Kurt Thorandt, Still Life, Oil on Plywood for sale at Pamono

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Still Life by Kurt Thorandt

Kurt Thorandt was a visual artist. Kurt Thorandt was born in 1902 and died in 1985. Artists like Halina Ostrowska-Grabska, Ragnar Gsta Leopold Sandberg, Ivan Titov, Filippo Tallone, and Greta Liljebladh-Lysen were also born in 1902.

Further Biographical Context for Kurt Thorandt
Born in 1902, Kurt Thorandt was largely influenced by the 1920s. The 1920s and 1930s saw continued development and evolution of the key innovations of the first years of the twentieth century. To have this time as the formative period for an artist was to be surrounded by innovative practitioners of the visual arts. It was also a time of recovery and introspection after the horrors of the First World War, which saw important shifts in politics. Marxism was a prevalent political ideology which was also tremendously influential amid artists and their communities. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919, and became an essential place surrounding notions in favour of the unification of art, craft and design disciplines an idea that became known as the Gesamtkunstwerk. Surrealism came to be the central expressive mode of the 1920s, and was aided by the liberalism of Germanys Weimar Republic, which was an environment that allowed for remarkable creative blossoming. important artistic developments included a kind of expressive characteristic which was exemplified by Brancusi, Modigliani and Soutine in Paris. Surrealism advanced throughout the 1920s and 1930s, with a focus on the human unconscious – a essential idea of Freudian theory. Key Surrealist artists include Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux. Due to its cultural importance, much of this ideology spread internationally.