He was a Canadian artist who lived and studied in England. He founded Vorticism. He published the art journal Blast, which attacked the sentimentality of older art forms. From 1916 until 1918, he served as a British battery officer on the Western Front, and many of his paintings reflected his experiences there. His most famous painting was A Battery Shelled.
He was an English artist who was educated at the Slade School in London. Pre-WWI he was a cubist artist, but he came into contact with Percy Wyndham Lewis' vorticist work and his journal Blast shortly before the war. When war broke out, Nevinson, a pacifist, joined the Red Cross and served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1916, when he came down with rheumatic fever and was forced to leave. While recuperating, he painted a great deal of pictures reflecting his pacifist views and his experiences. He became a member of the War Propaganda Bureau and was sent back to the front to paint another sixty pictures. His most famous war painting is Machine Gun.
He was a British painter who was educated at the Slade School. He was a good friend of Percy Wyndham Lewis, and was one of the founders of Vorticism. He enlisted in the British army, as a gunner, in 1916. In 1917 he became an official war artist. He was commissioned to do many paintings, and one of his most famous is The First German Gas Attack.
He was a French painter that was educated in Paris. In the early 1900s he became interested in Expressionism, however by 1907 he began to paint more abstractly. In 1909 he began Cubism with Pablo Picasso, and developed a friendship with him which continued until he left for the war. He entered the French army in 1914, but was wounded in 1917 and returned home for recovery. During his recovery he transformed his experience into paintings.
He was a French artist who left Paris to fight in the beginning of the war. In 1918, he was gassed during the war, and he died in 1925 because he never fully recovered. He painted scenes from the war.
He served in the French army and almost died during a gas attack. After his service in the war (1917), he began painting tube forms of machines.
Before the war in 1905, he started "The Bridge." From 1915 to 1918, he served in the Red Cross. Heckel hated war, and made many lithographs and paintings of it.
Beckmann joined the military in 1915, but he was discharged due to a psychological meltdown. After the war, his art became much more expressive and simpler.
He was in the German army during World War I untl he suffered a mental and physical collapse. He took a year to recover, and his artwork was based on his war experiences.
He was a German artist whose early work were often of Russian beggars and farmers, and they demonstrated the difficulty of human life. He originally supported Germany in the war. He joined the infantry and served for two months; at that point he changed his mind about the glorification of war and began to create memorials and sculptures that were anti-war.
He was an Italian artist born to American parents. He studied in France and Italy, but in 1884 his painting Madame X upset the Parisian salon and he was forced to move to England. He then began painting portraits. In 1918 he was hired by a cooperation between Britain and the US to paint scenes from the front. He visited a casualty station in France, where he saw soldiers injured by mustard gas. This gave him his idea for his most famous painting, Gassed.
He was a British painter that studied in London. During the war he enlisted in Artists' Rifles, a part of the British army. He was sent to the western front and by 1916 became a lieutenant. During that period he sketched different scenes depicting life in the trenches. In 1917 he was injured in a non-military accident and was forced to return to London. While recuperating he turned many of his sketches into paintings. In 1918 he was recruited into the War Propaganda Bureau. He returned to the Western Front to complete more paintings. Although he liked art, he did not like what he considered to be a messenger from the front. One of his most famous paintings is The Mule Track.
He was a British artists who in 1916 was terribly distressed by the immense losses suffered by the young generation fighting on the Western Front. He painted Youth Mourning as a response.
In 1916, British artist Dodd was commissioned by the War Propagranda Bureau as Britain's official artist on the Western Front. He produced thirty portraits of senior war officials for the rest of the war.
He was a black infantryman in the 369th Black Doughboys. He was partially paralyzed in his right arm and sent home. He discovered that he could paint despite enormous pain, and eventually produced seventy-five paintings in the last six years of his life. His most famous work was Shell Holes and Observation Balloon, Champagne Sector.
Kollwitz was a German painter whose son was killed early in the war on the Western Front. She began a series of paintings depicting the war's effect on women. One of her more well-known paintings was Widows and Orphans.
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