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4 days ago · Among the accepted art movements was German Romanticism, which allegedly dwelled upon the soul of the nation. Despite Hitler’s hate of most European Symbolist works, Arnold Böcklin, the great German Symbolist painter, was one of his favorites. He kept one of the thirteen versions of the famous Isle of the Dead in his private collection. In ...
5 days ago · Around the 1950s, Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist by profession, began collecting works of art, focusing mainly on Schiele, managing to acquire numerous works at relatively low prices. Later around the 1960s the collection grew considerably to include works by expressionist artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Gustav Klimt.
5 days ago · It even led to the development of a special ‘Congo style’ linked to Art Nouveau to link the cultures of the colony and the coloniser. The immense Colonial Palace at the Brussels International Exposition of 1897 aimed to win over investors and convince the Belgian people to support Leopold’s imperial project. ‘Style Congo.
4 days ago · 1933-1939: The Prelude to the Holocaust. When Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi Party began implementing a series of measures designed to isolate, persecute, and ultimately eliminate Jews from German society. The first concentration camp, Dachau, opened on March 22, 1933, initially housing political ...
5 days ago · Chapter 5, 'The "fine" Europe of towns and universities (thirteenth century)', revisits some of the areas most central to Le Goff's life work. But the basic question with which this book is concerned is whether we can meaningfully describe this period as the 'birth' of Europe.
2 days ago · The Belgian prince who refused the crowns. Belgium’s Prince Philippe, the second son of King Leopold I, was one of the most indolent aristocrats in 19th century Europe. He refused numerous foreign crowns, found politics boring and shunned the limelight. On a cold November day in 1905, European royalty gathered in Brussels to attend the ...
1 day ago · The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
