Art Stories
One Year After the Nazis Branded Kirchner Degenerate and Seized More Than 600 of His Works, the Painter of Czardas Dancers Took His Own Life
In 1937 the Nazi regime confiscated more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and mocked him in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. One year later, the co-founder of...
One Year After the Nazis Branded Kirchner Degenerate and Seized More Than 600 of His Works, the Painter of Czardas Dancers Took His Own Life
In 1937 the Nazi regime confiscated more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and mocked him in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. One year later, the co-founder of...
Norway's First Great Landscape Painter Made This Moonlit View of Dresden While Sharing a House With Caspar David Friedrich
In 1839 Johan Christian Dahl, the founder of Norwegian landscape painting, completed View of Dresden by Moonlight while living under the same roof as Caspar David Friedrich. This article traces...
Norway's First Great Landscape Painter Made This Moonlit View of Dresden While Sharing a House With Caspar David Friedrich
In 1839 Johan Christian Dahl, the founder of Norwegian landscape painting, completed View of Dresden by Moonlight while living under the same roof as Caspar David Friedrich. This article traces...
Goya Designed This Image of a Boy Riding a Ram as a Tapestry Cartoon for the Spanish Royal Palace
In 1786, newly appointed painter to the Spanish king, Goya designed Boy on a Ram as a tapestry cartoon for the dining room of the Palace of El Pardo. This...
Goya Designed This Image of a Boy Riding a Ram as a Tapestry Cartoon for the Spanish Royal Palace
In 1786, newly appointed painter to the Spanish king, Goya designed Boy on a Ram as a tapestry cartoon for the dining room of the Palace of El Pardo. This...
Gustav Klimt Left This Painting of a Cradle Unfinished on His Easel When He Died in 1918
When Gustav Klimt died in Vienna on 6 February 1918, an almost-finished painting of an infant buried in patterned quilts still sat in his studio. Baby (Cradle) became his final...
Gustav Klimt Left This Painting of a Cradle Unfinished on His Easel When He Died in 1918
When Gustav Klimt died in Vienna on 6 February 1918, an almost-finished painting of an infant buried in patterned quilts still sat in his studio. Baby (Cradle) became his final...
The Man Who Designed the Statue of Liberty Painted the American Plains During His Trip Across the United States
In 1871, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi crossed the United States by rail to promote the Statue of Liberty project. Along the way he painted the open country of the Midwest. This...
The Man Who Designed the Statue of Liberty Painted the American Plains During His Trip Across the United States
In 1871, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi crossed the United States by rail to promote the Statue of Liberty project. Along the way he painted the open country of the Midwest. This...
This Grotesque Portrait of an Old Woman Is Believed to Have Inspired the Ugly Duchess in Alice in Wonderland
Around 1513, Quentin Metsys painted An Old Woman, a satirical portrait so memorable that John Tenniel reused her face for the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This article traces...
This Grotesque Portrait of an Old Woman Is Believed to Have Inspired the Ugly Duchess in Alice in Wonderland
Around 1513, Quentin Metsys painted An Old Woman, a satirical portrait so memorable that John Tenniel reused her face for the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This article traces...