Landscapes

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Meadows near Greifswald circa 1821-1822

Sent by Hanna in Ingolstadt, Germany

on 20 Apr, 2014

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,681 km

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

The Bridge at Bougival, 1869

Currier Museum of art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Sent by Marianne in Lemgo, Germany

 on 30 Jul, 2019

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,415 km

Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012) California, U.S.A.

Sent by Esin in Istanbul, Turkey

on 11 Sep, 2014

travel time 13 days

distance travelled 2,425 km

William Thomas Kinkade III  was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for his success, during his lifetime, with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, one in every twenty American homes owns a copy of one of his paintings.

Leda, glassy and standing nudes

Salvador Dali

Leda Atomica 1949

Teatre-Museu Dalí, Figueres, Spain

 The picture depicts Leda, the mythological queen of Sparta, with the swan. Leda is a frontal portrait of Dalí's wife, Gala, who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to her left.

Erich Heckel, Glassy Day, 1913

Modern art Gallery, Mûnchen, Germany 

Erich Heckel (1883 –  1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") which existed 1905-1913.

Joan Miro 

Standing Nude, 1921

New York , Perls Galleries, U.S.A.

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( 1893 – 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

W is for Wassily

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist, nationality later French. Expressionis and abstract art artist.

Early period. Munich - Schawabing wirh the church of St.. Ursula, 1908

 Improvisation 6 (African) 1909

Improvisation 9, 1910

Composition 6, 1913 

Moscow I, 1916

Composition IX 1936

August Macke

Girls under Trees 1914

Elizabeth Reading, 1911

Received from Uta in Germany
Distance: 1,296 km
Travel time: 4 days

August Macke (1887 –  1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. 

Macke's career was cut short by his early death at the front in Champagne in September 1914, the second month of World War I. His final painting, Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war. Wikipedia

August Macke (1887- 1914 ) oli saksalainen taidemaalari. Macken maalauksissa on hehkuva voimakas väriasteikko ja kubismiin sekä futurismiin pohjautuva rakenteellinen muotokieli.  Vuonna 1911 Macke liittyi Franz Marcin ja Wassily Kandiskyn perustamaan Der Blaue Reiter- taiteilijaryhmään ja osallistui sen näyttelyihin. 

Ensimmäinen maailmansota alkoi elokuussa 1914 ja Macke kutsuttiin armeijan palvelukseen. Muutama viikko myöhemmin hän kaatui 27 vuoden ikäisenä Reimsin lähellä käydyssä taistelussa. Wikipedia