Masterpieces from Germany
During the Europeana 280 campaign, we asked the German Ministry of Culture to select highlights from German art collections.
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Post-first-world-war tableaux mark a qualitative highlight in Klee's work at the outset of the middle of his creative period. The "rhythmic landscapes with trees" group emerged from the years 1919-1820. In addition to "Camel (in Rhythmi…
Die Darstellung einer familiären Szene vor der Alster mit Blick auf die Stadt ist zunächst ein schönes Biedermeierbild, welches anhand von Kleidung und Teeservice, sowie technischen Details um1830 datiert werden konnte. Mit Auslösung einer komplexen Mecha…
The "Merzbild Einunddreissig" is one of the main works from the early days of "Merz", the art term developed by KS since 1919, from which he refers to his extensive activities as an artist, author, commercial artist and publisher. In t…
The “Sistine Madonna” is one of most famous Renaissance artworks in the world. Raphael painted the altarpiece in 1512/13 in Rome. It was commissioned by Pope Julius II, who send the picture as a gift to the monastery church San Sisto in Piacenza (a small …
Painting, Oil on Wood (door leaf), 1988. Like no other painter Klaus Killisch stands for a young generation of artists in East Germany in the 1980ies. His highly expressive paintings are motivated and based on a transdisciplinary approach as well as they …
Painted soon after Quiet Room (cf. inv. no. 3238), Concentric Group is one of Schlemmer's most important paintings. It is based on a cross structure but foregoes perspectival spatial projection. A near-symmetrical cross-shaped figure arrangement is se…
With this painting Dürer, then 28 years old, created one of the most unusual works in portraiture history. The frontality and the strong idealization are reminiscent of representations of Christ, both aspects however being inseparable from Dürer's ear…
The Self-portrait on the 6th Wedding Day, created in Paris, is an example of Paula Modersohn-Becker's modernity: simple form accompanied by reduced color. With paintings like this she manages the implementation of the "great simplicity of form&qu…
Botanical reference book (delicately pictured) on plants.
In 1919, Hannah Höch began to apply herself to the technique of photomontage, which had originated in the experimental workshop of Dada. Until the end of her life, despite her traditional art education, she continued to cut up the images she found - repro…