Maurita Cornelis Escher, also known as M. C. Escher was born to George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman onJune 17, 1898 at the Dutch province of Friesland in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. M. C. Escher was the youngest of three sons.
In 1903, Escher started learning carpentry and piano until he was thirteen years old. In 1912 Escher started secondary school in the small town of Arnhem. He worked for carpenters and wood workers. This became very helpful in his future work with prints and wood cuts. It also helped to build Escher’s self-confidence. Escher had very poor grades, but he was very interested in drawing. His teacher took interest in his ability to draw and taught him how to make linocuts. Escher failed his final exams and never graduated. He was a poor student in mathematics and science. The only classes he enjoyed were art. In 1918, Escher attended Technical College in Delft. He put his military career on hold so he could study but his bad health kept him from getting his studies done. In 1919, Escher began attending Harlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts,...
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born of peasant stock, in Mensenschwad, a small village in Germany’s Black Forest. His early training, as an apprentice in a studio in Freiburg, began when he was thirteen. He learned engraving and he supported himself as a lithographer, while he studied painting in Munich (nga, par.1). Even though he is known to be an academic painter, this seems to be a contradiction, as Webster’s Dictionary states that an academic painter followed rules and conventions, while a painter from the Romantic Movement broke away from convention and painted more by feeling and freedom of form, which is what Winterhalter did.
As a boy Johannes worked and studied with his father and learnt lessons from books with his mother, with whom he would play ?four-hands? at the piano, ?just for fun.? There were never any doubts as to his becoming a musician. From early childhood he learn everything his father could teach him, read everything he could lay hands on, practiced with undeviating enthusiasm, and filled reams of paper with exercises and variations. The soul of the child went out in music. He played scales long before he knew the notes, and great was his joy when at the age of six he discovered the possibility of making a melody visible by placing black dots on lines at different intervals, inventing a system of notation of his own before he had been made acquainted with the method which the musical world had been using for some centuries.
Carle had a happy childhood in America. However, he moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old and attended the prestigious art school Akademie der Bildenden Künste. In 1952 he moved back to New York to return to the happy place where he grew up. He was then recruited as a graphic designer by The New York Times before he was enrolled as a mail clerk in the Korean War. Once he returned, he worked as the art director for an advertising agency (“Eric Carle”).
The artist who would go on to be known as Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland, not far from the French border, as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris on October 6, 1887. His father worked in the prosperous watch making industry in Switzerland while his mother worked as a musician and piano teacher. Le Corbusier’s family history and the area of Switzerland he called home growing up would greatly influence his work. His first influence came from his local art school where he studied under Charles L'Eplattenier who Le Corbusier would cite as one of the greatest influence of his work. Le Corbusier initially studied engraving and wanted to be a painter but L’Eplanttenier encouraged him to pursue architecture and design. Despite the influence and knowledge he gained in Switzerland, he would feel the need to travel throughout his life to gain a broader knowledge of architecture for his work. He would study in France, Italy, Germany, and Austria among many others becoming fluent in several languages. He would be influenced by the conditions of people living in poverty during his travels and gained his interest in urban planning.
As the German painter and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz conveyed in her statement that the art she created held the burden of transfiguration. The fixation of sorrow and hardship that occurred while she sat huddled with the children was the driving force of her drawings. Her realization that art could not only be an escape from the horror happenings in Germany such as the rationing of food and the starving-to-death children at that time was also a way to voice her opinion of change and revolution. It was the quest, in which she enamored in her drawings and it is this feeling that I value from it. I choose this artist because she delineated the various circumstances surrounding the human individual, she took into account perspectives that involved life with its tragedies, and the lives of little angel children. Her drawings and sculptures were prepared to emulate and capture what her eyes had seen while she was in Germany and this is why I had taken a likening to her drawings. The two artworks that I am specifying in this research paper is the drawing labeled “Germany's children starve!” and”Self-Portrait, Hand at the Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)”.
AUTHOR: Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936), was a German philosopher who acquired his conservative views from his father, a postal official in Germany. Spengler attended the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Halle in Germany, where he studied natural science and mathematics. In 1903, he wrote his dissertation on a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus, though he failed due to a lack of references. Spengler resubmitted his revised thesis in 1904, earning him his doctorate degree. Shortly after earning his degree, Spengler suffered a mental break down, secluding himself from the world. In 1906, he recovered and began working as a teacher in secondary schools until he received some money from his mother. In 1911, Spengler gathered his inheritance and moved to Munich as a private scholar.
In the case Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County, the petitioner, Michael M., was charged with statutory rape in the state of California. He then claimed the state’s statute unconstitutionally discriminated against him because he was male. At the time, Michael M. had sex with a 16-year-old girl while he was 17. The young girl was not condemned. He claimed the law violated the Equal Protection Clause stated in the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution. This clause says every state has to grant everyone the same rights and conditions as every citizen. The question is, does the statutory rape statute of California violate the Equal Protection Clause?
He uses extreme methods to attract attention to his artwork and in doing so, challenged the social norms. In his early life, Sagmeister had been keeping a running list of life-learnings in a diary titled ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far’. Eventually, he translated these private thoughts into a series of typographic artworks and public installations that shocked society, exploring everything from obsession, confidence and love; the list of quotes was influenced by the personal experiences he gained throughout his life. However, the hidden message behind these works was left open for
was born in Philadelphia in 1883. His received a decent education in industrial drawing and the applied arts at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. He then traveled to Europe several times with his fellow students in the following years to pursue advanced studies and strengthen his knowledge. In 1910, Sheeler developed a strong passion in photography and taught himself to become a freelance photographer, taking interior photographs of his apartment and documenting local buildings for architects. He later started shooting celebrity portrait and fashion photograph for magazines and advertising firms. He had achieved great accomplishments, which naturally made photography the main income source to support his living. Throughout that time, Sheeler also formed strong, lasting relationships with some important figures in the New York art business to develop his career. However, he was still struggling to gain respect and approval as a painter. His dealer—Edith Harplet, who was fully aware of Sheller’s situation; suggested him to make a transition to place his full attention on brushes.3 This was absolutely a devastated moment for Sheeler, he had realized that his beloved photography must be given up in order to move up his career to another level, but he hesitated to make the decision. However, his determination of being a good painter got the better of
skills and used different techniques with each skill. For example he showed strong late Gothic elements that dominate the visionary woodcuts of his Apocalypse series (Durer Biography Online). Not only did Durer enjoy his work as an artist, but was interested in science. He contributed to the study of science with his research in mathematics and geometry. Durer had a great appreciation for nature and was interested in exploring the world. Durer began studying with his father and at the age of fifteen became an apprentice to the p...
George Auguste Escoffier was born on October 28th, 1846 in Villeneuve-Loubet, France (Mhyrvold). His father was Jean-Baptiste Escoffier, a blacksmith, and his mother was Madeline Civatte (Escoffier and Child 4). Originally the young Escoffier had thoughts of becoming a painter or a sculptor, as he did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps in the forge primarily due
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen Prussia. He was the son of a prosperous Jewish family. Ismar Ehrlich and Rosa (Weigert) Ehrlich, Paul's parents, were both from scientific backgrounds. It was not surprising that he had an attraction to the realm of science. Paul Ehrlich looked up to his cousin Karl Weigert. Paul began primary school at St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium at the age of six. He graduated at in 1872. After his graduation, he attended the University of Breslau for a semester then transferred to the University of Strassburg. With help
While in Germany he learned to speak full German and was very observant. After the war was over Rudolf moved back to Paris, when suddenly his sister died with a heart failure. Rudolf’s family decided it would be best if he stayed with his aunt and uncle longer, so rudolf moved back. Rudolf said his father was a whole different person and wasn 't he wasn 't a pleasure to be around. While in Germany, Rudolf found he really enjoyed arts and spent a lot of time in art museums, but it was only shortly after that when he found out he was interested in engineering. He was only 14 years old when he declared he wanted to be an engineer, and wrote his parents a letter to tell them the news. Rudolf then went on studying in the magnetic field, to follow his dreams.
Leonhard Paul Euler was born the son of a pastor on April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland. Soon after he was born, his family moved to Riehen, where Leonhard would spend most of his childhood. Leonhard’s father, Paul, was good friends with the Bernoulli family, whose patriarch, Johann Bernoulli, was then viewed as Europe’s leading mathematician. Bernoulli would eventually become a great influence on Leonhard’s life. When Leonhard was thirteen, he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother in Basel, where he enrolled in the University of Basel and eventually earned his Master’s in Philosophy, and wrote his dissertation comparing the philosophies of Newton and Descartes. Euler was following in his father’s footsteps, studying theology, Greek, and Hebrew, and was determined to become a pastor. However, Johann Bernoulli was convinced Euler was destined to become a great mathematician, and talked Paul Euler into letting his son pursue his own passio...
Auguste Escoffier Auguste Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the village of Villeneuve-Loubet, France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Escoffier and his wife Madeleine Civatte. His father was the village's blacksmith, farrier, locksmith, and maker of agricultural tools. Escoffier's childhood dream was to become a sculptor. Unfortunately, he was forced to give up that dream at the age of thirteen, just after he celebrated his first Holy Communion.