DETAILS
- Artist
- Carl Grossberg
- Date
- 1929
- Location
- Busch–Reisinger Museum
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THE ARTIST
Carl Grossberg
1894–1940 · German ReichBauhaus-trained painter who found beauty in boiler houses and transformed industrial Germany into precise art.
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Ivan Puni · 1929 · Art Institute of Chicago
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American Gothic
Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Straße mit Passanten bei Nachtbeleuchtung
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1927 · Museum Frieder Burda
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Fleeing Ghost
Paul Klee · 1929 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Abstraction: Background with Blue Cloudy Sky
Pablo Picasso · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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American Gothic
Grant Wood · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Circus Rider
Marc Chagall · 1927 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Lemons on a Pewter Plate
Henri Matisse · 1926 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Eye
René Magritte · 1932 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Blue Forest
Max Ernst · 1925 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Untitled (Desert Landscape)
Salvador Dalí · 1934 · Art Institute of Chicago
