Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Tavern

Brandenburger Tor

Potsdamer Platz

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John Singleton Copley - Watson and the Shark (1778)

The painting is based on a real attack that took place in Havana harbour in 1749. Brook Watson was a 14-year-old orphan, serving as a crew member on a trading ship. While swimming alone in the harbour, he suffered multiple attacks by a single shark. On its first attack, the shark bit off a chunk of flesh from Watson's right leg below the calf; on the second attack, it removed his foot at the ankle. The crew of a small boat, who had been waiting to escort their captain to shore, fought off the shark and rescued Watson. His leg was amputated below the knee, but he went on to live a full life, including a term as Lord Mayor of London. The attack is the earliest shark attack to be fully documented.

Otto Dix

To Beauty

The Salon

Newborn baby on Hands

Rudolf Schlichter

From one New Objectivist to the next, here's Rudolf Schlichter...

Tingel-tangel

Hausvog

George Grosz

I featured Grosz a while back but don't feel I did him justice with my image selection, not because they weren't good paintings but because the jpg quality was very very poor, these are better.

"My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society." -Grosz

Dusk

The White Slaver

Beauty, Thee Will I Praise

Johannes Itten - Der Bachsänger

Andreas Feininger

This morning I put up some of his father's paintings, so now here's some pretty nice photography from Andreas Feininger