The roaring twenties in Berlin
It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus...

Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his...

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable...

The painterly gestures of personal feelings
Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence,...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of...

August Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I....

Fernando Botero's fulsome and frolicking forms

Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the...

The onset of Expressionism
In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists’ group...

G... , Grosenick...

Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With...

Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of...

Changing the course of 20th-century art

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact...

Discover the artist who applied paint according to the world around him and bridged the transition from Realism to Impressionism....

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a...

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From the Land of the Pharaohs.
The finest treasures from Ancient Egypt.
The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to...

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious...

Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of...

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at...

The king of the contemplative landscape
The beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar...

Sylvia... , Uta...

Inspired by the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with...

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From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes...

Walter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding...

Discover the shimmering and sensual oeuvre of Gustav Klimt, the Austrian symbolist painter who polarized the art world by...

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended...

Through eye-popping colors and simple forms, rejoice in the restless creativity and infectious energy of Henri Matisse, the...

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he...

As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas...