Art Terms

STILL LIFES

For centuries they have fascinated painters and viewers alike: carefully arranged still lifes.

ACTION PAINTING

Abstract expressionist painting is associated with one name in particular: Jackson Pollock. With daring techniques such as "action painting," the American continues to influence the art scene to this day.

LANDSCAPE

Reflection of human feelings or spiritual image of nature: these are common aspects of landscape painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. But the special genre of representational painting did not always occupy such a high place.

BIEDERMEIER

Biedermeier is on its way to no longer being regarded as a musty product of stuffy taste, but is being rediscovered as a highly cultivated art movement.

BAROQUE ART

No epoch in European cultural history is as characterized by contradictions as the age of the Baroque - yet this style of art, which is often dismissed as "pompous," is once again attracting increasing attention.

NUDES IN ART

The nude is one of the oldest and most fascinating motifs in art. After all, the motif of the unclothed body offers virtually inexhaustible possibilities for depicting man's view of himself, his ideals, fears and dreams.

ZERO

End of painting, new beginning of art: Zero marks, as it were, the zero point before the new artistic beginning and changed the face of German post-war art so profoundly and lastingly that the effects are still noticeable today.

BRÜCKE

On June 7, 1905, four young Dresden students founded the artist group "Brücke". Their goal was to find new forms of pictorial expression with wild strokes and ecstatic colors. German Expressionism was born.

INSIGHT INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Insights into private art collections: Whether old masters or contemporaries, art is booming. More and more art enthusiasts are building up their own, often contemporary, collections. Thus, great art treasures are often hidden in private rooms.

PORTRAIT

The depiction of the human figure is one of the oldest motifs in painting. But it was not until the Renaissance and its new view of man as an autonomous individual that the portrait gained in importance.

THE NEUE WILDE

Painting experienced a brief but fierce renaissance in the early 1980s. Young artists joined forces to paint against the formal asceticism of Minimal and Concept Art.

LIGHT ART

Art with light? With artificial light? Eectrical light is one of the prerequisites for creating what is now called light art. The examination with predominantly artificial light, is a relatively young, but increasingly independent art genre.
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