Art of the 20th Century
A Revolution in the Arts
Kurt Seligmann
Kurt Seligmann
(b Basle, 20 July 1900; d Sugar Loaf, NY, 2 Jan 1962).
American painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and writer of Swiss birth. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (1920) and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1927). From this training he drew upon two dominant influences, combining a predilection for the illusionistic deep space and the clear vibrant colour of the Italian tradition with the fantastic narratives explored by earlier Swiss artists such as Johann Heinrich Füseli, Ferdinand Hodler, Urs Graf and Niklaus Manuel Deutsch.
The Pod
1959
Metamorphosis II
1958
Man in Castle I (Envelopment II)
1958
Turquerie
1958
Metamorphosis
1958
Untitled
Leda
Corn Spirit
Apparition
1944
Baphomet I
1947
Phantom of the Past
1942
Untitled
Les guerriers
1948
La carnaval
