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Women are your friends. You get along with them even though they may disagree. Without chocolate you suffer, and get grumpy when your days don't start early. It is important to understand that your constitution may be stronger th...

Women are your friends. You get along with them even though they may disagree. Without chocolate you suffer, and get grumpy when your days don't start early. It is important to understand that your constitution may be stronger than you thought. Liste...

By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring`s original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colours, and graffiti-inspired carto...

The Boy King’s Journey through the Underworld. Tutankhamun’s royal voyage into paradise, as told by ancient Egyptian treasures Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tu...

"I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I am far more to people than just someone who paints pictures." Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) was one of the most complex artists of the 80s and 90s. His œuvre could not be reduced to any on...

A radical innovator, a pioneer of new artistic form German expressionist painter and graphic artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), co-founder of the Brücke movement, produced some of the most outstanding woodcuts and powerful expressionis...

Bridging the gap. Expressionist pioneer Ernst Ludwig Kirchner heralded a new perspective in 20th-century painting Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German Expressionist pioneer, a prolific painter and printmaker, and cofounder of Die Brücke movemen...

Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements The delightfully unclassifiable work of a master painter Designated as "degenerate" by the Nazis, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is today considered one of the most important artists of the 20th ce...

Thinking eye. A unique language of symbols, literature, and light  With careful theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolours, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most cerebral and prolific leaders of 20th-ce...

"A new world calls for a new man" In the mid-Fifties, Yves Klein (1928-1962) conquered the world of art, declaring that "a new world calls for a new man". His idiosyncratic style and huge charisma set him on a youthful career i...

Gustav Klimt’s art is thoroughly fin de siècle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna’s upper-middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstati...

The feminine world. The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt’s ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna’s upper-middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century — a society devoted to the cul...

Gold, flowers, and female beauty. The work of the decadent Austrian symbolist The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he wo...

Curate your home: Print Set Klimt This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most...

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22 set on its eagle’s-nest site high above the lights of Los Angeles. With his two innovative houses for the famous project of the Arts a...