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Cologne Cathedral, high res caption taken on 30.03.14. Its two huge 145 meters high spires give it the largest façade of any church in the world. The construction works started on the XIII century and finished on the XIX. It was one the few buildings in Cologne that survived the Second World War. The 9 meters sculptures on top of the two towers were placed on 1880, making the cathedral to be the highest building in the world at that time.

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Marcella, 1910. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (left) and Max Pechstein (right) portrayed the young girl on the same day in the same room at the same time, most probably in Moritzburg. Kirchner's version is located in the Brücke Museum (Berlin) and Pechstein's one is part of the Haubrich Collection, to be found in the Ludwig Museum (Cologne).

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In 2013, during the set-up of an exhibition dedicated to the private collection of Josef Haubrich (1889-1961) to be held at Cologne's Ludwig Museum, three new paintings were discovered on the back of existing works from Max Pechstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Alekséi von Jawlensky. Above these lines Kirchner's Weiblicher Halbakt mit Hut, 1911 (Nude with hat) (left), and the discovered Fränzi in Wiese, 1910 on the back (right)

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…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg (via classicalliterature)

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Günther Forg - In Memoriam (5.12.1952 - 5.12.2013)

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Scanned original cover of The Blue Rider (der Blaue Reiter), the book edited in Munich in 1912 by Vasily Kandisky and Franz Marc. The Blue Rider was never a group of painters neither an art association whatsoever. It was a spiritual guide (so-called Almanach) created in Munich by Franz Marc (1880-1916) and Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) that originated the first examples of contemporary abstract paintings. It is undoubtedly one of the most influential art books ever written and, according to Kandinsky's later notes, its creation was surrounded by such an spiritual intensity that made the book to be almost a kind of magic. There are a very few copies from the original edition still to be seen in book fairs and  old book shops. Its value is around 7000 €.

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Georg Baselitz (Deutschbaselitz, 1938) first masterpiece is The Big Night Down the Drain (große nacht im eimer), unveiled in 1963 at Baselitz’s first solo exhibition of a gallery in Berlin that had been founded by Michael Werner and Benjamin Katz, the latter a young Jewish artist and photographer who had miraculously survived the Holocaust in Belgium as a boy and returned to Germany after the war.

The show, which contained more than fifty provocative paintings, watercolours and drawings, provoked outrage among its visitors, many of whom considered the works obscene. The Big Night Down the Drain was confiscated and Baselitz, Werner and Katz were fined.

The artist recently stated in public that perhaps he never has and never will make a finer painting than this. The artist was not making a scandal for its own sake, but, rather, confronting postwar Germany – which he had found too ready to hide behind bland abstraction, too keen to avoid societal and psychological issues – with his own reality.

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The Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) was a marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. The League subsequently renamed itself the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD). Its period of greatest activity was during the German Revolution of 1918, when it sought to incite a revolution by circulating the newspaper Spartacus Letters. Both Luxemburg and Liebknecht were murdered by the so called Freikorps, backed by SPD (Socialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) members. These posters are the reaction to the betrayal of the German Revolution carried through the socialists.

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Fränzi Fehrmann, 1910. This young girl was the muse of Expressionist master Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) who made numerous portraits of her during the first years of his career, back in Dresden (Germany), where the association of painters Brücke was founded, thus originating the first european advangarde of the XX century. The green-faced portrait is one of Kirchner's masterpieces and it is part of the Thyssen collection, permanently exhibited in Madrid.

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On which side are you and your art staying, dude? (1973). Jörg Immendorf (1945 - 2007), German painter, neo-expresionist, maoist and one of the so-called Neue Wilden (New Wilds), developed a series of paintings during the 80s criticizing self satisfaction art and asking the artists to take the streets and fight along with workers for their rights. According to Artnet.com, the painting is for sale today.

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Van Gogh´s Self Portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin (1888) was seized by the nazis and auctioned in Lucern in 1939. Today it is located at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusets.

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Head of Mrs. Toni Freeden by Rudolf Belling at the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) nazi exhibition in 1937. The head ended up in the hands of the nazi prominent art collector Bernhard Böhmer and was found in his house in Rostock after he committed suicide at the end of the war. Today it can be contemplated at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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American soldier watches over art works seized by the nazis and storaged in the church of Ellingen (Germany).

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American soldiers watch over Manet's "Winter garden", seized by the nazis and found in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany. The painting hangs in the walls of the Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin) today.

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If you want to create art for the sake of calling yourself an artist, then you're hopelessly mundane.

Si pretendes crear arte solo para poder llamarte artista, eres un mierda.