Dušan Nikolić

Dissatisfied with contemporary culture and artistic trends, Symbolist artists believed art should synthesize form and feeling, reality and inner subjectivity.

Félicien Rops' art is full of satiric, demonic, and erotic themes, supposed to hold a mirror to contemporary society's repressive and hypocritical standards and morals.

Franz von Stuck is best known for transforming traditional, biblical, and mythological subjects into symbols of modern life during the fin-de-siècle.

Ambiguous and often dark Symbolist art depicts a highly artificial world of fantasy, myth, and dreams.

Franz von Stuck’s art, with sinister elements of Symbolism and decorativeness of Art Nouveau, made him one of the most celebrated German artists at the turn of the 20th century.

Between traditional academic and emerging modern art, new spiritual currents in European culture gave way to the Symbolism movement, initially in poetry and later in visual arts.

Manuscript illumination under the rulers of the Carolingian dynasty and its turn toward classical culture marked an important point in the development of Western European art.

From the 10th century onward, medieval Christians anxiously prepared for the Last Judgment. In doing so, they built some of the most magnificent European cathedrals.

From the late Roman period across Carolingian architecture to the international styles of Romanesque and Gothic, medieval architecture shows a great variety that is rarely recognized.

Though often forgotten, Darwinism had a significant influence not only in the natural sciences but also art. It defined how artists like Max Klinger viewed the world around them.

Engaging with social criticism, human psychology, and the subjective self, Max Klinger’s art paved the way for modern art movements such as Expressionism, Surrealism, and New Objectivity.

Max Klinger is one of the best-known Symbolist artists of the 19th century in Germany, whose art paved the way for future movements of modern art.