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Description: Virtuous Germania (La Vertueuse Germania)

TitleVirtuous Germania (La Vertueuse Germania)

Creator named’Angel, Léo

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1917

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationMusée de l'Histoire Contemporaine, Paris

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPrints, French--20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945--AtrocitiesAllegories

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I. “In the nightmare through which we are passing”

Kenneth E. Silver

Description: Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War,...

Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914–1925

ON 2 AUGUST 1914, the day France declared war on Germany, Pablo Picasso, who was vacationing in Avignon, escorted his friends Georges Braque and André Derain to the railroad station for the journey to Paris, where the...

Author

Kenneth E. Silver

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-27

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Chapter subject tags:Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--History--20th centuryNationalism and art--France--History--20th centuryArt and society--France--Paris--20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918Painting, French--20th centuryGris, Juan, 1887-1927Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Art dealers--FranceCubism (Art)

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