Outré JournalHermann ZapfZapf was born in Nuremberg during turbulent times marked by the German Revolution of 1918–1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of World War…Oct 26, 2022Oct 26, 2022
Outré JournalMan RayBorn in Philadelphia in 1890, he was named Emmanuel Radnitsky by his Russian emigre parents. By 1911, though, “Manny’’ had abbreviated his…Oct 23, 2021Oct 23, 2021
Outré JournalKurt SchwittersKurt Schwitters is hailed as the godfather of everything from Happenings and Fluxus to performance art, conceptual art and multimedia art…Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021
Outré JournalHannah Höch, born in 1889, was one of the pioneers of photomontage — an art form in which…Höch is most remarkable for challenging accepted social and artistic values early in the course of the 20th century, for working doubly…Oct 21, 2021Oct 21, 2021
Outré JournalThomas EakinsThomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia in 1844, when the city was a center of U.S.commerce and science and the scientific rationalism of…Oct 18, 2021Oct 18, 2021
Outré JournalGeorge BellowsIn the early 20th century, George Bellows passed up a career in professional baseball in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, to pursue a career…Oct 17, 2021Oct 17, 2021
Outré JournalMarianne BrandtIn a 1919 manifesto, Gropius explained he wanted artisans who created objects that were both beautiful and useful and, with that mission…Oct 17, 2021Oct 17, 2021
Outré JournalWalter GropiusIn May 1919 the 36-year-old German architect Walter Gropius travelled from Berlin to Weimar to take up his post as founding director of the…Oct 16, 2021Oct 16, 2021
Outré JournalPaul KleeBorn to a German father who was a music teacher and a Swiss mother who was a trained singer in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, his parents…Oct 15, 2021Oct 15, 2021
Outré JournalLászló Moholy-NagyWhen he first came to art as a painter in the late teens and early 1920s, he was most drawn to the ideas of nonobjective art, the idea…Oct 13, 2021Oct 13, 2021
