Fin-de-siècle Europe: An Era of Nervousness and Angst History 104 / March 22, 2013.

Fin-de-siècle Europe:An Era of Nervousness and Angst

History 104 / March 22, 2013

Marie Curie(1867-1934)

Max Planck(1858-1947)

Albert Einstein(1879-1955)

Sigmund Freud(1856-1939)

Herbert Spencer(1820-1903)

Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)

Vitalism in music:Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (1913)

Post-impressionism: the forms behind the reality

Paul Cezanne, View of Auvers

(1874)

Cézanne, The Mount of St.Victoria (1897-98)

Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890)

Vincent’s chair with pipe(1888)

Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles (1889)

Cubism: reality is

multi-perspectival

Georges Braque, Candlestick and Playing Cards

on a Table(1910)

Pablo Picasso,Les Demoiselles

d’Avignon(1907)

Wassily Kandinsky,

Gorge Improvisation

(1914)

Italian futurism: an embrace of technology and motion

Ludwig Meidner, Burning City (1913)