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Max Beckmann -- Self-Portrait in Tuxedo -- 1927

#Art MaxBeckmann #GermanArt #1920s #SelfPortrait #WeimarRepublic

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Max Beckmann -- Self-Portrait in Tuxedo -- 1927

#Art MaxBeckmann #GermanArt #1920s #SelfPortrait #WeimarRepublic

The Visit - Couple and Newcomer -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Oil on canvas -- 1922 -- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

#Art #Painting #ErnstKirchner #Kirchner #GermanArt #20thCentury #TheVisit

The Visit - Couple and Newcomer -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Oil on canvas -- 1922 -- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

#Art #Painting #ErnstKirchner #Kirchner #GermanArt #20thCentury #TheVisit

Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky

Max Frey, 'Fight With A Dragon'. #Dragon #Legend #monster #Symbolism #GermanArt #artsky

"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

"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

Max Beckmann -- Pensive woman on the seafront -- 1937-- Bremen Kunsthalle -- Photo; Jean Louis Mazieres -- CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

#Art #Painting #GermanArt #20thCentury #MaxBeckmann #1930s

Max Beckmann -- Pensive woman on the seafront -- 1937-- Bremen Kunsthalle -- Photo; Jean Louis Mazieres -- CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

#Art #Painting #GermanArt #20thCentury #MaxBeckmann #1930s

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

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

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
#WeimarRepublic

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
#WeimarRepublic

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

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

"Gate in the Rocks," Karl Freidrich Schinkel, 1818.

Schinkle (1781-1841) was a painter, of course, but also an architect, urban planner, and a designer of furniture and theatrical sets. One of his set designs was the oft-reproduced starry set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which you've probably seen somewhere. He also helped chape Berlin from being a small provincial city to a major capitol.

As an architect, he mostly worked in a Neoclassical style until turning to Neo-Gothic in his later life; artistically, he was solidly a Romantic. This dramatic canvas seems to have been influenced by a trip to Friulia, a region of Italy by the German border. If it looks anything like this, I want to go.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #KarlFriedrichSchindel

"Gate in the Rocks," Karl Freidrich Schinkel, 1818.

Schinkle (1781-1841) was a painter, of course, but also an architect, urban planner, and a designer of furniture and theatrical sets. One of his set designs was the oft-reproduced starry set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which you've probably seen somewhere. He also helped chape Berlin from being a small provincial city to a major capitol.

As an architect, he mostly worked in a Neoclassical style until turning to Neo-Gothic in his later life; artistically, he was solidly a Romantic. This dramatic canvas seems to have been influenced by a trip to Friulia, a region of Italy by the German border. If it looks anything like this, I want to go.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #KarlFriedrichSchindel

"Caesar at the Rubicon," Wilhelm Trübner, 1878.

Trübner (1851-1917) was a German Realist painter. Although never a major name (many of his paintings were too somber to really be popular) he did achieve a few humorous paintings with his dog, Caesar, that have endured.

He also did a lot to advance the idea of "art for art's sake," that is that a work of art should not just depict something beautiful, but be beautiful in and of itself, and that art should be free of utilitarian and didactic concerns. This was a reaction to a generation of artists who felt their art had to have a message and make a stand.

Eh...there's more than enough room for both, I say.

From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

#Art #GermanArt #Realism #DogsOfMastodon #WilhelmTrubner #ArtForArtsSake

"Caesar at the Rubicon," Wilhelm Trübner, 1878.

Trübner (1851-1917) was a German Realist painter. Although never a major name (many of his paintings were too somber to really be popular) he did achieve a few humorous paintings with his dog, Caesar, that have endured.

He also did a lot to advance the idea of "art for art's sake," that is that a work of art should not just depict something beautiful, but be beautiful in and of itself, and that art should be free of utilitarian and didactic concerns. This was a reaction to a generation of artists who felt their art had to have a message and make a stand.

Eh...there's more than enough room for both, I say.

From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

#Art #GermanArt #Realism #DogsOfMastodon #WilhelmTrubner #ArtForArtsSake

"Samson and Delilah," Max Liebermann, 1902.

Liebermann (1847-1935) was a brilliant artist at a horrible time. He was a leading proponent of German Impressionism, was a leader of the Berlin Secession, an influential avant-garde art movement, but late in life, at the height of his artistic power, his work was dropped by major galleries because he was Jewish, and later all work by Jewish artists was banned.

He died of natural causes, but his paintings, as well as his personal collection, were looted by the Nazis. Liebermann's heirs are still struggling to reclaim his property.

This version of the story is interesting; Liebermann presents it as a modern battle of the sexes, without reference to any sort of Biblical setting.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #JewishArtists #BannedByTheThirdReich #LootedByTheThirdReich #MaxLiebermann

"Samson and Delilah," Max Liebermann, 1902.

Liebermann (1847-1935) was a brilliant artist at a horrible time. He was a leading proponent of German Impressionism, was a leader of the Berlin Secession, an influential avant-garde art movement, but late in life, at the height of his artistic power, his work was dropped by major galleries because he was Jewish, and later all work by Jewish artists was banned.

He died of natural causes, but his paintings, as well as his personal collection, were looted by the Nazis. Liebermann's heirs are still struggling to reclaim his property.

This version of the story is interesting; Liebermann presents it as a modern battle of the sexes, without reference to any sort of Biblical setting.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #JewishArtists #BannedByTheThirdReich #LootedByTheThirdReich #MaxLiebermann

"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

"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

@Vagrarian
“There werewolf... (Other side). There werewolf...”

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.

Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.

The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.

Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.

The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1823-35.

Happy birthday to Caspar David Friedrich, born this day in 1774!

He was THE great Romantic artist, often doing allegorical paintings of human figures contemplating some natural scene that dwarfs them...or maybe Gothic ruins (because, after all, Gothicism is an outgrowth of Romanticism).

Here he's got a small human figure pausing by the side of a lake in a dramatic mountain landscape. If you squint a little, you can make out a large building on the other side of the lake, perhaps a palace of some sort (just over the man's head) but it's overwhelmed in size and majesty by the lake and the mountains. This is Friedrich's message...that Nature will always be bigger than Man.

His tragedy was that he outlived his fame; his style went out of fashion and when he died in 1840, he was lonely and half-forgotten. But in modern times he's been rediscovered and his art revived...especially as it's now in public domain and has been used as cover art for various editions of Gothic novels and the like. His dramatic views help set the tone.

From a private collection.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #landscape

"Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1823-35.

Happy birthday to Caspar David Friedrich, born this day in 1774!

He was THE great Romantic artist, often doing allegorical paintings of human figures contemplating some natural scene that dwarfs them...or maybe Gothic ruins (because, after all, Gothicism is an outgrowth of Romanticism).

Here he's got a small human figure pausing by the side of a lake in a dramatic mountain landscape. If you squint a little, you can make out a large building on the other side of the lake, perhaps a palace of some sort (just over the man's head) but it's overwhelmed in size and majesty by the lake and the mountains. This is Friedrich's message...that Nature will always be bigger than Man.

His tragedy was that he outlived his fame; his style went out of fashion and when he died in 1840, he was lonely and half-forgotten. But in modern times he's been rediscovered and his art revived...especially as it's now in public domain and has been used as cover art for various editions of Gothic novels and the like. His dramatic views help set the tone.

From a private collection.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #landscape

"Geroldsauer Valley Close to Baden-Baden," Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855.

Schirmer (1807-1863) started as a painter of historical scenes, but later found his calling as a landscape painter, one of the founding members of what was later known as the Dusseldorf School. His work embraced both Classicism and Romanticism, and also included Biblical scenes.

Here we have a real-life valley in Germany, depicts an early morning in that golden time of late summer/early fall. A woman with a parasol and a young man (lower right) are wandering, taking in the air. Below us stretches a vista of farm fields, trees, and scattered houses, including a mill. A road stretches through the valley, following a stream. In the distance we have various peaks of the Black Forest mountains, realistically depicted.

I love this scene; it reminds me so much of the Appalachian scenery of my home.

From the Staatsliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #JohannWilhelmSchirmer #Landscapes #Drama #Mountains #Nostalgia

"Geroldsauer Valley Close to Baden-Baden," Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855.

Schirmer (1807-1863) started as a painter of historical scenes, but later found his calling as a landscape painter, one of the founding members of what was later known as the Dusseldorf School. His work embraced both Classicism and Romanticism, and also included Biblical scenes.

Here we have a real-life valley in Germany, depicts an early morning in that golden time of late summer/early fall. A woman with a parasol and a young man (lower right) are wandering, taking in the air. Below us stretches a vista of farm fields, trees, and scattered houses, including a mill. A road stretches through the valley, following a stream. In the distance we have various peaks of the Black Forest mountains, realistically depicted.

I love this scene; it reminds me so much of the Appalachian scenery of my home.

From the Staatsliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #JohannWilhelmSchirmer #Landscapes #Drama #Mountains #Nostalgia

Erfurt is one of my favorite towns in Germany. Its center is like a sofisticated cake 🍰🧁 When I’m going there, I always make lots of photos to use them later as references for the paintings.

Erfurt Altstadt, Gouache #mastoart #gouache #erfurt #altstadt #landscapeart #landscape #germanart #SmallPainting

Erfurt is one of my favorite towns in Germany. Its center is like a sofisticated cake 🍰🧁 When I’m going there, I always make lots of photos to use them later as references for the paintings.

Erfurt Altstadt, Gouache #mastoart #gouache #erfurt #altstadt #landscapeart #landscape #germanart #SmallPainting

Hermann Groeber, 1920 - Sonntagnachmittag, öl auf karton 89x63cm

*On dirait qu'ils vont voter non ?

#painting #germanpainting #germanart #HermanGreober #germany #folklore

The Bewitched Mill
1913
Franz Marc
German, 1880–1916

Art Institute of Chicago

Marc was killed in the First World War, which also put an effective end to his and other expressionist artists' attempts to re-enchant modernity.

#Art #GermanArt #Expressionism #FranzMarc

The Bewitched Mill
1913
Franz Marc
German, 1880–1916

Art Institute of Chicago

Marc was killed in the First World War, which also put an effective end to his and other expressionist artists' attempts to re-enchant modernity.

#Art #GermanArt #Expressionism #FranzMarc

Lovis Corinth, 1902 - Charlotte Berend-Corinth

#lovis corinth #germanart #portrait #1900s #BerlinerSecession

Lovis Corinth, 1902 - Charlotte Berend-Corinth

#lovis corinth #germanart #portrait #1900s #BerlinerSecession

Donald Kuspit on Dix as a radical traditionalist and critic of capitalism.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/otto-dix3-24-10.asp

#OttoDix #GermanArt

Informative blog post about Dix in Stuttgart.

http://www.artbouillon.com/2014/07/dix-in-stuttgart.html

#OttoDix
#GermanArt
#Stuttgart

Otto Dix -- Triumph of Death -- 1934

This pictorial meeting of the German 20th century with the Northern Renaissance made a deep impression on me when I saw it in Stuttgart years ago.

#OttoDix #GermanArt #Stuttgart

Ludgate Hill, London (1884) by Wilhelm Trübner (German artist, lived 1851–1917).

#CentralLondon #Victorian #London #StPauls #Coaches #VictorianArt #Germanartist #Germanart #Streetscape #Railway

At the Start I Almost Wanted to Despair and I Thought I Would Never Bear It (1885) by Carl Probst (German artist, lived 1854-1924). I wonder what is on her mind? 🤔

#victorian #victorianart #victorianartist #fashion #fashionhistory #Germanart #Germanartist

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

Antarasis is bound to have a shit start into her day at what she thought was an abandoned industrial complex. There is this strange intruder to her lair and he seems to loose all his manners around dragons.

#comic #cyborg #dragon #mastoart #fediart #anthro #scalie #furry #illustration #germanart

Painting based on this weird building we saw in the Netherlands on a cycling tour.

I exaggerated the height a bit, but you can see for yourself in the ref how it still sticks up above the trees - and we were quite far away! I wonder what this building is for. It has such an unusual shape that you'd think it belongs in the water.

#netherlands #germanart #mastoart #fediart #illustration

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#artraffle #raffle #mastoart #fediart #OC #furry #scalie #anthro #germanartists #germanart

The Art Newspaper: More than 20,000 "degenerate" works were seized from German museums and sold on in an operation orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels—now the institutions want them back

📰 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/germanys-museums-buy-back-degenerate-artworks-purged-by-the-nazis

#fz_links #ArtHistory #EgonSchiele #GermanArt #GermanExpressionism