Artist Monographs
6 total works
Claude Monet's extensive work is revealed in numerous images. He was a painter who like no other moved perception to the center of his artistic activities. Nature became his own studio. This resulted in fascinating landscapes of different times and seasons in the mirror of wind and weather.
An eccentric exhibitionist, Egon Schiele documented the discord of his time in furious paintings of people and self-portraits. Schiele's artistic universe is ready to be rediscovered with these many illustrations of drawings, watercolors, graphics, and paintings.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir put people into the center of his painting. His compositions showed people embracing the pleasures of life, dancing, and enjoying outings in Paris. He created special atmospheres full of summer warmth and lightness, which is why Renoir is considered a painter of life's happiest moments.
Chaim Soutine was an eccentric both in life and on the canvas. His wild painting style inspired many younger artists and leaves no one who sees his work today cold. His path led from a shtetl in the Russian Empire to Paris, from bitter poverty to the heights of artistic success. His works include shocking still lifes, unbounded landscapes, and solemn portraits of people getting by in dark times.
Edgar Degas staged his paintings like a director and developed spectacular perspectives, radical images, and fleeting spaces. Numerous images of his paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures show his sensational work that was far ahead of its time.
William Turner was a shy loner and a bit of an eccentric, but also an extremely productive artist who quickly became one of the most successful painters of landscapes and seascapes in England. Although his fame was limited to his native Britain during his lifetime, William Turner is now revered as an exceptional talent who bridged romanticism and impressionism.