Photography & Art
The French painter Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. When he was three years old, his father lost his job as a journalist and his family moved to Peru with relatives. The father dies shortly after the end of the long journey. Gauguin’s mother is a writer and they live together[…]
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Home accessories and decoration beautify every room and give it an individual touch. This also applies to the kitchen, where people cook, live and enjoy, if we want to feel at home – here decoration must not be missing. And because decorating is fun, we have put together 10 tips for decorating your kitchen with[…]
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Wassily Kandinsky was revolutionary at the beginning of the 20th century. But not everyone was enthusiastic about the new art movement at the time.
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The best thing about getting up early is taking pictures in the garden. The light is still soft early in the morning, the colours are balanced, deep shadows are missing. Reflecting flowers, like red tulips, which can hardly be picked up when the sun is shining, present themselves early in the morning almost by themselves[…]
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Wilderness for the living room: Hong Kong designer Charlie Kayi sells entire plant communities in a carafe – and her hip customers pay for the reconstructed “primeval forests” so that they can experience good money in urban surroundings. In return, they get jungle in various sizes.
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Archaeologists from Tromsø University have discovered previously unknown rock carvings on Årøya island in the Altafjord. There is also something happening at the end of the fjord: on Wednesday, 30 May, a new exhibition will open at the World Heritage Site Museum in Alta, where visitors can learn about mountain art on various levels.
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“Shiny shit” or inspiration? An artist wants to shoot a sculpture into space and make you think. Researchers take a critical view. It’s also about the fundamental: what belongs in space and what doesn’t?
Continue ReadingThe founder Walter Gropius pursued the dream of creating a new “architectural art”: Art and craft were to be united. He called this art “Bauhaus”, like the name of his school “The Bauhaus”. Bauhaus is therefore less about a concrete style of art than about the coming together of artists of different styles who pursue[…]
Continue ReadingDada was created in the midst of the turmoil of the First World War – in 1916, at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The artists Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck sit together in Cabaret Voltaire. They are currently busy orakeling the artist’s name for a friend. They use a German/French dictionary to help them and[…]
Continue ReadingArt Nouveau flourished between 1890 and 1910 and the new art movement became known mainly in Germany under this name. It is named after the Munich art magazine “Die Jugend”. Outside Germany, however, the same art style became best known under the name “Art Nouveau”. Art Nouveau at that time had the reputation of being[…]
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