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The Eiffel Tower series of Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) is a cycle of paintings and drawings of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel. The series was painted in an emerging Orphist style, an art movement co-founded by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka that added bright colors and increased abstraction to ...
The Eiffel Tower was then the tallest building in the world, and was considered the French symbol par excellence of modernity, especially at the beginning of the 20th century. Delaunay's Champs de Mars: The Red Tower is primarily intended to radiate the power and dynamism of the modernity and innovation at this time. Its red tower rises like a ...
In 1909, Delaunay began to paint a series of studies of the city of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower series. The following year, he married Terk, and the couple settled in a studio apartment in Paris, where their son Charles was born in January 1911.
Usage on de.wikipedia.org Eiffelturm (Bilderserie von Delaunay) Usage on fr.wikipedia.org La Tour Eiffel (Delaunay, 1926) Usage on www.wikidata.org Q19018536; Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Robert Delaunay; Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Musée National d'Art Moderne
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Delaunay when he created this painting series had already left representation. However, some references are still visible here, like the almost undetectable presence of the Eiffel Tower, in the green colour, at the center.
Robert and Sonia Delaunay where at the resort of San Sebastián, in Spain, when the First World War overtook them by surprise. They remained in Spain , staying for some months in Madrid . They decided to move to Portugal , settling in the northern village of Vila do Conde , near Porto , where they lived from June 1915 to March 1916.