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Tag Archives: 1900’s
1907: Kampen, Sylt
Wenzel Hablik: Kampen, Sylt: Dark Clouds, Mudflats (1907)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Germany, Landscapes, Painting, The Sky, Wenzel Hablik
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1907: Iron and Steel
Eugen Bracht: Hoesch Iron and Steel Works, Dortmund (1907)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Eugen Bracht, Factories, Germany, Industry, Landscapes, Painting
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1907: Landscape with Sign
Léon Spilliaert: Landscape with Sign, Nocturne (circa 1907)
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1906: Entrance to Paradise
Wilhelm Bernatzik: Entrance to Paradise (1906)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Austria, Heaven, Painting, Wilhelm Bernatzik
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1904: Buy Your Chair Under a Chair
Founded in the 1850’s by Swiss immigrants from Cincinnati, Tell City, Indiana was originally a planned community in which land was distributed by lottery and everyone was guaranteed a job. One of the first businesses in the town was the … Continue reading
1901: Am I So Very Ugly?
Walter Crane: “Am I so very ugly?” —illustration for Beauty and the Beast (ca. 1901)
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1894: Swans
Józef Pankiewicz: Nocturne: Swans in the Saxon Garden in Warsaw by Night (1894)
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1918: All Things Die, But All Will Be Resurrected
Detail from Léon Frédéric’s seven-panel work All Things Die, But All Will Be Resurrected through God’s Love (1893-1918). Here is the whole thing:
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Tagged 1890's, 1900's, 1910's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Belgium, Christianity, Death, Léon Frédéric, Painting, Religion
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1903: The Phantom Ship
Frank Wilbert Stokes: The Phantom Ship, Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1903)
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1903: Ship of the Desert
This publicity image of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt was painted in the Otto Bollhagen studios around the time of the ship’s completion in 1903. During World War I, the ship was … Continue reading
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