Vienna's Albertina Museum is home to the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Albrecht Durer. Durer's genius for drawing and painting rivaled those of his Italian contemporaries and his exquisitely detailed and delicately colored prints elevated the medium to new levels of accomplishmen[...]
With intensely vibrant colors and a pastose application of paint, a group of 12 young artists--including Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen, and others--caused a major controversy at the 1905 third autumn salon in Paris. The critic Louis Vauxcelles labe[...]
American painter, sculptor and printmaker Eric Fischl (born 1948) is internationally known for his unusual nude paintings, featuring couples and families, which explore tensions between sexuality and power. Many of his works specifically address coming-of-age moments, blossoming sexual awareness and[...]
The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the world's most famous collections of art. This extensive, sumptuously illustrated volume presents the museum's masterpieces acquired from the founders of the collection, Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen, and his consort, the Grand Duchess Marie Christine. The hist[...]