Karl Wiener — Lantern and Three Birds | Modernist Sketch Print

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Karl Wiener — Lantern and Three Birds | Modernist Sketch PrintKarl Wiener (19011949) was an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator whose work spanned modernist abstraction, book illustration, and decorative design in Interwar Vienna. His output from the introspective From My Life series to his charming architectural sketches and spare figurative works reflects the cultural richness and formal experimentation of Viennese modernism between the wars. Working in the tradition of the Vienna Secession but with his

They are documents of place and time as much as works of art

Jan Brandes (1743–1808) was a Dutch Reformed minister and self-taught draughtsman who accompanied the Dutch East India Company to Batavia and Ceylon in the 1770s and 1780s

primary colours (red

Moholy-Nagy

and the modernist imagination of Weimar Germany

and dramatic typography

Karl Wiener (1901–1949) was an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator whose work spanned modernist abstraction

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technically accomplished depictions of breaking waves and coastal seascapes

and space were understood

and empty streets the visual language of modern alienation and interior life

000 couplets narrating the mythological and historical kings of Persia from creation to the Islamic conquest

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