Wunderkammern or chambers of wonders and natural history cabinets were two of the collecting spaces par excellence of the 16th and 17th centuries in central Europe. These spaces…
Having got to know the collecting space par excellence of the early Renaissance, the studiolo, we move on to the two spaces typical of the 16th century: the archaeological cortile and the gallery. The…
Ernst Fuchs (Vienna 1930 - 2015) stood out early on for his virtuosity as a draughtsman. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he met his future colleagues from the…
Collecting in 15th century Italy can't be understood without the space that held those collections: the studiolo. This kind of private space appeared alongside the birth of…
At Artelista we work to encourage art collecting, and we thought it would be interesting to begin this series of posts in which we'll take a brief tour through the History of…
Johann Muschik, the Viennese historian and critic, linked fantastic art to the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, founded in 1948 by a group of painters mentored by Albert Paris von…
My name is Jose Miguel Alguer Romero, a child of emigration. I was born in Bremen (Germany) on 30 July 1965, to a father from Valencia and a mother from Huelva. At 8 months old I came back to Spain, to…
I was born in a small town in Extremadura, Higuera de la Serena. I spent my childhood there with my six brothers and sisters. I remember one day in particular, at my grandmother María's house, I was very…