First World War

Awarded the Croix de Guerre for his service in the First World War, he declined the Légion d'Honneur.

Argy-Rousseau began to work successfully with the material even before the First World War, after the war he founded a glass factory that had 20 employees at its peak.

He was alongside some of the fathers of modern art, including Gleizes, Villon, Duchamp, Metzinger, Picabia, and La Fresnaye. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his work....

Biographical Note Angelo Ostuni (1904–1981) was born in Trieste and moved with his family to Milan after the First World War. Although he never received formal training as an archit...

The First World War plunges him, as a nurse, closer to the horror.

The French had never read as much as during the First World War. Books and magazines were of mediocre quality, printed on bad paper, which was in short supply.

He abandoned porcelain production after the First World War.

He chose the Northern Vosges because he knew he could find qualified glassmakers there and took advantage of financial incentives from the French government following the First World...

Military Service During the First World War, Flint served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve before transferring to the Royal Air Force as a Captain.

Military Service During the First World War, Flint served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve before transferring to the Royal Air Force as a Captain.

A further milestone in the history of modern watchmaking was the introduction of the Tank watch in 1917, which was inspired by British First World War tanks. With their Paris boutiqu...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

Their appearance deliberately evokes both the prisoners of the First World War and the inmates of French penal colonies, transforming the image into a powerful criticism of economic ...

Dovaston was also asked to contribute to ‘Deeds That Thrill the Empire’ subtitled ‘True Stories of the Most Glorious Acts of Heroism of the Empire’s Soldiers and Sailors during the G...

He served with the Artists' Rifles during the First World War and became an Official War Artist in 1918.

He captured his experiences of the First World War in melancholic depictions of beggars and barren landscapes.

He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group (withdrawing when it was absorbed by the London Group), an exhibiting society of artists, the name of which has become synonymous wi...

After the end of the First World War, Lalique's colorful and fantastic jewelry were no longer in fashion.

In December 1912, Lalique hosted an exhibition of Lalique Glass—as his glass would come to be known—at the Place Vendôme shop. During the First World War, the glassworks produced mun...

Released from gun-toting military service due to unfitness, Faistauer organized together with Egon Schiele war-themed painting-exhibitions in the k.u.k.-Military Museum during the Fi...

After the end of the First World War, Lalique's colorful and fantastic jewelry were no longer in fashion.

After the end of the First World War, Lalique's colorful and fantastic jewelry were no longer in fashion.

After the end of the First World War, Lalique's colorful and fantastic jewelry were no longer in fashion.

He chose the Northern Vosges because he knew how to find qualified glassmakers there and took advantage of financial incentives from the French government following the First World W...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War, he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Par...

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse.

The map captures the immense geographic and ethnic diversity of the Dual Monarchy, one of Europe's major powers until the First World War. Published during a period of rapid industr...

He was wounded in action during the First World War. On his return from the war in 1919, he spent some time in Tunisia from where he brought back luminous sketches.

Today, Daum is the only industrial crystal manufacturer that uses the glass paste process for its glass objects and crystal sculptures. Following the First World War, Paul Daum bega...

Like many artists of his generation, Smeers spent the years of the First World War abroad, living for a time in London and in the Netherlands.

In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he c...

About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894-1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians...

Remaining faithful to massive forms and vivid colors, he was interested in a variety of subjects, both secular and mystical, and participated in the revival of religious painting in ...

About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisia...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibitin...

Indeed, he was so dedicated that he abandoned his family just before the First World War, enabling him to focus completely on his work.

In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he c...

From 1913 to 1919, she held a teaching position at the Art Students League in New York, roughly coinciding with the years of the First World War, when she was unable to travel abroad.

A rare and highly evocative First World War (WWI) period wristwatch by Rolex, housed in a 925 Sterling Silver Officer’s Case attributed to the renowned London case importer George ...

After the end of the First World War, Lalique's colorful and fantastic jewelry were no longer in fashion.

Completing his grammar school education in the classical humanities in Bielefeld in 1912, he moved to Berlin in 1914 and studied at the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts. During ...

His watercolor depictions of aircraft during the First World War were widely reproduced. He died on 22 April 1963 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne.

This new vision portrayed dismembered figures and facets created from the breaking into pieces of the various levels: it was the analytical cubism phase. After the First World War, B...

Argy-Rousseau began to work successfully with the material even before the First World War, after the war he founded a glass factory that had 20 employees at its peak.

He worked locally and exhibited at the Devon and Exeter Annual Exhibition at the Elands Gallery in the early 1900’s. During the First World War he joined the Devonshire Regiment and ...