20thCenturyArt
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George Grosz -- Pillars Of Society -- Oil on canvas -- 1926 -- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
I'm probably in the company of many here in being familiar with this pictorial indictment of the capitalist Germany of the mid twenties.
I can't make up my mind whether the unforgettable imagery is or was politically effective as a powerful agent and sustainer of radicalization, or whether, on the other hand, it is or was so overwhelmingly and indiscriminately polemical as to leave viewers in a state of general disgust about their society and ultimately in a state of demobilising despair about the possibility of change for the better.
#Art #Painting #PoliticalArt
#GeorgeGrosz #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #NeueSachlichkeit
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CW: Female nudity -- sexual activity
Christian Schad -- Two Girls -- 1928 -- Oil on Canvas -- Private Collection
Another picture from the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" that struck me was Christian Schad's 1928 "Two Girls".
The catalogue entry claims that the picture would "descend into gross pornography" were the figure in the foreground to be shown looking at the viewer.
Rather than enter into a moralistic and unproductive discussion of this claim, I would rather consider whether the picture shows a couple's intimacy or the self- absorption of two isolated individuals.
#Art #Painting #Portrait
#ChristianSchad #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #NeueSachlichkeit
#Verism #Gay #Homosexual #Lesbian
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The Jeweller Karl Krall -- Otto Dix -- 1923 -- Oil on canvas -- Kunst und Museumsverien im Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.
According to the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s", Krall was not only, as a chamber music amateur, musical, but was also "musical", to use the term used in 1920s British English to describe gay men.
The catalogue entry suggests that beneath Krall's jacket, "there must be a corset that is much too tight. Severe discomfort makes the blood rush to Krall's face, turning it purple-red with bluish accents. Veins on his forehead seem ready to pop."
As with so many of the other portraits, I find myself fascinated by this picture. Is Dix's depiction of the hour glass figured jeweller a frank depiction of Krall's style in foundation garments, or does it function as the painter's possibly contemptuous verdict on male homosexuality?
#Art #Painting #Portrait #OttoDix #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #NeueSachlichkeit #KarlKrall #Gay #Homosexual #Homophobia #Corset #TightWaisting #WeimarRepublic
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"Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin," Carl Gustav Carus, c. 1828.
German-born Carus (1789-1869) wasn't just an artist...he was also a doctor, naturalist, scientist, and psychologist, and he studied landscape painting under the great Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, whose influence can be seen here.
He was personal physician to King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and traveled with him to meet Queen Victoria. As a naturalist, he originated the notion of vertebrates vs. invertebrates, gently revolutionizing biology. He was also a prolific author, writing books on zoology, nature, medicine, psychology, travel, and art theory.
Here we have a scene from inside a ruined monastery, built in 1369 and abandoned in 1546, and which became a favorite haunt of the Romantics in the 1820s. Despite the Gothic material, the feeling it gives is almost positive and hopeful, looking through the ruins to a new day.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CarlGustaveCarus #Gothic #Ruins #RenaissanceMan
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In honor of the Opiliones that years ago entered the kitchen & climbed the counter - to eat Schnitzel crumbs! It rotated a crumb like a cob of corn.
#arachnid #opiliones #harvestman #schnitzel #germanartists #germanart #art #mastoart #fediart
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
(German, 1880 – 1938)
Artiste (Marcella)
1910