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Museums page for Kurt Seligmann ((1900 - 1962)), known for Surreal narrative images, etcher. Showing 18 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1900 Basel, Switzerland - 1962 Middletown, New York. 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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
Kurt Seligmann - Artist Info
About Kurt Seligmann: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (18)
All MuseumsBibliotheque Nationale de France, BNF
Quai François-Mauriac
Paris, FranceBuffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102University Galleries, Illinois State University
Uptown Station
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103
Normal, IL 61761University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271