The youngster in his company — still a teen and kept out of the brothels by the other men in his unit, Hagen will, by the end of the war, be considered one of the “old men,” one of the few from the original company to survive. He will endure shelling, gas attacks, relentless ...
Arts and Artists in World War I: the title alone of the exhibition, held at the Vaszary Villa in the town of Balatonf眉red between October 2014 and January 2015, was intended to convey the scope and variety of the works on display in terms of genre, underlying motivation, and even of ...
World War I - Last Offensives, Allies Victory: The Second Battle of the Somme was a partially successful German offensive against British and French forces. The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major offensive launched by the Germans but the count
Visual artists like Otto Dix of Germany and British painters Wyndham Lewis, Paul Nash and David Bomberg used their firsthand experience as soldiers in World War I to create their art, capturing the anguish of trench warfare and exploring the themes of technology, violence and landscapes decimated...
With World War I commemorations taking place last weekend, so we thought it fitting to take a look at one of the city’s memorials. Located in Hyde Park, the Cavalry Memorial (also known as the Cavalry of the Empire Memorial), which commemorates the more than 4,000 members of the caval...
Significant artworks by widely recognized names, including Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Picasso, and Max Beckmann are exhibited alongside lesser-known and unfamiliar works and artists. The result is an exhibition of breadth and diversity. RoomOne plunges us into mud, water, death, and debris. ...
VII. The War and the Influenza Pandemic Even as war raged on the Western Front, a new deadly threat loomed: influenza. In the spring of 1918, a strain of the flu virus appeared in the farm country of Haskell County, Kansas, and hit nearby Camp Funston, one of the largest army trainin...
,art,CRW Nevinson,FranceSotheby's,war artists| Welsh memorial for 1917 VC winner October 20, 2017DH Some 100 years after he won the Victoria Cross in Belgium, a soldier from Ceredigion has been honoured with a memorial in his home county. ...
Categories Long Reviews Tags art, artists, Charlotte Salomon, Germany, memoir, World War Two A Significant Experience, by Gwyn Griffin (1963) 25 March 2022 “One of the most ardent pursuits of man is finding excuses to persecute other people.” This chilling observation by Laurie Lee forms the...
In January 1961, just 3 months before Bay of Pigs invasion, two Soviet artists, V. Ivanov and P. Ossovsky visited Cuba to create images of the besieged nation, anxiously awaiting the imminent US intervention.>>More Japanese 1904-1905 War Engravings ...