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Kurt Seligmann

Kurt Seligmann (1900 - 1962) was active/lived in New York.  Kurt Seligmann is known for Surreal narrative images, etcher.

Surreal artist, Kurt Seligmann worked in various media, drawings, and prints over a period of four decades and in several hundred works. Seligmann's work typically "depicts a kind of dance macabre in which anthropomorphic figures - comprised of an amalgamation of armour, heraldic devices, ribbons, cloth, helmets, feathers, bone and ceremonial paraphernalia - cavort in unknown rituals in darkly cavernous, yet undetermined, space (Stephen Robeson Miller)."

His surreal art expressed his own "personality, background and temperament" along with the time and place. An "age in which he and other Surrealist artists of his generation responded to new developments in psychoanalysis, exploring irrational and unconscious sides of the human psyche in a world seemingly gone mad with conflict on an unprecedented scale in two world wars (Stephen Robeson Miller)."

Seligmann's work is also inspired by the "imagery of the Pre-Reformation artists of his Swiss homeland. There exists a kinsh   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6784 characters.]  Artist bio

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