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Gustave Klimt | 21 mars 2007
" The Music "
Gustave Klimt 1862-1918
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The Years between the Two Wars | 21 mars 2007
Posters:
Max Pechstein ( Don't Strangle Our New Born Freedom), 1919
Rudi Feld ( The Danger of Bolshevism), ca.1919
The Between War Years
As the 1st World War drew to it's bitter end, hunger and despair were rife throughout Germany. Military defeat and economic collapse were making
themselves felt.
Deserting soldiers roamed the streets and added to the chaos. The country was ripe for change.
On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Holland, and a few days later
announced his abdication.
The stage was set for a revolution that would replace the old regime with a system in which the leaders were responsible to parliament.
A coalition government of the moderate Social Democratic party and the more radical independent Social Democrats was set up.
Elections were called for january 1919. In the intervening period many artist's become Politically active, some for the first time, trying to stimulate action, strengthen opinions, or alter the social conscience.
Posters were the visual weapons in the struggle of the working class against the rich.
In marked contrast to the censorship that had been so strictly enforced during the Kaiser's reign, German cities now become a riot of colors and slogans as strident messages covered every available wall space.
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Egon Schiele the Artist's room in Neulengbach ( My living room ) 1911 | 21 mars 2007
Check Vincent Van Gogh's thème, Arles Bedroom, 1888 blogg posting on the 04/07/2006
A version of Van Gogh's painting was owened by Schiele's patron Carl Reininghaus and
Exhibited at the 1909 "kunstschau"
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Goya | 21 mars 2007
Spanish titel: Qual la Descanonan!
" Hens are plucked by vultures. As the sayings go, " Give and take," "Six of one and half dozen of the other."
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Yves KLein in Vienna | 21 mars 2007
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