Grete Waldau was a German painter and mural artist who specialized in architectural painting. [1] Some of her works were owned by Carol I, the king of Romania, and Wilhelm II, the German emperor.
Grete Waldau was a German painter and mural artist who specialized in architectural painting. [1] Some of her works were owned by Carol I, the king of Romania, and Wilhelm II, the German emperor.
Waldau was born on 14 March 1868 in Breslau, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, now known as Wroclaw, Poland. [2] [1] She attended an art academy in Breslau, and later traveled to Nuremberg to study under an architectural painter. [1] She studied under Berlin artists Karl Wilhelm Streckfuss and Carl Graeb. [2] Around 1889, she made architectural pieces for the decoration of Geheimrat Heimann's villa dining room in Breslau. [3]
A painting she made depicting Lorenz Church in Nuremberg was owned by the King of Romania, Carol I. She painted murals on the interior of the Oldenburg post office, for which she received a gold medal in art and science from the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. [1]
After German emperor Wilhelm II took notice of her work, the German Empire commissioned two paintings from her for the 1900 Paris Exposition. According to American newspapers in 1905, this made her "the first woman in Germany to receive a commissions for works of art from the Government." [1] The emperor later owned at least four of her paintings [1] and awarded her the Order of Honor, making her the first female artist to receive one. [4]
Four of her paintings were exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. [5] [6] Around 1904, she created and painted murals for the interior of the ship Kaiser Wilhelm II. [7] Before 1905, she was commissioned by the city of Oldenburg to create a painting as a wedding gift for the German crown prince and princess. [8]
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Fra Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I.
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academicism, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decorative art.
Sarah Henrietta Purser RHA was an Irish artist mainly noted for her portraiture. She was the first woman to become a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. She also founded and financially supported An Túr Gloine, a stained glass studio.
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. He was born and died in Potsdam, Germany.
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is noted for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. She is considered one of the most important representatives of early expressionism, producing more than 700 paintings and over 1000 drawings during her active painting life. She is recognized both as the first known woman painter to paint nude self-portraits, and the first woman to have a museum devoted exclusively to her art. Additionally, she is considered to be the first woman artist to depict herself both pregnant and nude and pregnant.
Johann Peter Theodor Janssen was a German historical painter.
Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999) was an American painter. Along with her husband Lorser Feitelson, she is credited with establishing the Post-Surrealist movement. Her artistic style changed over the course of her career, and has been described variously as Post-Surrealism, Hard-edge painting and Subjective Classicism.
Willy Stöwer was a German artist, illustrator, and author during the Imperial Period. He is best known for nautical paintings and lithographs. Many of his works depict historical maritime events such as the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger was a German painter, art critic, playwright and poet.
Grace Greenwood Ames was an American artist and social realism muralist. She worked in Mexico on murals alongside historical artists.
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg was a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. She was the only surviving child of Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg by his first wife Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia.
Hermann Knackfuss was a German painter and writer on art. He is known for his historical paintings, but his most-recognized work is his illustration on behalf of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Peoples of Europe, Guard your Dearest Goods, which has become an iconic symbol of the use of the yellow peril to justify European imperialism in Asia at the end of the nineteenth century.
Lucia Fairchild Fuller was an American painter and member of the New Hampshire Cornish Art Colony. She was inspired to pursue art by John Singer Sargent. Fuller created a mural entitled TheWomen of Plymouth for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Best known for her portrait miniatures, she was a founding member and treasurer of the American Society of Miniature Painters.
Anita Clara Rée was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic. She killed herself after the anti-Semitic government declared her work degenerate. Her works were saved by a groundskeeper.
Paul Wallat was a German landscape artist, draftsman and sculptor.
Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry. She was murdered in the Shoah. The Painter Susanne Ritscher was her sister.
The Kunstmuseen Krefeld is collection of three art museums in Krefeld, Germany. and particularly dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Comprising the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, the Haus Lange and Haus Esters, the museums since the late 1950s have risen to international prominence. Katia Baudin, former deputy director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, has headed the institution since September 2016.
Max Creutz was a German art historian and curator of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum in Krefeld where he worked from 1922 until his death. In Cologne, in 1914 he was instrumental in the first exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund, Deutsche Werkbundausstellung. In Krefeld, he succeeded in acquiring modern art exhibits, including works by Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, and Alexej von Jawlensky. He included a substantial collection of art, crafts and design from the Bauhaus.
{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
