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  • Crystals reveal the geometrical side to nature. In art, the theme of crystals combines the abstract and the figurative, because in crystals the abstract is at the same time nature. In the 1910s, crystalline shapes emerged as a symbol of a utopian departure into the domain of the transcendental. In Expressionism in particular, artists sought to enhance the simple life by artistic means – just as carbon turns into diamond crystals. The crystalline is to be found as a leitmotif in various artistic movements: By means of ›prismaism‹, Lyonel Feininger gives space crystalline form in his paintings; Max Ernst has the mineralogical shape radiate cosmologically in all directions; and in his monumental canvas ›The Star‹ Fritz Winter expands it into outer space.
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Works
Erotik
  • Belling, Rudolf / Bildgießerei Hermann Noack

  • Erotik, 1920

Paysage
Les dieux obscurs
Leuchtbake I
Dorf Alt-Sallenthin
Feuer bei Vollmond
Makrostruktur
Makrostruktur
Makrostruktur
Der Stern