Wenzel August Hablik
Starry nights weren't depicted only by Vincent van Gogh. Today, we present the one painted by Wenzel Hablik, a painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, and craftsman, associated with German Expressionism.
At the beginning of the 20th century, science and spiritualism converged in efforts to grasp the mysteries of the universe, producing yet another form of mystical landscape. Painters drew inspiration from scientific popularizers in Europe—among them the astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion—and began to envision outer space as a realm for the universal imagination. In the United States, Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe carried their spiritual and stylistic experiments further, rendering clouds almost to the point of abstraction in colors suggestive of interstellar space. Edvard Munch imagined an exploding sun as the final star to cast its light upon the earth before dissolving into the cosmos. Taking a more rational approach, Hablik shows the cosmos as an ordered, architecturally structured but dazzling world.
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