2010/03/15

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918)

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Der Studierende. Selbstbildnis, 1874
(The Student - Self-Portrait
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Oil on canvas,  113x73 cm.
Kunsthaus Zürich.




The Chosen One, 1893-94
Tempera and oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Berne




Adoration III, 1893
Oil on canvas, 84 x 37,5 cm. 
Kunsthaus Zürich.



 Spring
Crayon lithograph, 83.8 x 58.4 cm
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.



Wiesenstück (Meadow), um 1901
Öl auf Leinwand (Oil on canvas) , 38 x 46 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf.




Der Burgäschisee, um 1901
Öl auf Leinwand, 49.5 x 69 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel.



The Jungfrau Mountain as Seen from the Isenfluh, 1902.
Public Art Collection, Basel Fine Arts Museum




Die Wahrheit II (The Truth II), 1903
Oil on canvas, Kunsthaus Zürich.
 



 Regard dans l’infini III, 1903-1906 
Musée Cartonal des Beaux-arts, Lausanne.




Waldbach bei Leissingen, 1904
(Forest Brook at Leissingen)
Kunsthaus, Zürich.




Lied aus der Ferne, 1. Fassung, 1906
Öl auf Leinwand, 140 x 120 cm
Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen.




Junger Freiheitskämpfer, 1908
211 x 91 cm
Neue Pinakothek, München.




Die Liebe (Love), 1907/08
Oil on canvas 
Private collection.



Andey Peak, Arve Valle in Haute Savoie, 1909
Oil on canvas  67.5 x 90.5 cm
Paris, Musée d'Orsay.




Lake Thun and the Stockhorn Mountains, 1910
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.



Die Holzfaller (The Woodcutter), c. 1910
Oil on canvas, 1.3 x 1.01 m
Musée d 'Orsay.



Die Seterbende, 1915
Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 90.5 cm
Kunsmuseum, Basel.




 
Der Blick in die Unendlichkeit. (View into Infinity), 1915
Oil on canvas, 446 x 895 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel.



Autoportrait, 1916
Oil on canvas, 39 x 40,5 cm 
Aargauer Kunsthaus. Aarau.



Genfersee mit Mont-Blanc am Nachmittag, März, 1918
(Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc, in the Afternoon)

Oil on canvas
Private collection
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Ferdinand Hodler, 1916
Photographer: Paul Bonzon

2010/03/08

Anselm Kiefer (German, b. March 8, 1945)


Everyone Stands Under His Own Dome of Heaven, 1970
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite pencil on joined paper
15 3/4 x 18 7/8 in. (40 X 47.9 cm) 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Each man has his own dome, his own perceptions, his own theories. There is no one god for all."


Parsifal I, 1973
Oil on paper laid on canvas
support: 3247 x 2198 mm
on paper, unique




Resurrexit, 1973
Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on burlap. 290 x 180 cm. 
Collection Sanders. Amsterdam.




Paths: March Sand, 1980
Oil, emulsion, shellac, sand and photograph (on projection paper) on canvas
284.5 x 440.7 cm
Saatchi Collection, London



 The Book, (1979-1985) 
Oil, lead, photographic paper, straw, and fabric on canvas




Landscape with Wing, 1981
Oil, straw, lead on canvas, 130 by 218 inches
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.




Margarete, 1981
Oil and straw on canvas. 280 x 380 cm.
Saatchi Collection, London



 To the Unknown Painter, 1983
Oil, emulsion, woodcut, shellac, latex, and straw on canvas 9'2" square
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh




Twilight of the West  [Abendland] 1989
lead sheet, synthetic polymer paint, ash, plaster, cement, earth, varnish on canvas and wood
400.0 (h) x 380.0 (w) x 12.0 (d) cm
painted in image c.l. "Abend-Land"




Leviathan, 1989
330 x 560 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie




Book with Wings, 1992-94
Lead, steel, and tin, 74 3/4 x 208 5/8 x 43 3/8 inches
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 
Museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund



Les Reines de France, 1995. 
Emulsion, acrylic, sunflower seeds, photographs, woodcut, gold leaf, and cardboard (mosaic) on canvas, 
Three panels,Overall: 220 1/2 x 290 1/2 inches; Each: 220 1/2 x 98 1/2 inches. 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum


 Falling Stars, 1995



 Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World, 1997





Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, 2000





Palmsonntag, 2007
36 panels of mixed media on board (in lead frame under glass), 
fiberglass and resin palm tree, clay bricks and steel support
Dimensions variable




hortus conclusus, 2009
Gouache on photopaper
69 3/8 x 55 13/16 inches (176 x 142 cm)






Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation.

Kiefer studied with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s, but soon began to develop his own, deliberately indigenous set of subjects and symbols that he used to explore the fraught territory of German history and identity. In his muscular artistic language, physical materiality and visual complexity enliven his themes and content with a rich, vibrant tactility. His subject-matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material.
 
Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945. He lives and works in Provence, France. 


Photo: Anselm Kiefer (© Renate Graf)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch, March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944)

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Self Portrait, 1900. 
Oil on canvas. 49 x 38 cm. 
The Phillips Collection. Washington D.C. USA.




 Pollard Willows on the Gein, 1902-04. 
Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 63 cm. 
Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. The Hague.




 Trees along the Gein, 1907
Oil on canvas, 64 x 93 cm




Irises, 1906-1908
Oil on canvas, H.30-1/4 x W.21-1/4 x D.2-1/4 in
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 




 Chrysanthemum, 1908–09. 
Charcoal on paper, 10 x 11 1/4 inches (25.4 x 28.7 cm). 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York  61.1589. 




Red Tree, 1908
Oil on canvas, 70 x 99 cm (27 1/2 x 39 in)
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague



Gray Tree, 1911
Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 107.5 cm (30 7/8 x 42 3/8 in)
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague




 Evolution, 1910/11. 
Oil on canvas. 178 x 85 cm, 183 x 87.5 cm, 178 x 85 cm. 
Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands.




Composition No. II, Composition in Line and Color, 1913
Oil on canvas, 88 x 115 cm (34 5/8 x 45 1/4 in)
Kroeller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo 




 Tableau No. 2/Composition No. VII, 1913. 
Oil on canvas, 41 1/8 x 44 3/4 inches (104.4 x 113.6 cm). 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York



Composition No.10 - Pier and Ocean, 1914
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller




 Composition 8 (Compositie 8), 1914. 
Oil on canvas, 37 1/8 x 21 7/8 inches (94.4 x 55.6 cm). 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York




 Composition 2.,1922. 
Oil on canvas. 55.5 x 53.5 cm. 
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.




 Fox Trot; Lozenge Composition with Three Black Lines, 1929
Oil on canvas, 78.2 x 78.2 cm (30 3/4 x 30 3/4 in)
Vertical axis 110 cm (43 1/4 in)
Yale University Art Gallery 






Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42
Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 69 cm (28 1/2 x 27 1/8 in.)
Tate Gallery, London 




Composition No. 12 with Blue, 1936-1942
Oil on canvas, 62 x 60.3
National Gallery of Canada





New York City I. 1942. 
Oil on canvas. 119.3 x 114.2 cm. 
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.




Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-1943
Oil on canvas, 50 x 50" (127 x 127 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York



Victory Boogie-Woogie, 1943-1944 (unfinished)
Oil and paper on canvas, diagonal 177.5 cm. 
Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands.



Piet Mondrian 
Photo by Klein Rosa, 1937