Lorenz Oken — Bird Eggs | Vintage 19th-Century Natural History Print

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Lorenz Oken — Bird Eggs | Vintage 19th-Century Natural History PrintLorenz Oken (17791851) was a German naturalist and philosopher of nature whose encyclopaedic Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fr alle Stnde (18331841) included hand coloured natural history plates of extraordinary precision and beauty. His bird egg illustrations are among the finest examples of 19th century scientific illustration each egg rendered with a jeweller's attention to surface texture, colouration, and form. Objects of scientific curiosity that

A rare intersection of early Kandinsky and the history of graphic design

the sacred skyline of Jerusalem at dusk — are among the most evocative Orientalist landscapes ever painted

His works — intimate

and malachite with a geometric and floral ornamental vocabulary of extraordinary intricacy

with Paul Gauguin

the Konstruktion series

this is a collector-grade piece

A regular exhibitor at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery

erotically charged canvases — The Kiss

His pioneering conviction that colour and form could carry emotional and spiritual meaning independently of any subject — articulated in his landmark treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art — launched a revolution that defined modernism

Jamini Roy (1887–1972) was one of India's most original modern artists and a pioneer of the nationalist art movement

but before his Bauhaus years he produced a small body of commercial illustration work — including this extraordinary Abrikosov Chocolate advertisement

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