Karl Wiener — House in Meadow | Modernist Illustration Print

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Karl Wiener — House in Meadow | Modernist Illustration 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

and ornament

flat planes of colour

he believed pure abstraction could express universal harmony

and the certainty that art could change how people live

gas stations

these posters promoted American jazz

Emilio Pettoruti (1892–1971) was an Argentine painter who studied in Florence and became the most important early practitioner of Cubism in Latin America

His "new woodblock" works revolutionized Japanese printmaking

it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design

A regular exhibitor at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery

Persian carpet

the Chester Beatty Library

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