(English)Lajos Kassák was born in the small village of Ersekujvár, Hungary, on 21 March 1887. After only a few years at school, he served an apprenticeship as a locksmith. Lajos Kassák then became a metal worker in Györ and Budapest.At the age of twenty, Kassák began to teach himself painting and to write poetry. In 1915 he founded the revolutionary …
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(English)Born in 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner studied architecture and painting before forming the artists’ group Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) in Dresden on 7 June 1905, with Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911, and within two years the group split. Kirchner worked at a feverish pace, producing art that drew its subject matter from …
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Venezia, 1904 – Rovereto 1988, è stato un pittore italiano. Dopo essere stato allievo di Ettore Tito, nel 1922 aderì al Futurismo creando lavori di puri ritmi astratti (vedi “Rumore di locomotiva, 1922). Allievo di E. Tito all’Accademia di belle arti, il K. ben presto prese le distanze dalla lezione stilistica del maestro. Già a diciotto anni, infatti, l’incontro con …
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(English)Opočno, 1871-Puteaux, 1957. Frantisˇek Kupka, one of the pioneers of abstraction, was born in a small town in east Bohemia and trained as an artist in Prague and Vienna. He settled in Paris in 1896, earning his living as an illustrator for a time. In the French capital he found an environment that was more conducive to the development of his …
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(Spanish)Ciudad Rodrigo 1891 – Sevilla 1966, fue un pintor español expresionista de la primera generación de la Escuela de París. Desde su Ciudad Rodrigo natal, se marchó a Madrid para formar parte del taller de uno de los mejores escultores del momento, Miguel Blay. Durante 1910 y 1911 visitó Barcelona. Más tarde estudió escultura en París en 1911 aconsejado por …
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(English)Born 1881 in Tiraspol. He was the son of Fiodor Mikhailovich Larionov, a doctor and a pharmacist, and Aleksandra Fiodorovna Petrovskaia, but he grew up in his grandparents’ home in Tiraspol. He attended the Voskresenskii Technical High School in Moscow and in 1898 entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. Here he …
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(English)Bácsborsod, 1895-Chicago, 1946. The Hungarian-born painter László Moholy-Nagy was a leading figure in twentieth-century art for his experiments with light and time, which were widely disseminated through his work as an educator first in Europe and later in the United States. Moholy-Nagy discovered painting after being wounded in the First World War and from this point onwards experimented unceasingly with all …
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(French)Avec une carrière de plus de 50 ans, Fernand Léger (français, né le 4 février 1881 à Argentan – mort le 17 août 1955 à Gif-sur-Yvette) travaille une multitude de supports, comme la peinture, la céramique, la gravure, les fresques à grande échelle, les films, le théâtre, la danse, le verre, l’édition. Très tôt dans sa carrière, après avoir vu …
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(English)Born Lazar Markovich (El) Lissitzky (Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий) in 1890 to an educated middle-class Jewish family in Pochinok, Smolensk Province, Russia. He grew up in Vitebsk, a small Jewish town in Belorussia, where he took art lessons in 1903 from Russian painter Iurii (Yehuda) Moiseevich Pen, who also taught Marc Chagall. In 1909, after being turned down by the St. …
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(English)Meschede, 1887-Perthes-les-Hurlus, 1914. August Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. …
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