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Art From Antiquity Until Today

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Every day we are confronted with art, but who knows really what is behind it? Since the beginning of mankind, art has an important cultural and social influence. But what is art? Tips from the experts has embark on the search for clues – and found from ancient times until today some amazing relationships! You can do this all on tips-read from the experten.de. The smile of the Mona Lisa, although already 500 years old, attracts daily thousands of viewers captivated. The fat Chair by Joseph Beuys, is considered as a masterpiece, is devalued but still with malice and criticism as “Abomination”. So, what is art? And why was and is art so immensely important for social development? Tips from the experts, to go in a multipage report on the ground trying these and other questions.

There are not only a profound attempt, why art has accomplished a decisive step in the evolution of humankind at the beginning, but also as the history of the today’s society has shaped. Already Pablo Picasso has replied to the question: “What is art?” can give only one response: “you expect from me, you say, I’ll define you: what is art?” If I knew, I would keep it for me!” Still, the article on, the story of attempts to explain the essence and meaning of art also for laymen of the fine arts and discuss. In addition to the individual epochs of history of art, there are many tips and explanations of the most important artists and museums around the world. The American painter earn tried Kollar, making the art itself can be explained and to discover the most beautiful secret of the world with simple and understandable words. Well-known and notable artists and their works are exclusively presented in this report. An excursion which offers an exciting and instructive look into the world of art and culture also art inexperienced users and raises some question with amazing answers! Editor: Patricia Kurz image: archive Wolfgang Lehner

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Felix Kuetgens

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1820 apartment Bastine’s Aachen apartment where by Johann Joseph Couven in his Rococo style built first Aachen Schauspielhaus at the Kat Saini. 1748 to 1751 Couven remodels the House of the Drapers Guild, the Gewandhaus in a comedy. He inserts a mansard roof, which provides space for the Auditorium. The ground floor apartment of Bastine is located directly adjacent to the decorative room. in 1826, he cannot be built a House on theater Street.

City architect Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel approved Bastines building application on 13 July 1826, because the project is his status as an artist. Portrait painter Bastine in Aachen on the theatre Street 16 dies Bastine 60 years old on the night of Sunday, the 14 January 1844 in Aachen on a lung punch lives until his death. The founder of the renowned Aachener drawing school and the first Aachen portrait painter of the 19th century is buried in a grave of series on the Aachen-based East cemetery. Work before 1811 malt Bastine the return of Tobias. His reminiscence of David and borrowings from Salvator Rosa are obvious.

This individual school work is the trends of classicism, at the beginning of his traditional oeuvre, Biedermeier and realism exhibit. He treated landscape, portrait and genre subjects. in 1900, Alfons Fritz proves that comes from Bastine designed the portico relief of the Aachen municipal theatre. Bastine manufactures a large drawing according to the sketch by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Style Museum Director Dr. Felix Kuetgens feels the older built in 1817 in the portraits by Bastine especially where the cloth manufacturer Ignaz van Houtem more kinship with Bastines elder Academy colleague Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres as with David. This proves Ingres self-portrait.” His nature studies is indicative of Ingres. “Portrait of Bastines Mayor of Guaita and daughter” 1817 considered the only monumental double portrait in the Rhineland. Bastine portrays Cornelius von Guaita and daughter Maria Catharina Josepha in 1817.