| Sandro
Botticelli
( c. 1445-1510)
Italian painter. Botticelli was Florentine and extremely successful
at the peak of his career, with a highly individual and graceful
style founded on the rhythmic capabilities of outline. With the
emergence of the High Renaissance style at the turn of the 16th
century, he fell out of fashion, died in obscurity and was only
returned to his position as one of the best-loved quattrocento painters
through the interest of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites. |
Paul
Gauguin
(1848, 1903)
One of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist
period, whose development of a conceptual method of representation
was a decisive step for 20th-century art.
After spending a short period with Vincent van
Gogh in Arles (1888), Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art
for expressiveness through colour.
From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti
and elsewhere in the South Pacific. His masterpieces include the
early Vision After the Sermon (1888) and Where Do We Come From?
What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98). |
Marcel
Duchamp
(1887-1968)
Who is Marcel Duchamp? „
Marcel Duchamp is the only one of all his contemporaries
who is in no way inclined to grow older. |
Medieval Stained
Glass Windows
Themes found in the sculptural repertoire
of the great French Cathedrals of this time are represented, including
the Virtues and Vices.
Even the everyday life of the citizens is reflected, in scenes from
the Life of Mary.
The windows give a unique insight into the Medieval
world, and into the technical and artistic aspects of the production
of stained glass. |
Mark
Chagall
(1887-1985)
Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble
Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall
passed a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture.
His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence
of Daumier, Jean-Franęois Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves. He was
also influenced by Cubism. Essentially a colourist, Chagall was
interested in the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the
Luminists of the Section d'Or. |
Friedensreich
Hundertwasser
(1928-2000)
Hundertwasser was already a name to be reckoned
with when I first met him in the sixties. He was an eccentric emerging
artist on the Austrian scene, a self-proclaimed continuation of
Vienna's distinguished tradition from the turn of the century. Friedrich
Hunderwasser's success in the graphic arts took an unusual turn.
His work evolved towards the enrichment and improvement of architecture.
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