Artists in the History

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    Paul Klee

    Aljosha Klee, Paul Klee’s grandson, says: “The partnership with David Zwirner guiding Paul Klee’s work to a new generation of artists and collectors. The first exhibition of works by the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the centenary of his birth. The founding of the Bauhaus. In September 2019, the gallery is planning a solo exhibition of Paul Klee work…

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    Peter Max

    He was born in 1938 in Berlin, Germany, where Max’s parents fled Nazi repression and settled in Shanghai, China, where they lived for the next 10 years. Peter Max Finkelstein was born in 1937 in Berlin, the psychedelic pop art icon who spent his early childhood in Shanghai after his parents emigrated from Germany to escape Nazis. Max’s paintings, graphic…

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    Piet Mondrian

    Pete Mondrian, real name Peter Cornelis Mondrian (born March 7, 1872 in Amersfoort, Netherlands ; died January 1, 1944 in New York, New York City, USA) was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and one of the leading representatives of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl (“style” ), artist. Mondrian’s art was eminently…

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    Raphael

    Raphael was the youngest contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo and with them he personified the High Renaissance in Italy. Throughout much of Western art history the light grace and harmonious balance of Raphael’ s style represented the ideal of perfection. Raphael must first studied at the court of Urbino with his father, an artist in an environment rich in art…

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    Rembrandt

    Rembrandt was an innovative and prolific artist in three media [3], generally regarded as one of the greatest visual artists in art history and the most important in the history of Dutch art. His contributions to art came at a time of great wealth and cultural achievement known as the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting) was…

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    Robert Mapplethorpe

    His installation, reinstalled at the Guggenheim, touches on the unease gay blacks have when they see bodies they find attractive, in what they also see as an inhuman representation of a white observer. The grandeur of his ambition (he compared himself to Michelangelo) rarely allowed humor, but there is a conspicuous image that evokes a sense of humor and discomfort…

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    Roy Lichtenstein

    Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol were used on the U2 1997, 1998 PopMart Tour and in the 2007 exhibition at the British National Portrait Gallery. A painting from Liechtenstein’s Entablature series was destroyed by fire. Among many other works of art lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. In the early 1960s Liechtenstein rose to…

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    Sally Mann

    He brought together his roots from the American South as well as an experimental, masterful and sometimes deliberately flawed engraving process. From 1985 to 1994, Mann photographed his three children Emmett, Jesse and Virginia in his family’s secluded summer home in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and captured pictures of the carefree daily activities of childhood – playing, sleeping, fighting, eating –…

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    Shepard Fairey

    Shepard Fairey (born January 15, 1970, Charleston, South Carolina, USA) is an American muralist and graphic artist who began an advertising campaign in the late 1990s with a screen copy of the wrestler Andre the Giant. Shepard Fairey is perhaps best known for her iconic 2008 “Hope” poster that depicts then-US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Shepard Fairey is one of…

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    Slim Aarons

    Slim Aarons (née George Allen Aarons; November 29, 1916 — May 30, 2006) was an American photographer known for his portraits of socialites, expatriates, and celebrities. He enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 18 and later worked as a combat photographer during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart. Slim Aarons worked with the…