The Prisoner

This attire was specifically worn by members of this religious community, who were historically involved in assisting prisoners and the impoverished, embodying the virtue of redempti...

In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there unti...

In the late 19th century the majority of carpet weaving took place within the jails with the long-term prisoners being used for this activity. Measures: 15'6" x 31'9".   

His adoption of the term Art Brut or raw art, referred to the art of children, prisoners, and the mentally ill, was a reaction to what he called art culturel or refined art.

Based in Brussels at the commission's headquarters she recorded the commission's post-war relief work in north west Europe including the rehabilitation and repatriation of prisoners ...

Among his works, we can cite The Eternal Prisoner (1949), Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1956), The Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (196...

These incredibly proportioned earrings take no prisoners. The neat clip on top dropping away dramatically to a five rows of crystals culminating in a wave of marquise fancy cut cryst...

Bouraine on the side and at the back numbered with 66 Artist's alternative names: Marcel André Bouraine, Marcel Antoine Bouraine, Matto, Briand The measurement is 22 cm high, 9 c...

Emil Wachter About the artist Emil Wachter began studying theology and philosophy in Freiburg in 1941, but was drafted into the army in 1942 and taken prisoner by the British, s...

They are frequently associated as children of the massive wolf, Fenrir, who is a prisoner to the Norse gods and ultimately breaks free, kills Odin, and is subsequently killed, himsel...

Hannes Messemer, born Hans Edwin Messemer (Dillingen an der Donau, 1924 - Aachen, 1991) German actor, prolific character actor, active on the big screen since the mid-1950s, Hannes M...

During his episcopate, he completed the vault of the choir in the Cathedral of Córdoba and was known for his austerity and charity towards the poor, the sick, and prisoners. Bishop ...

In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there unti...

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.

He served in the RAF as a tail gunner in Lancaster bombers in World War II, but spent almost the entire war as a prisoner of war at Stalag 383. During this period he became friends w...

In 1914 Bredow stayed in Buenos Aires for a few months.[3] During the First World War (possibly on the return journey from South America) he was taken prisoner by the British on the ...

During World War II Fry was a committed conscientious objector who worked in forestry alongside the German and Italian prisoners of War. Fry was later employed as a retoucher on the...

Hannes Messemer, born Hans Edwin Messemer (Dillingen an der Donau, 1924 - Aachen, 1991) German actor, prolific character actor, active on the big screen since the mid-1950s, Hannes M...

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.

Serving as a soldier, he was wounded in battle and taken prisoner. At the end of the war, he was given the Knight of the Order of Leopold cross and the Knight of the Legion of Honour...

His father was Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Skinner, an officer in the East India Company Army of Scottish origin, while his mother was a Rajput princess, daughter of a Zamindar, she ...

The most powerful Beys form parties amongst the rest, with which they frequently make war amongst themselves; the victorious faction generally keep the Pacha almost as a prisoner, an...

In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there unti...

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.

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.

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.