Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist of extraordinary formal inventiveness whose art combined a childlike, primary vision and the utmost sophistication.Paul Klee was one of the...
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Despite the fact that his work is well known around the world, Swiss-born painter, violinist, essayist, poet, educator, and diarist Paul Klee remains difficult to classify as an artist. While his pain...
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Berne (dpa) - Switzerland's Euro 2008 host cities at a galance:
FACTBOX BERNE
Inhabitants: 122,000
Major attractions: Bear Pit, Parliament (Bundeshauser), Clock ...
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Quedlinburg, Germany (dpa) - The path leads straight from the
town's medieval milieu, through a half-timbered house's archway, to
Modernism - to the Lyonel Feininger Gallery...
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Bending over detailed engravings and squinting at their canvases, art students in white smocks toil amid rows of easels. Their paintings tour fine art museums in the U.S. and Europe, impressing con...
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For anyone with a serious interest in modernist painting and its role in shaping the course of 20th-century American art, the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has a fascinatin...
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Berlin (dpa) - Ever since the city's dramatic reunification in
late 1989, Berlin has enjoyed a boom in tourism, with figures surging
upwards every year.
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"A difficult artist"-that's how I've heard people describe Catherine Murphy. How much of a commendation can that be? As someone who has long admired her forbidding brand of realist painting, I'd sa...
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"Sublime" isn't an adjective that a critic should bandy about promiscuously. Used appropriately, it can describe the paintings of Fra Angelico and Vermeer, but the word is pretty much depleted ther...
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“Slow and seasoned”: That’s how a press release describes the paintings of Joanne Freeman on exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery. It’s prudent to be wary of the promotional v...
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“Slow and seasoned”: That’s how a press release describes the paintings of Joanne Freeman on exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery. It’s prudent to be wary of the promotional v...
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Anyone who wouldn’t want a painting by James Siena hanging over the sofa must be nuts. Then again, anyone who’d want more than one Siena over the sofa should have his head examined. Mr....
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee
BACKGROUND: Factbox: Facts and figures on Switzerland's venues
