Although this draftsman and painter left Germany in 1933, his art continued to disturb the Nazis, who labeled him “Cultural Bolshevist Number One”, destroyed works he’d left behind, and included others in their 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition.
During the German occupation of Luxembourg, this sculptor refused to register with the Nazi Culture Guild, and participated in the National Strike of 1942; he was arrested and imprisoned in the Neumünster Abbey, which today is home to his private collection.
Which artist’s “House by the Railroad”, a gift of an anonymous donor in 1930, was the first oil painting to be acquired for the permanent collections of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art?
Which artist introduced moving parts into his work in 1931, then over the following decades created variations on this concept including “gongs”, “towers”, ”totems”, and “animobiles”?
What Hungarian-born American painter, photographer, and educator was highly influenced by Constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and science into the arts?
What influential American feminist artist, author, and educator helped establish the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s?
What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?
What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?
Which painter’s portrait of Louis XIV in his coronation costume set the image of what a state portrait should be: column and background landscape, glistening drapes, solemn pose, intense colors?
Which artist conveyed Futurism’s fascination for the energy of modern life with his own personal style, approaching pure abstraction and rendering motion by showing simultaneous aspects of a moving object?
What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?
What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?
In 1897, this painter led a group of 19 avant-garde artists that broke away from Vienna’s conservative Künstlerhaus (the main exhibition venue for contemporary art) to form a new movement: the Vienna Secession.
This sculptor’s later works included a monumental figure commemorating the bombing of Rotterdam and a monument to van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise.
What painter and sculptor settled in Paris in 1906 and rapidly established his own idiosyncratic style, with its easily recognizable elongated figures and heads, almond-shaped eyes, and simple, linear contours?
What realist artist, one of the most popular and also most lambasted in the history of American painting, created work which sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art?
What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?
What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?
Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?
Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?
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