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Artist Otto Dix Title Portrait of a Prisoner of War Year 1945 Medium oil and tempera on cardboard Dimensions 82.5 x 67.5 cm Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar You don’t walk into Otto Dix’s Portrait of a Prisoner of War expecting…
Title Russian Prisoner of War (Grigori Kladjishuli) Artist Egon Schiele Date 1916; Vienna, Austria Medium watercolor,paper Current Location Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US A piercing gaze. A stiff green uniform. A history far heavier than the paper it’s…
Paul Klee’s exploration of printmaking techniques led him to the fascinating and rare process of cliché verre, a hybrid method between drawing and photography. This technique, which he masterfully employed in works such as My Father (1906), involves scratching an…
Egon Schiele is perhaps best known for his provocative and emotionally charged depictions of the human form, especially in his figure studies and portraits. While much attention is often given to his controversial nudes and expressive use of line, Schiele’s…