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From inside the war / The Crowds
Hazem Alhamwi is both a visual artist and a film maker, author of the award winning documentary “From my Syrian Room”. The black and white drawings and paintings were made in Syria and vary in size. The coloured paintings were made in Berlin and their size is ca. 30 cm x 20 cm. The technique […]
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Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; Drawn from the Life, London 1817
In the first decade of the 19th century the bourgeoisie felt increasingly pestered by the exploding army of beggars and pedlars. A royal commission of inquiry was appointed to remedy this, and in 1815 published a first Mendicity and Vagrancy Report. The commission´s recommendations resulted in countering the problem of homelessness and beggary with strict […]
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Kupka´s T-error of Religions, 1904
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts publizierte der in Paris lebende tschechische Künstler Frantisek Kupka in Magazinen wie “Assiette au beurre”, “Le Canard Sauvage” und “Cocorico” einige furiose bildnerische Attacken gegen eine explosive Gemengelage aus ungehemmter Profitgier, Militarismus und Imperialismus, die überwiegend religiös legitimiert wurde. Seine kommentierte Bildfolge “Religions” war 1904 erschienen. Das Werk hat einen […]
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Conflicts and Flames (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting VI)
The depiction of social conflicts, of strikes, riots and mobs was one of the main subjects of special artists and faits divers-painters at the turn of the century. Some of them became masters of pictorial mass choreography and cataclysmic sceneries.
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Slums in the outskirts of London, 1797
“Remarks on Rural Scenery” was created by John Thomas Smith with the support of his student John Constable. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for the poor on the periphery of the exploding metropolis of London. The places […]
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Katerfamily
Henrieke Ribbe belongs to the very few real masters in the empathic art of portraiture. Her documentation on the Berlin club Kater Holzig was created in 2013/14. Together with her fiancée Jake Basker (aka Jake The Rapper), then a resident DJ at Kater Holzig, she came up with the idea to paint the people behind […]
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Meppel, an odd year (Meppel, een raar jaar), ca. 1992 – 1995
After his retirement as a drawing teacher in 1992 Jan Vegter (1927-2009) started to work intensely on the visualization of his memories of crucial periods of his life. To focuse his memory performance he decided to build detailed scale models of certain technical and topographic conditions. This amazing series was the first example of his […]
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Fresnes – Observations of a collaborateur. Part II
Rio was a pseudonym of Ralph Soupault (1904-1962), who became known in the 1920s as the leading cartoonist of the French nationalist reaction. Later on he joined the French fascist party PPF. Soupault was a supporter of the German occupying forces and became notorious for his anti-semitic propaganda. In 1946 he was arrested and sentenced […]
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Fresnes – Observations of a Collaborateur. Part I
Rio was a pseudonym of Ralph Soupault (1904-1962), who became known in the 1920s as the leading cartoonist of the French nationalist reaction. Later on he joined the French fascist party PPF, which was led by the former communist activist Jacques Doriot. Like his friend, the groundbreaking novelist Celine, Soupault was a supporter of the […]
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The Message of the Sandwich Man (Found by Tom Gretton)
In this lively street scene illustrator Richard Caton Woodville cached a reference to his collague Melton Prior, the most popular special artist of the era, and whose traditional dress code. Richard Caton Woodville,’ Shower in Piccadilly’, Illustrated London News, 18 September 1886 (Kensington and Chelsea Public Libraries, photo Tom Gretton) Richard Caton Woodville,’ Shower in […]