The Prisoner

Ottoman areas of Anatolia and Attica tended to enslave Christians from the Black Sea and the Balkans, often prisoners of war.  Therefore, the existence of the three figures to the ri...

At the beginning of the Second World War, in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the British and transferred to India at Camp 27 of Yol on the slopes of the Himalayas.

It is said of his work that “he looked to the margins of the everyday – the art of prisoners, psychics, the uneducated, and the institutionalized – to liberate his own creativity and...

They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth....

Kapsalis (born 1922) has been an important artist and educator since the late ’40s, when he graduated from the School of the Art Institute. A prisoner of war in Germany, captured dur...

He has the same position as:Barbarian prisoner Thusnelda, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence Early 2nd cent.

When these powerful creatures argue over territory, they take no prisoners and the artist has captured the muscular physique and natural fighting pose of these wild animals like only...

The art flourished under Akbar, who was a big supporter of arts and culture in India. Even prisoners in the country were taught to make these luxurious floor coverings.

The art flourished under Akbar, who was a big supporter of arts and culture in India. Even prisoners in the country were taught to make these luxurious floor coverings.

The art flourished under Akbar, who was a big supporter of arts and culture in India. Even prisoners in the country were taught to make these luxurious floor coverings.

When Potiphar came home, she accused Joseph of trying to force himself on her, and Potiphar put Joseph in the prison where the king’s prisoners were held.(Genesis 39:16–20) Frame he...

We were fortunate to have help from a female Shibari or Hojojutsu expert from Japan (the art of binding a prisoner of war) to create this wonderful structure that holds him.

Among his most famous engravings are: • Sharpshooter on Picket Duty (1862) • Prisoners from the Front (1866, later developed into a painting) • The Army of the Potomac—A Sharp-Shoo...

As a 16-year-old Martin was used in 1943 as a Luftwaffenhelfer, towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Bernstein School in Glatt with H...

As a 16-year-old Martin was used in 1943 as a Luftwaffenhelfer, towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Bernstein School in Glatt with H...

I teach art in prison I see painting holding together the lives of life prisoners. I have huge faith in its power and same time I am humbled by it every time I go into the studio”.

Conscripted in 1936, he served in the war and was a prisoner in Germany until 1943. Since 1944 he has divided his time between Paris and his family home in Tremblay-sur-Mauldre.

In 1925 he received an honourable mention for his figure Femme à la Herrade. After being a prisoner during the First World War, Jouanneault returned to sculpture and received nume...

In December 2007, Fairey created a print for Witness Against Torture to protest the Bush Administration’s creation of a camp for prisoners of the War on Terror at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Arrested by the British as a spy in 1776, Salomon parlayed his forced position as an interpreter for the Hessians to help prisoners of the British escape and encouraged the Hessians ...

With the announcement of the armistice of 8 September 1943 and the disbanding of the Italian army, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to concentration camps first in the N...

In 1916 he is taken prisoner in the north of Vienna but he manages to escape and he finally moves to London.

With the announcement of the armistice of 8 September 1943 and the disbanding of the Italian army, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to concentration camps first in the N...

Still on the theme linked to war , but with a changed style with more dramatic and expressionist tones , in the fifties he created a series of sculptures inspired by the theme of the...

Stoneman, during which Salisbury, with its stores and the Federal prisoners con-fined there, fell into Union hands. The regiment was mustered out on Nov. 14, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn...

The craft flourished in what would have been the otherwise idle hands of French prisoners held by the English during the Napoleonic wars.