First World War

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

In the background, a chart compares the soaring “Cost of Living in Two Wars”—one line showing the sharp increases of the First World War, and the other a steadier path under the cont...

But even worse than the automobile was the real estate boom in the years before the First World War, as agriculture made way for “estates”—garish, private and hostile to horseback ri...

The design feels both architectural and inviting, a balance characteristic of Belgian decorative arts in the years following the First World War. The seat has been newly reupholster...

Although best known for his First World War memorials, his broader body of work reveals a strong sensitivity to form, monumentality, and expressive gesture.

Following his experiences during the First World War, he continued exhibiting throughout Austria and Europe and later served as a professor at the Royal Academy in Vienna.

This company achieved great national fame since during the First World War they produced ammunition boxes and sports gliders.

This work exemplifies Rehn’s mature graphic style and his engagement with existential and spiritual themes in the aftermath of the First World War, situating him among the more compe...

Today, this poster stands as an evocative example of pre-First World War French travel graphics, capturing the intersection of health tourism, regional identity, and the expanding in...

Born in Corfu in 1897, he trained on the island before moving to Paris after the First World War. Between 1918 and the mid-1930s he took an active part in the Parisian art scene and ...

Silvio, one of thirteen children, started working for the family business after the First World War. He was the main designer for the Cavatorta business, the furniture was mainly int...

Silvio, one of thirteen children, started working for the family business after the First World War. He was the main designer for the Cavatorta business, the furniture was mainly int...

In the period before the First World War, the young Georges Braque (1882-1963) and his friend Pablo Picasso spent eight years shaping what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in...

However, as with many artists, his career was interrupted by the First World War and in 1918 he was attached to the Royal Naval division as a war artist and posted to the Western Fro...

Most of his work was dedicated to the soldiers of the First World War. Measures: 25" W x 14" D x 19" H.

His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War: he volunteered in 1914, was wounded twice, and remained on active duty until the Armistice in 1918.

Some of his works include a series inspired by the poison gas attacks in the First World War and a collection of 304 erotic images of fictional popes on a large painting.

Glittering jewels were a joy following austerity measures during the First World War. This ring is contemporary, but made faithfully in the Art Deco style; even the reverse of the ri...

Dating to 1919, the image has an added poignancy as it is in sharp contrast to the tragedies of the First World War which had only ceased a year before this was painted.

After attending the Italian language Lyceum in Trieste, he fled to join the Italian army at the onset of the First World War and adopted the Italian name, Pagano.

The baroque palace was the summer residence of the kings and emperors of the empire from the mid-18th century until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and from 1804 until the e...

In fact, on his return from the first World War (where he had joined as a volunteer), he founded a factory which manufactured traditional lights fittings of wood or bronze and then q...

It was named after an international exhibition held in Paris in 1925, but there are some examples dating back to before the First World War. Art Deco followed another design style, A...

He worked at the Admiralty making drawings in the Airship department during the First World War. In 1919 he re-entered the Slade and was shortly invited by Professor Tonks to join th...

Her creations brought the factory back to the forefront of pottery innovation and provided middle-class consumers with an aesthetic escape during the years of the First World War. In...

He participated in the First World War fighting at the Western Front, luckily being just wounded and received a pension after he recovered.

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

The Exhibition was part of Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture curated by Jon Mogul at The FIU Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach FL -USA.

He was forced to interrupt the activity due to the outbreak of the First World War, during which he enlisted in the transalpine army.

Here, the scene depicts the daily life of this French cavalry during the First World War. They are probably officers sent on patrol in the French forests.

From 1910 he became interested in social theme painting and in 1914, coinciding with the beginning of the First World War, he decided to return to Spain to settle in Madrid, a city w...

He began his studies with Law but in 1917 he had to complete his military service and was badly wounded in the First World War. After the war he studied Art at the Art School in Graz.

In 1914 the artist was taken as a prisoner of war with other Austrian painters and spent the entire First World War in Siberia.

In 1914 the artist was taken as a prisoner of war with other Austrian painters and spent the entire First World War in Siberia.

Hilton was a self-taught painter and sculptor from Manchester whose practice developed across both abstract and Surrealist directions, while remaining rooted in observation of the na...

His work was influenced by African and Cycladic designs. In the First World War, he worked in camouflage design.

It is further inscribed “Gravé par Jacques Villon 1926” in the lower right platemark. After the First World War Jacques Villon engraved a series of Aquatints after paintings of the ...

At the beginning of his career, he was a representative of the Neue Sachlichkeit. After the First World War, he decided to destroy his entire hitherto created body of work.

From 1910 he became interested in social theme painting and in 1914, coinciding with the beginning of the First World War, he decided to return to Spain to settle in Madrid, a city w...

Discover the rich history of Antique Peking Rugs, a tradition that found its roots in China shortly after the conclusion of the First World War. During this era, Chinese rug weaving ...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

There was a push for all things modern after the shock of the First World War - people wanted to be cleansed of the old and celebrate the new.

This typifies the taste for understated domestic genre scenes prevalent in popular British painting preceding the First World War. Later this was termed the ‘golden age’ and now seen...

German barracks, where Allied officers had been stationed during the First World War, were placed at the Berg en Bosch villa.

During his secondary studies in Lier, he was taught by Raymond Delahaye and later pursued further training at the Normal School in Lier. After the First World War, he returned to Ant...

He contributed to the wall-newspaper "Swillbin," a tradition from the First World War, and designed army Christmas cards.

He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes.

In Paris he trained and worked with the great ironworkers Edgar Brandt and Raymond Subes, absorbing their technical refinement before opening his own atelier and showroom in the rue ...

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 ...

He briefly attended the School of Fine Arts in Odessa, and studied law and art history at Odessa University prior to the outbreak of the first World War. During this period, Hosiass...

The baroque palace was the summer residence of the kings and emperors of the empire from the mid-18th century until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and from 1804 until the e...

After leaving school he was apprenticed in the drawing office of the engineering firm Vickers, and eventually became a member of the Institute of Naval Architects. Shortly after the ...

Three post cards depict military parades in Potsdam, and predate the Nazi regime, seven depict memorials the First World War, and one of the remaining postcards depict Prince August ...

The original 1883 glass house was destroyed during the First World War. Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot (1883, Solingen - 1960, Cologne) a architect who specialized in interior desi...

Probably Grosz's most famous illustrated book, in which the whole range of social diseases afflicting Germany in the aftermath of the First World War was catalogued. It caused its a...

Masson was severely wounded in the First World War and was deeply scarred emotionally.

Masson was severely wounded in the First World War and was deeply scarred emotionally.

He was one of the artists whom historian Louis Hautecoeur called "the painters of French Africa". After the First World War, Jean Bouchaud travelled throughout the Maghreb, sub-Sah...

Angelika Taschen takes us to hidden gems across Mozambique, South Africa, and Ethiopia; from a Tanzanian coffee plantation, where guests can enjoy the ultimate Arabica brew in breath...