Electricity by Ignatius Taschner, Art Nouveau lithograph, 1897
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph of Ignatius Taschner’s Electricity, published as Plate 95 in Gerlach’s Allegorien by Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna. Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in i...
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The Thirst, Plate 52 from Gerlach's Allegorien, Vienna Secession lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900.
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Spring by Robert Engels, Medieval Art Nouveau lithograph with gold ink, 1897
By Robert Engels
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900.
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #116: "Force, Thirst, Love" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
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$3,200
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #93: "Science" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
Lithograph
$900
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #98: "Poetry" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #114: "Vignettes" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
Lithograph
$2,250
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
Lithograph
$900
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #83: "Seasons" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Astronomy, The Creation, The Lie" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
Lithograph
$900
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #85: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #37: "Music" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #30: "Love" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #51: "Summer" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #94: "Heads" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #44: "Music" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Dance & Wine" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Palm Beach, FL
While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALL...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #35: "Love & Wine" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #89: "Bookplate Spring" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #75: "Hunting, Fishing, Rowing, Cycling"
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Folio, plate #53: "Junius" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Klimt gives the viewer an intimate psychological portrait of life ripe with possibilities, in the June of life. ALLEGORIEN-NEUE FOLGE, 1897, published by Gerlach & Schenk Verlag f...
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #20: "Song, Love, Music, Dance" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #47: "Morning in the Spring" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Palm Beach, FL
His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters of the 1970s and remains a source of inspiration to many...
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Gerlach's Allegorien, plate #66: "Tragedy" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
It is the first time a Japonist influence shows up in Klimt’s work, and it is especially telling that Klimt employs the dragon as both a specter which cannot be ignored and as a harb...
Lithograph
$13,500
Gerlach's Allegorien Folio, plate #58: "Sculpture" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Klimt’s allegory of sculpture is a paean to the Modern emerging from the Classical past. ALLEGORIEN-NEUE FOLGE, 1897, published by Gerlach & Schenk Verlag fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Vie...
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Gerlach's Allegorien, plate #46: "Love" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Personified by the male, love in the form of the rose bush which has ensnared the young woman in the prime of her beauty and her life, is capable of inflicting pain and hurt. ALLEGO...
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H 13.75 in W 17.25 in D 0.2 in
Astronomy, Plate 120 from Gerlach's Allegorien, Vienna Secession lithograph
By Hanus Schwaiger
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized publication of artworks by a group of Viennese artists and students beginning in 1897.
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H 17.25 in W 13.75 in D 0.2 in
Sport and Sciences by Berthold Löffler, Art Nouveau lithograph 1899
By Berthold Löffler
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900.
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H 17.25 in W 13.75 in
Gerlach's Allegorien, plate #46: "Love" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Personified by the male, love in the form of the rose bush which has ensnared the young woman in the prime of her beauty and her life, is capable of inflicting pain and hurt. ALLE...
Lithograph
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.
Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.
Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.
Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.
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