In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
German painter Alo Altripp was labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis, and German troops closed a 1933 exhibition of his paintings in Essen. But when the Gestapo ordered him to cease painting, Altripp continued making art, working in secret and using whatever materials he could find. This work is an example of art informel , a movement characterized by gestural expression and an undermining of solid form. Viewed through the lens of history, it pulses with the blood, fire, and sorrow of oppression and war.
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Wols — Color Motif
Wall painting
Arthur Dove — Silver Tanks
Wols — Bird's-Eye View
Charles Demuth — Bermuda Landscape No. 2
John Singer Sargent — A Spanish Madonna
Barton Church — Girl in a Chair
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
John Macallan Swan — Polar Bears
Amedeo Modigliani — Pink Nude—Caryatid (recto); Caryatid (ve
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Woman's Head with Red Hat
Isaac Israels — Twee meisjes in de sneeuw