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Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot
Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot

Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot

By Karl Albert Buehr

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Return to Chicago Buehr returned to Chicago late in 1913 or around the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He resumed teaching at the School of the Art Institute and became one ...

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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Floor Lamp 1915, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Sign Muller
Floor Lamp 1915, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Sign Muller

Floor Lamp 1915, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Sign Muller

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

Production ceased at the start of the First World War during which Eugene was killed.

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Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Floor Lamps

Materials

Iron

Vase Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, liberty
Vase Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, liberty

Vase Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Muller Frères Antique Vase, Acid Worked Glass, Art Deco, France, 1925
Muller Frères Antique Vase, Acid Worked Glass, Art Deco, France, 1925

Muller Frères Antique Vase, Acid Worked Glass, Art Deco, France, 1925

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Vase, Sign: Muller frères Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Vase, Sign: Muller frères Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Vase, Sign: Muller frères Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Lunevile, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Lunevile, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Lunevile, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Alfred Reth. Abstract composition. ca. 1928. Oil on canvas. 64 x 50 cm.
Alfred Reth. Abstract composition. ca. 1928. Oil on canvas. 64 x 50 cm.

Alfred Reth. Abstract composition. ca. 1928. Oil on canvas. 64 x 50 cm.

By Alfred Reth

Located in Barcelona, CT

Alfred Reth (Budapest, 1884 – Paris, 1966) was a French painter of Hungarian origin, less well-known than the other founders of Cubism due largely to his discretion and taciturn natu...

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1920s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vase Muller Frères (Applications in silver), Art Deco, Silver applications
Vase Muller Frères (Applications in silver), Art Deco, Silver applications

Vase Muller Frères (Applications in silver), Art Deco, Silver applications

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Glass

Materials

Silver

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Table Lamp, 1900, Silver Plated Metal, Sign: Rouseau / Muller
Table Lamp, 1900, Silver Plated Metal, Sign: Rouseau / Muller

Table Lamp, 1900, Silver Plated Metal, Sign: Rouseau / Muller

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

Production ceased at the start of the First World War during which Eugene was killed.

Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps

Materials

Art Glass

Betataken, Anasazi Places, New Mexico
Betataken, Anasazi Places, New Mexico

Betataken, Anasazi Places, New Mexico

By Stuart Klipper

Located in San Francisco, CA

Other undertakings include extensively photographing the First World War cemeteries and memorials of the Western Front, major physics and astronomy research installations throughout ...

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1980s Naturalistic Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Galleons at sea antique 19th century oil painting on panel by Sir Frank Brangwyn
Galleons at sea antique 19th century oil painting on panel by Sir Frank Brangwyn

Galleons at sea antique 19th century oil painting on panel by Sir Frank Brangwyn

By Sir Frank Brangwyn

Located in St. Albans, GB

This was followed by a mosaic for the apse of St Aidan's Church in Leeds, a mural for the British Rooms at the Venice Biennale, a painted frieze at the Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice and ...

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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Original Etching by AC Webb Paris of Mather Tower Chicago
Original Etching by AC Webb Paris of Mather Tower Chicago

Original Etching by AC Webb Paris of Mather Tower Chicago

Located in Dallas, TX

He later attended the Art Students League of New York and worked with Dan Barber, a New York architect. During the First World War he served with the American Engineering Forces i...

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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Drawings

Materials

Parchment Paper

'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism, Signed Lithograph
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism, Signed Lithograph

'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism, Signed Lithograph

By Thomas Hart Benton

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

“When I came out of the Navy after the First World War,” he said, “I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating t...

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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney

Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney

By Georges Rouault

Located in Dallas, TX

By the beginning of the First World War Rouault was turning more and more away from watercolor and oil on paper towards oil and canvas and he applied his paint through thick, rich, l...

Category

Vintage 1930s French Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Paint

Giverny, American Impressionist, Karl Albert Buehr, Expatriot, c. 1910
Giverny, American Impressionist, Karl Albert Buehr, Expatriot, c. 1910

Giverny, American Impressionist, Karl Albert Buehr, Expatriot, c. 1910

By Karl Albert Buehr

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Return to Chicago Buehr returned to Chicago late in 1913 or around the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He resumed teaching at the School of the Art Institute and became one ...

Category

1910s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used...

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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Edgar Degas, Sketch of Dancers, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Sketch of Dancers, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Sketch of Dancers, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used...

Category

1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Edgar Degas, Melina Darde, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Melina Darde, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Melina Darde, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used...

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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salud Johnny - Inspirational Portrait of a Lone Soldier Staring Out at Viewer
Salud Johnny - Inspirational Portrait of a Lone Soldier Staring Out at Viewer

Salud Johnny - Inspirational Portrait of a Lone Soldier Staring Out at Viewer

By William Blake (b. 1991)

Located in Chicago, IL

Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting, Blake uses oil and linen to depict US Marines’ reenacting the 1922 Marine Corps at the Gettysburg battlefield...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting
Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting

Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting

By Jacob Kramer

Located in Hagley, England

In London, Kramer rapidly became well known in the hedonistic artistic circles that dominated before the First World War and was to be seen frequently at well-known artistic haunts, ...

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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

British Hunt Scene Oil Painting “Off to the Meet” by Lionel Dalhousie Edwards
British Hunt Scene Oil Painting “Off to the Meet” by Lionel Dalhousie Edwards

British Hunt Scene Oil Painting “Off to the Meet” by Lionel Dalhousie Edwards

By Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards

Located in Shippensburg, PA

His involvement in the First World War as a Remount Purchasing Officer provided further insight into equine behavior and form under conditions far removed from the hunt field, and he...

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20th Century English Sporting Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

The Italian Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1924
The Italian Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1924

The Italian Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1924

By Charles Picart le Doux

Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR

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

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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1940s Italian Ardengo Soffici Signed Landscape Painting
1940s Italian Ardengo Soffici Signed Landscape Painting

1940s Italian Ardengo Soffici Signed Landscape Painting

By Ardengo Soffici

Located in Roma, IT

The Florence group resented the dominance of Marinetti and Boccioni, whom they accused of trying to establish "an immobile church with an infallible creed", and each group dismissed ...

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1940s Italian School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Brittany Coast
Brittany Coast

Brittany Coast

By Pierre LeLong

Located in Sheffield, MA

She died when Pierre was six years old, at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Pierre was brought up largely by his grandmother, Madeleine Collot and his great-aunt Huguette.

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Route de Montagne
Route de Montagne

Route de Montagne

By Robert Deborne

Located in London, GB

The Deborne family moved to Corsica in 1911, but the happiness was not to last. Shortly before the First World War, Deborne abandoned his family on the island and returned to his bir...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Drypoint Etching by Max Beckmann - Jacob wrestling with the Angel
Drypoint Etching by Max Beckmann - Jacob wrestling with the Angel

Drypoint Etching by Max Beckmann - Jacob wrestling with the Angel

By Max Beckmann

Located in Point Richmond, CA

Beckmann designed an etching in 1920, one year after the First World War. He blends the Jacob's dream at Betel (Gen 28) and the Jacob's fight in the ford of the Wadi Jabbok (Gen 32) ...

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Vintage 1920s German Expressionist Prints

Materials

Paper

GEORGE ADAM SCHEID 1900 Art Nouveau Joseph Maria Auchentaller Enameled Box
GEORGE ADAM SCHEID 1900 Art Nouveau Joseph Maria Auchentaller Enameled Box

GEORGE ADAM SCHEID 1900 Art Nouveau Joseph Maria Auchentaller Enameled Box

By Georg Adam Scheid

Located in Miami, FL

Robert and his younger brother Ludwig (1886-1960) then assumed the management. After the First World War, fall of the overseas market for the decoration sector and the bad economic s...

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Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes

Materials

Silver, Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Les Bords de Seine (The Banks of the Seine)
Les Bords de Seine (The Banks of the Seine)

Les Bords de Seine (The Banks of the Seine)

By Henri Ottmann

Located in London, GB

Ottmann’s oeuvre before the First World War was heavily influenced by the French Impressionist movement, particularly the works of Renoir, and he often exhibited within this artistic...

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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney

Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney

By Georges Rouault

Located in Dallas, TX

By the beginning of the First World War Rouault was turning more and more away from watercolor and oil on paper towards oil and canvas and he applied his paint through thick, rich, l...

Category

1930s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Paint

Twilight in Gibraltar, 19th Century Marine Oil Painting on Canvas
Twilight in Gibraltar, 19th Century Marine Oil Painting on Canvas

Twilight in Gibraltar, 19th Century Marine Oil Painting on Canvas

By Laurits Bernhard Holst

Located in Stockholm, Stockholm

At the same time, cracks were beginning to show: social tensions, technological change, and the geopolitical forces that would soon lead to the First World War. Gibraltar at the turn...

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Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Girl at the Window
Girl at the Window

Girl at the Window

By Adrian Paul Allinson

Located in London, GB

Allinson was medically unfit to serve in the First World War, but was also a committed pacifist and aligned himself with the other conscientious objectors of the Bloomsbury Group.

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20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

La Pointe de Bretteville
La Pointe de Bretteville

La Pointe de Bretteville

By Paul Berthon

Located in Fairlawn, OH

A large collection of his work seems to have been destroyed during the world wars. By the start of the First World War the Art Nouveau movement had lost its momentum.

Category

1890s Art Nouveau Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Poster project for the "XVe Salon des Artistes Décorateurs"
Poster project for the "XVe Salon des Artistes Décorateurs"

Poster project for the "XVe Salon des Artistes Décorateurs"

By Jean Dupas

Located in PARIS, FR

Mobilized in 1914 during the First World War, he was released in 1919, the year in which he returned to Rome for a final year, during which he presented about ten works in Bordeaux f...

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1920s Art Deco More Art

Materials

Paper

Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea)
Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea)

Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea)

Located in San Francisco, CA

The Lisieux municipal library houses a rare collective work, entitled Pages et croquis: 1914-1918, collecting texts and drawings, among which is the signature of René de Saint-Delis,...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

“A Norman Peasant’s Home”
“A Norman Peasant’s Home”

“A Norman Peasant’s Home”

Located in Southampton, NY

At the beginning of the First World War, Hezekiah was made chairman of the speaker’s bureau for the Food Administration of Rhode Island, and was later made chairman of the speaker’s ...

Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Sketch of the Flatiron Building
Sketch of the Flatiron Building

Sketch of the Flatiron Building

Located in London, GB

Despite his pioneering approach to colour and heavy use of impasto, which even put other artists off hanging their work next to his pieces at group shows, Wolmark continued to depict...

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20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica
Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica

Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica

By Stuart Klipper

Located in San Francisco, CA

Other undertakings include extensively photographing the First World War cemeteries and memorials of the Western Front, major physics and astronomy research installations throughout ...

Category

1980s Naturalistic Color Photography

Materials

C Print

1910's Heuer Vintage Large Mens Sporting / Aviator's Single Button Chronograph
1910's Heuer Vintage Large Mens Sporting / Aviator's Single Button Chronograph

1910's Heuer Vintage Large Mens Sporting / Aviator's Single Button Chronograph

By Heuer

Located in Suwanee, GA

When the first World War erupted, demand rose sharply for these novel wristwatches as Allied servicemen needed a more suitable way to a access their vital timepieces.

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Vintage 1910s Swiss Wrist Watches

Materials

Sterling Silver

Edgar Degas, Seated Dancer, Removing Her Slipper, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Seated Dancer, Removing Her Slipper, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Seated Dancer, Removing Her Slipper, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used...

Category

1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bespoke Walnut Burl Art Nouveau Display Cabinet by H. Pössenbacher
Bespoke Walnut Burl Art Nouveau Display Cabinet by H. Pössenbacher

Bespoke Walnut Burl Art Nouveau Display Cabinet by H. Pössenbacher

By Moritz Ballin

Located in Landshut, BY

The economic difficulties of the period after the First World War led to the closure of the shop at Brienner Strasse 55 in 1925.

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Vintage 1910s German Art Nouveau Vitrines

Materials

Glass, Wood, Walnut, Burl

Abstract Nue, French, Fautrier, 1957, lithograph, Annabelle Nue
Abstract Nue, French, Fautrier, 1957, lithograph, Annabelle Nue

Abstract Nue, French, Fautrier, 1957, lithograph, Annabelle Nue

By Jean Fautrier

Located in Fairlawn, OH

He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art before returning to France around the end of the First World War. His early work included portrait...

Category

1950s French School Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Giverny, American Impressionist, Expatriot, Karl Alberet Buehr, 1912
Giverny, American Impressionist, Expatriot, Karl Alberet Buehr, 1912

Giverny, American Impressionist, Expatriot, Karl Alberet Buehr, 1912

By Karl Albert Buehr

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Return to Chicago Buehr returned to Chicago late in 1913 or around the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He resumed teaching at the School of the Art Institute and became one ...

Category

1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Abstract Expressionist)
Untitled (Abstract Expressionist)

Untitled (Abstract Expressionist)

By Murray Hantman

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

He studied in Detroit for a year until his family abruptly moved to Alabama, interrupting his artistic and academic studies until the family moved to New York at the end of the first...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Fine French 19th-20th C. Marquetry Gilt-Bronze Mounted, François Linke Attr.
A Fine French 19th-20th C. Marquetry Gilt-Bronze Mounted, François Linke Attr.

A Fine French 19th-20th C. Marquetry Gilt-Bronze Mounted, François Linke Attr.

By François Linke

Located in Los Angeles, CA

He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers.

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Antique Early 1900s French Louis XV Vitrines

Materials

Bronze

1876 The Family of Serbs Russian Imperial Porcelain Manufacture August Spiess
1876 The Family of Serbs Russian Imperial Porcelain Manufacture August Spiess

1876 The Family of Serbs Russian Imperial Porcelain Manufacture August Spiess

Located in Malmö, SE

Close bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Russian Empire was one of the main factors that led to the beginning of the first World War that in its turn caused so...

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Antique 1870s Russian Empire Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville,  Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty

By Muller Frères

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

In the years leading up to the First World War their production was technically excellent and highly creative.

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used...

Category

1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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    Opinions on which World War II propaganda poster is the most famous differ. However, two posters introduced characters that would go on to become iconic. The first is "We Can Do It," featuring Rosie Riveter, who has become synonymous with women's equality. Another influential design is " I Want YOU For U.S. Army," with its bearded figure wearing a star-spangled top hat. The image gave birth to Uncle Sam, the well-known symbol of the U.S. On 1stDibs, find a range of WWII posters from some of the world's top galleries.
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    More than 200,000 propaganda posters were made during World War II. The Office of War Information (OWI) was responsible for hiring artists to design the artwork. Famous posters include “I Want You” for the U.S. Army, featuring the well-known Uncle Sam character, while the popular “We Can Do It!” design depicts Rosie the Riveter. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of World War II posters and other vintage and antique posters.
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    During World War II, the American flag was the 48-star flag used from 1912 (incorporation of New Mexico and Arizona) to 1959 (incorporation of Alaska). The rows and columns of stars were arranged in a regular pattern, unlike the offset rows of the modern American flag. On 1stDibs, you’ll find a collection of antique American flags from some of the world’s top sellers.