Hans Hartung - T1949-21, 1949, Oil On Canvas, 46 X 54.9 Cm

Jeff Koons (American, born 1955)

Loopy, 1999

Oil on canvas

108 x 79 in. (274.3 x 200.7 cm.)

Private collection

Mernet Larsen

Reading in Bed, 2015

Kate Diehn-Bitt (German, 1900-1978)

An automatic translation:“Born in Schöneberg near Berlin in 1900, Kate (originally: Käthe) Diehn-Bitt was a middle-class daughter. Her training took place exclusively in various private art schools; After early marriage and the birth of her son in 1920, she began studying at the – again – private art academy in Dresden in 1929–31, where Woldemar Winkler (1902–2004) became her teacher, who later described her as “a very clever one , very self-confident, emancipated personality”. The Dresden art scene around Otto Dix, Otto Griebel and others must have been as impressive for Diehn-Bitt as the political atmosphere in the city. 

Back in Rostock, she set up her first studio in 1933; In 1935 she exhibited together with the sculptor Hertha von Guttenberg in the gallery of Wolfgang Gurlitt in Berlin - it would take until 1948 until another exhibition is dedicated to her in Schwerin. 

During the Nazi era, Kate Diehn-Bitt’s stepfather, Dr. Leo Glaser persecuted as a Jew; she herself and her work were deemed  “foreign”. After the end of the war, Diehn-Bitt was initially involved in cultural policy in the newly founded GDR, but after being sentenced to paint “not in a forward-looking or optimistic manner”, she withdrew from all functions in the 1950s and died in Rostock in 1978. All of the political-historical upheavals of the 20th century in Germany can be seen in her biography and work.”

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Takanori Oguiss 荻須高徳

Daniel Barkley. Saint Sebastian.2008.

Otto Freundlich

Cosmic Eye (z.j.)

Sonia Delaunay

Rythme coloré, January 26, 1936

Gouache on paper

Wedding in South Street

Artist: O. Louis Guglielmi (American, 1906–1956)

Date: 1937

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, United States

Dressing Up by Larisa Aukon

Paul Serusier

The Talisman: The Aven River at the Bois d'Amour

1888